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Capital losses : a cultural history of Washington's destroyed buildings

"Before the passage of critical preservation legislation in 1978, the Nation's Capital lost an irreplaceable assembly of architecturally and culturally significant buildings. Wanton destruction in the name of progress - particularly in the decades immediately following World War II - resul...

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Main Author: Goode, James M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington : Smithsonian Books, 2003.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects and Genres:
Lost architecture > Washington (D.C.).
Washington (D.C.) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Washington (D.C.) > Biography.
Biography.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I.
  • Residential
  • 1.
  • Federal Faces: Georgian and Federal Houses
  • 2.
  • Classical Interlude: Greek Revival Houses
  • 3.
  • Age of Romanticism: Early Victorian Houses
  • 4.
  • Gaslight and Gilt: Late Victorian Houses
  • 5.
  • The City Beautiful: Post-1890 Houses
  • 6.
  • The Domestic Scale: Row Houses
  • 7.
  • The Transient City: Hotels and Apartment Houses
  • Pt. II.
  • Nonresidential
  • 8.
  • Steeped in Glory: Churches
  • 9.
  • For Members Only: Clubs and Organizations
  • 10.
  • Capital Commerce: Commercial Buildings
  • 11.
  • Uncle Sam's Workrooms: Early Government Buildings
  • 12.
  • The Expanding Bureaucracy: Post-Civil War Government Buildings
  • 13.
  • Nine to Five: Office Buildings
  • 14.
  • Grease Paint and Celluloid: Theaters
  • 15.
  • For Mind and Body: Schools and Hospitals
  • 16.
  • A Moving Experience: Transportation Buildings
  • 17.
  • Hooks and Ladders: Fire Stations
  • 18.
  • "Tempos" in War and Peace: Temporary Government Buildings
  • 19.
  • Forgotten Fragments: Street Furniture.

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