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  • Landmark Architecture of Palm Beach

    by Barbara D. Hoffstot ...
    Palm Beach is a remarkably small town to be so famous; its population is only a little over 10,000. Nor is it an old town: the oldest extant building dates from about 1885, and the town itself was not incorporated until after 1900. What has granted Palm Beach its fame is the same combination of elements that made Bath famous in the 18th century: a very few clear-sighted men—they can be counted on ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Landmark Architecture of Palm Beach

    by Barbara D. Hoffstot ...
    Palm Beach is a remarkably small town to be so famous; its population is only a little over 10,000. Nor is it an old town: the oldest extant building dates from about 1885, and the town itself was not incorporated until after 1900. What has granted Palm Beach its fame is the same combination of elements that made Bath famous in the 18th century: a very few clear-sighted men—they can be counted on ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Flatiron

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  • Hidden Johannesburg

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  • Chinese Bridges

    Living Architecture From China's Past

    by Ronald G. Knapp ...
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    Practical Crossings?Nostalgic Icons

    by Terry E. Miller, Ronald G. Knapp ...
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  • Filoli

    Family Home; Historic Garden; Living Museum

    by Julia Bly DeVere ...
    Built more than sixty years after the California Gold Rush that inspired massive migration to Northern California, and ten years after the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, Filoli represented a desire to create a magnificent and enduring country estate. Designed between 1915 and 1917 and set against the dramatic backdrop of the northern Santa Cruz mountains in Woodside, ... Read more

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  • The Wisconsin Capitol

    Stories of a Monument and Its People

    by Michael Edmonds ...
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  • Literary Washington, D.C.

    Edited by Patrick Allen ...
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    The public face of Washington-the gridiron of L'Enfant's avenues, the buttoned-down demeanor Sloan Wilson's archetypal "Man in the Grey Flannel Suit," the monumental buildings of the Triangle-rarely gives up the secrets of this city's rich life. But, beneath the surface there are countless stories to be told. From the early swamp days to the Civil War, the "gilded age" to the New Deal and McCarthy ... Read more

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  • Building Histories

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