Presence of the past : a history of the preservation movement in the United States before Williamsburg / by Charles B. Hosmer, Jr.

Main entry:

Hosmer, Charles Bridgham, 1932-

Title & Author:

Presence of the past : a history of the preservation movement in the United States before Williamsburg / by Charles B. Hosmer, Jr.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Putnam, [1965]

Description:

386 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-372) and index.
Foreword / Walter Muir Whitehill -- Introduction -- The Earliest Attempts: The Pattern for the Future -- The Shadow of Mount Vernon -- The South and Its Great Men -- The Middle Atlantic States: Restoring Memorials of the Revolution -- New England, the Home of Militant Private Preservation Organizations -- Preservation Work in the Far West -- National Preservation Organizations Working Locally -- Monticello: the Second Mount Vernon -- Antiquaries, Architects and Museum Directors -- William Sumner Appleton and the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities -- Criteria for Selecting Buildings Worthy of Preservation -- Techniques of Restoration -- The Economics or Preservation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Also issued online.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

Subject:

Monuments Conservation and restoration United States.
Historic buildings Conservation and restoration United States.
Architecture Conservation and restoration.
History.
Monuments Conservation and restoration.
Historic buildings United States.
Architecture.
Monuments Conservation et restauration.
Architecture Conservation et restauration.
Monuments historiques États-Unis.
Monuments Conservation et restauration États-Unis.
Monuments historiques Conservation et restauration États-Unis.
Histoire.
history (discipline)
architecture (discipline)
Historic buildings
Historic buildings Conservation and restoration
United States

Added entries:

Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905-1978.

History of the preservation movement in the United States before Williamsburg

Holdings:

Location: Library main 18850
Call No.: PO13945; ID:87-B6117
Status: Available

Location: Library main 18849
Call No.: 8929; ID:87-B6117
Status: Available

Location: Library main 18848
Call No.: 667; ID:87-B6117
Status: Available

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