The Country Houses of John F. Staub - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Country Houses of John F. Staub write by Stephen Fox. This book was released on 2007. The Country Houses of John F. Staub available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This ambitious study of Staub's work by architectural historian Stephen Fox goes beyond a description of Staub's houses. Fox analyzes the roles of space, structure, and decoration in creating, defining, and maintaining social class structures and expectations and shows how Staub was able to incorporate these elements and understandings into the elegant buildings he designed for his clients. In the process, he contributes greatly to a fuller understanding of Houston's emergence as a premier American city."--BOOK JACKET.
The Architecture of John F. Staub
The Architecture of John F. Staub - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Architecture of John F. Staub write by Howard Barnstone. This book was released on 1979. The Architecture of John F. Staub available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Hogg Family and Houston
The Hogg Family and Houston - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hogg Family and Houston write by Kate Sayen Kirkland. This book was released on 2012-09-21. The Hogg Family and Houston available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Progressive former governor James Stephen Hogg moved his business headquarters to Houston in 1905. For seven decades, his children Will, Ima, and Mike Hogg used their political ties, social position, and family fortune to improve the lives of fellow Houstonians. As civic activists, they espoused contested causes like city planning and mental health care. As volunteers, they inspired others to support social service, educational, and cultural programs. As philanthropic entrepreneurs, they built institutions that have long outlived them: the Houston Symphony, the Museum of Fine Arts, Memorial Park, and the Hogg Foundation. The Hoggs had a vision of Houston as a great city—a place that supports access to parklands, music, and art; nurtures knowledge of the "American heritage which unites us"; and provides social service and mental health care assistance. This vision links them to generations of American idealists who advanced a moral response to change. Based on extensive archival sources, The Hogg Family and Houston explains the impact of Hogg family philanthropy for the first time. This study explores how individual ideals and actions influence community development and nurture humanitarian values. It examines how philanthropists and volunteers mold Houston's traditions and mobilize allies to meet civic goals. It argues that Houston's generous citizens have long believed that innovative cultural achievement must balance aggressive economic expansion.
Highland Park and River Oaks
Highland Park and River Oaks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Highland Park and River Oaks write by Cheryl Caldwell Ferguson. This book was released on 2014-08-27. Highland Park and River Oaks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early twentieth century, developers from Baltimore to Beverly Hills built garden suburbs, a new kind of residential community that incorporated curvilinear roads and landscape design as picturesque elements in a neighborhood. Intended as models for how American cities should be rationally, responsibly, and beautifully modernized, garden suburban communities were fragments of a larger (if largely imagined) garden city—the mythical “good” city of U.S. city-planning practices of the 1920s. This extensively illustrated book chronicles the development of the two most fully realized garden suburbs in Texas, Dallas’s Highland Park and Houston’s River Oaks. Cheryl Caldwell Ferguson draws on a wealth of primary sources to trace the planning, design, financing, implementation, and long-term management of these suburbs. She analyzes homes built by such architects as H. B. Thomson, C. D. Hill, Fooshee & Cheek, John F. Staub, Birdsall P. Briscoe, and Charles W. Oliver. She also addresses the evolution of the shopping center by looking at Highland Park’s Shopping Village, which was one of the first in the nation. Ferguson sets the story of Highland Park and River Oaks within the larger story of the development of garden suburban communities in Texas and across America to explain why these two communities achieved such prestige, maintained their property values, became the most successful in their cities in the twentieth century, and still serve as ideal models for suburban communities today.
American Country Houses of Today
American Country Houses of Today - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Country Houses of Today write by . This book was released on 1927. American Country Houses of Today available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
