North Carolina Architecture

Catherine W. Bishir

Description

This award-winning, lavishly illustrated history displays the wide range of North Carolina's architectural heritage, from colonial times to the beginning of World War II. North Carolina Architecture addresses the state's grand public and private buildings that have become familiar landmarks, but it also focuses on the quieter beauty of more common structures: farmhouses, barns, urban dwellings, log houses, mills, factories, and churches. These buildings, like the people who created them and who have used them, are central to the character of North Carolina.

Now in a convenient new format, this portable edition of North Carolina Architecture retains all of the text of the original edition as well as hundreds of halftones by master photographer Tim Buchman. Catherine Bishir's narrative analyzes construction and design techniques and locates the structures in their cultural, political, and historical contexts. This extraordinary history of North Carolina's built world presents a unique and valuable portrait of the state.

Sujets

• historic preservation
• buildings
• Architecture

Informations

• Publié par: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date de parution: 19 mars 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798890877352
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 49 Mo

Extrait

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in Architecture & the Decorative Arts

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North Carolina Architecture         .      

Photography by Tim Buchman

Published forThe Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina, Inc.,

byThe University of North Carolina PressChapel Hill

In Memory of Marion Stedman Covington, –

The Historic Preservation Foundation acknowledges with thanks the cooperation and support of the State Historic Preserva- tion Office, Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources

Originally published for The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina, Inc., by The University of North Carolina Press in . Portable edition ©  The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina, Inc. All rights reserved

Set in Scala and Mantinia types by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Manufactured in the United States of America

The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bishir, Catherine W. North Carolina architecture / Catherine W. Bishir; photography by Tim Buchman.— Portable ed. p. cm. — (The Richard Hampton Jenrette series in architecture and the decorative arts) Companion to the original volume, published . Includes bibliographical references and index. --- (cloth: alk. paper) — ---(pbk.: alk. paper) . Architecture—North Carolina. I. Title. II. Richard Hampton Jenrette series in architecture & the decorative arts. .  '.—dc 

Quote, page , fromYou Can’t Go Home Againby Thomas Wolfe. Copyright , , , ,  by Maxwell Perkins as Executor of the Estate of Thomas Wolfe. Copyright renewed ©  by Paul Gitlin. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Photographs: State Capitol, Raleigh, –, House of Commons (p. ii); Bellamy Mansion, Wilmington, – (p. vi); Hayes Plantation, Chowan County, – (p. xvi).

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Foreword vii

Preface xvii

Preface to the Portable Edition xxiii

 The Colonial Period, – 

 The Federal Period, – 

 The Antebellum Period, – 

 The Late Nineteenth Century, – 

 The Early Twentieth Century, – 

Notes 

Selected Bibliography 

The Historic Preservation Foundation of

North Carolina, Inc. 

Map: North Carolina Counties 

Index 

 .   , Executive Director The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina, Inc.

Of the many suggestions for ways to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina, Inc., the publication of this book was a natural choice. After all, one catalyst for the founding of the organization, originally named the North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Antiquities, was the publication ofOld Homes and Gardens of North Carolina, under the auspices of the Garden Club of North Carolina, by the University of North Carolina Press in . That book and the  volume,Early Architecture of North Carolina, also published by the University of North Carolina Press, became touchstones for preservationists in North Carolina. They influenced which buildings North Carolinians cher- ished and why. Almost fifty years later, the need was compelling for a new look at North Carolina’s historic buildings: not a replacement for those earlier books or a new version of them, but a book for our own times. Preservation is now more inclusive than exclusive, and the preservationist’s interest is drawn to the humble as well as the grand. This new perspective on North Carolina’s architectural history is very much in that spirit. Rather than simply identify the most outstanding land- marks in North Carolina’s past, this book presents in many cases represen- tative buildings which may evoke images of hundreds more in communities across the state. It is the hope of the Preservation Foundation that this book will stimulate a passion for preserving the whole spectrum of North Caro- lina’s history. The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina, Inc., is grateful to the following patrons who shared the vision of this book. Through their generous contributions, it can be enjoyed by all those interested in preserving North Carolina’s rich heritage for the benefit of present and future genera- tions.

