9781623497941-1623497949-All the Houses Were Painted White: Historic Homes of the Texas Golden Crescent (Volume 21) (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities)

All the Houses Were Painted White: Historic Homes of the Texas Golden Crescent (Volume 21) (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities)

ISBN-13: 9781623497941
ISBN-10: 1623497949
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Format: Hardcover 196 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781623497941
ISBN-10: 1623497949
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Format: Hardcover 196 pages

Summary

All the Houses Were Painted White: Historic Homes of the Texas Golden Crescent (Volume 21) (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities) (ISBN-13: 9781623497941 and ISBN-10: 1623497949), was published by Texas A&M University Press in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Architectural (Equipment, Techniques & Reference, Photography & Video, Historic Preservation, Architecture, Decoration & Ornament, State & Local, United States History) books. You can easily purchase or rent All the Houses Were Painted White: Historic Homes of the Texas Golden Crescent (Volume 21) (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Architectural books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.27.

Description

Many of the historic houses in and around the town of Victoria, Texas, were built between 1875 and 1910 by immigrant owners. From 1973 to 1975, with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rick Gardner traveled throughout the region, taking photographs of these historic homes. Gardner relied on his own instincts and guidance from knowledgeable locals as to where he should aim his lens. This book is an appreciative glimpse at what these vernacular houses looked like a century after their construction.

Gardner has teamed up with Victoria historian and preservationist Gary Dunnam to present these rich images along with brief historical sketches of the houses and, where possible, the persons who occupied them when they were newly constructed. The result is an understated and elegant suggestion of what life may have been like for the merchants, bankers, agriculturalists, and others who built and lived in these homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Designed to appeal to those with a love for old houses and especially for the preservation of historic structures, All the Houses Were Painted White offers its readers a stately appreciation of these homes and their place in the South Texas landscape. It is also a tribute to the architects, owners, and anonymous craftspeople who built the houses—to their vision, skill, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, and endurance.

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