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Preston Morgan Bolton, Texas Architect and Civic Leader Volume 21
Houston's Hermann Park
Richly illustrated with rare period photographs, Houston’s Hermann Park: A Century of Community provides a vivid history of Houston’s oldest and most important urban park. Author …
Remembrance and the Design of Place
Memories of places identify people as individuals and tie them to networks of culture and society. In this work, Frances Downing suggests ways to translate the memory of personal …
The Galveston That Was
In a 1963 novel, Edna Ferber compared the city of Galveston to Miss Havisham, the grey, mournful abandoned bride of Dickens' Great Expectations. A thriving port city in the …
Twentieth-Century Doctor
Dr. Mavis Kelsey’s career spanned some of the most astounding years ever in the development of medicine as a profession. Medical research and technological developments …
The Galveston That Was
An updated edition of the book which illustrates the city of Galveston and, as a result, inspired an effort to restore its architectural treasures.
Houston's Forgotten Heritage
This ambitious book tells a richly detailed story of Houston home life and culture from the settlement of Harrisburg and Houston in the 1820s and 1830s to World War I, when rapid …
The Architecture of Birdsall P. Briscoe Volume 24
Historic Homes of Bastrop, Texas Volume 23
Bastrop, Texas: a picturesque community of modest size located at the edge of the Lost Pines Forest in Central Texas. Yet, from its vantage point on the banks of the Colorado …
The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston
Alleys and back buildings, the subject of Ellen Beasley's visually compelling book, have been a feature of Galveston since its early days as a growing port city on the upper Texas …
All the Houses Were Painted White
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 …