The Cannon Foundation, Inc., Concord (Special Gift)

American Association for State and Local History, Nashville, Tennessee Newton Duke Angier, Flat Rock and Durham Anonymous Donors

Charles H. Babcock, Jr., Winston-Salem The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Durham John and Catherine Bishir, Raleigh Mr. and Mrs. Ben Mayo Boddie, Rocky Mount Mr. and Mrs. Nick B. Boddie, Rocky Mount Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kennedy Boggs, Charlotte Mr. Sion A. Boney, Greensboro Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Boykin III, Wilson Mr. and Mrs. John Bratton, Raleigh The Brewer Foundation, Rocky Mount Claudia R. and Gordon L. Brown, Raleigh George R. Brown/Dennis Cudd, Charlotte The Broyhill Family Foundation, Inc., Lenoir Joseph Bryan, Jr., Greensboro Joseph M. Bryan, Sr., Greensboro Mrs. Thomas Bullard, Flat Rock Esther Hatch and C. D. Burnette Family for Southerland-Burnette House, Mount Olive Robert P. and Norma D. Burns, Raleigh Mr. Paul F. Callaway, Greensboro Capital Area Preservation, Inc., Raleigh Carolista Jewelry Designers, Nags Head Dr. Gertrude S. Carraway, New Bern Michael P. Carson/Ronald W. Steigerwalt, Ph.D., Hertford Dr. and Mrs. Robert Cerwin, Raleigh Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Properties Commission, Charlotte Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Cheshire, Jr., Raleigh E. L. Clark/The Clark Family Trust, Durham Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Clement, Salisbury Elizabeth W. and Benjamin Cone, Jr., Greensboro Mr. and Mrs. James M. Corcoran, New Bern Bruce Cotten Fund, North Carolina Collection, Chapel Hill Mrs. Marion Stedman Covington, Greensboro James Ruffin Creech, Rocky Mount Ronald and Sharon Criss, Raleigh Lillian F. Crosland (Mrs. John), Charlotte Mrs. Robert Harris Daniel, Greenville Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daniels, Jr., Raleigh Davidson County Historical Association, Lexington Gwendolyn Picklesimer Davis, Raleigh

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Ruth Johnston Davis, Wilson Todd W. and Patricia S. Dickinson, Hillsborough Mr. G. Wilson Douglas, Jr., Winston-Salem Duke University, Durham Durham Research Properties Associates, Durham Mrs. Kathleen Bryan Edwards, Greensboro The Federation of N.C. Historical Societies, Raleigh First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Raleigh David C. Fischetti, P.E., Cary Jenny and R. B. Fitch, Chapel Hill Mrs. Henry A. Foscue/Mr. James E. Foscue, High Point Mishew Smith Fouts, Durham Mr. and Mrs. G. Scott Francis, Charlotte Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Gaylor III, Goldsboro Renee Gledhill-Earley, Raleigh Michael and Donna Goswick, Kittrell Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas Graham, Raleigh Mr. and Mrs. James A. Gray, Winston-Salem Thomas A. Gray, Winston-Salem Greensboro Historical Museum, Greensboro Harry H. Harkins, Jr., Atlanta, Georgia Felix Harvey Foundation, Kinston Haskins, Rice, Savage & Pearce, P.A., Architects, Raleigh C. W. Hill, Westfield Mr. George Watts Hill, Chapel Hill Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hinshaw, Sr., Durham W. Banks Hinshaw, Jr., and Robin E. Markle, Lake City, Florida Historic Burke Foundation, Inc., Morganton Historic Flat Rock, Inc., Flat Rock The Historic Preservation Society of Durham Mrs. Eleanor Bass Howard, Tarboro J. Myrick Howard, Raleigh Robert C., Jr., and Betty Wales Howison, Raleigh Catherine W. and Karl G. Hudson, Jr., Raleigh Mr. and Mrs. James F. Hurley III, Salisbury Mr. and Mrs. H. Gray Hutchison, Raleigh Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, Southern Pines Wayland L. Jenkins, Jr., Aulander Mr. Richard H. Jenrette, New York, New York Mr. and Mrs. Earl Johnson, Jr., Raleigh

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