Main entry:

Lyon, Elizabeth Anne Mack, author. aut

Title & Author:

Atlanta architecture : the Victorian heritage / Elizabeth Anne Mack Lyon.

Publication:

[Atlanta] : Atlanta Historical Society, [1976]
Book Design, Roy P. Frangiamore
Typography, Merck Typesetting, Inc.
Printing, Williams Printing Company

Description:

112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held by the Atlanta Historical Society at McElreath Hall, May 4-Oct. 31, 1976.
"Dr. Elizabeth M. Lyon's research was the basis for this entire project... concentrated study of Atlanta's architecture began as work on a master's these at Emory University ... dissertation in 1971 ... survey and preservation planning work for the city of Altanta and for the state"--Page 5
Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-110) and index.
Preface / Catherine L. Frangiamore, Curator, Atlanta Historical Society -- Acknowledgments -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Atlanta architecture: The Victorian Heritage: Antebellum Atlanta: Commercial center little resembling towns of the older South ; Reconstruction: Rapid rebuilding in new Victorian styles ; The elegant eighties: Picturesque streets created by high Victorian structures ; The nineties: skyscrapers and the World's Fair ; Turn of the Century: Ascendance of the classifcal and historically "pure" -- Epiloque -- Selected objects in the exhibition -- Appendices: 1. Major Atlanta architects: Introductory biographies -- II. Terra cotta in Atlanta architecture -- Glossaries: I. Architectural styles -- II. Architectural terms

Subject:

Architecture, Victorian Georgia Atlanta Exhibitions.
Historic buildings Georgia Atlanta Exhibitions.
Architecture victorienne Géorgie (État) Atlanta Expositions.
Architecture, Victorian
Buildings
Historic buildings
Atlanta (Ga.) Buildings, structures, etc. Exhibitions.
Georgia Atlanta

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Lynn, Catherine, writer of preface.
Atlanta Historical Society, publisher, sponsor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 3227
Call No.: W15135; ID:85-B3865
Status: Available