Buildings of Texas : Central, South, and Gulf Coast / