Main entry:

Lindgren, James Michael, 1950-

Title & Author:

Preserving historic New England : preservation, progressivism, and the remaking of memory / James M. Lindgren.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

Description:

xii, 244 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index.
1. It Belongs to Men Like You: William Sumner Appleton and the Makings of a Preservationist -- 2. A Constant Incentive to Patriotic Citizenship: Progressivism and the Remaking of Memory -- 3. Preservation Must Depend on Private Initiative: The Founding of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities -- 4. A Mecca for Tourists and a Joy to All: Preserving Antiquities as Symbols and Documents -- 5. A Gospel of Further Acquisitions: Defining a Preservation Movement -- 6. To Transform Dead Property into a Valuable Asset: Destruction, Development, and SPNEA's Paradox -- 7. Do Not Tear the House Down!!: Establishing a Scientific Method in Preservation -- 8. Reminders of the Dignified Life of Our Forefathers: Presenting History Through Material Culture.

Summary:

"During a period when the Colonial Revival and progressive movements held sway, Yankees asserted their influence through campaigns to redefine the meaning of their Anglo-American forebears. As part of the reaction, the modern preservation movement was founded by William Sumner Appleton, Jr., a privileged, old-blooded Bostonian. Resisting not simply this avalanche of change but the amateurish romanticism of fellow antiquaries, Appleton founded the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities in 1910." "While examining the SPNEA in the context of progressivism, Preserving Historic New England focuses on its redefinition of preservation to fit the methodology of science, the economy of capitalism, and the aestheticism of architecture. In so doing, preservation not only became a profession defined by those male worlds, but it also remade Yankee memory to accord with the modern corporate order."--Jacket.

Resources:
1995.
Publisher description
Publisher description

ISBN:

0195093631 (acid-free paper)
9780195093636 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities History.
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities Histoire.
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Historic preservation New England History.
Patrimoine historique Nouvelle-Angleterre.
Préservation historique Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire.
Historic preservation
Denkmalpflege
New England
Neuengland
Historic buildings Conservation
United States

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 244361
Call No.: BIB 174043
Status: Available