Louisiana buildings, 1720-1940 : the historic American buildings survey / edited by Jessie Poesch and Barbara SoRelle Bacot.

Title & Author:

Louisiana buildings, 1720-1940 : the historic American buildings survey / edited by Jessie Poesch and Barbara SoRelle Bacot.

Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1997]
©1997

Description:

x, 425 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates (color) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-394) and index.
Introduction / Jessie Poesch -- 1. Beginnings: Creole Architecture for the Louisiana Setting / Eugene Darwin Cizek -- 2. New Orleans After the Fires / Barbara SoRelle Bacot -- 3. The Folk Architecture of the Appalachian Uplanders / Jonathan Fricker -- 4. The Plantation / Barbara SoRelle Bacot -- 5. Urban Growth, 1815-1880: Diverse Tastes -- Greek, Gothic, and Italianate / Joan G. Caldwell -- 6. The Coming of Mechanization / Jonathan Fricker -- 7. City and Country, 1880-1915: New Impulses and New Tastes / Ellen Weiss -- 8. The Modern Era, 1915-1940 / Karen Kingsley -- 9. Why Historic Preservation? / Eugene Darwin Cizek -- The Louisiana HABS Catalog / Julie H. McCollam.

Summary:

The only New Deal program to continue into the 1990s, the Historic American Buildings Survey has through the years drawn attention to the historic and artistic significance of buildings that contemporary taste might otherwise have ignored. Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940 makes easily available the fruit of HABS's important and enduring efforts to record Louisiana's architectural heritage.
An invaluable part of Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940 is the alphabetical listing of HABS structures in Louisiana both by familiar name and by parish. The listing by parish gives the location, the date of construction, the architect when known, and the current status of each building. It also presents drawings or photographs of many of the structures, over three hundred pictures in all.

ISBN:

0807120545 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780807120545 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Louisiana.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural Louisiana.
Historic buildings Louisiana.
Architecture Louisiane.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux Louisiane.
Architecture
Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Historic buildings
Gebouwen.
Louisiana

Added entries:

Poesch, Jessie J., editor.
Bacot, Barbara SoRelle, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 190837
Call No.: ID NA730.L8.L68; ID:96-B806
Status: Available

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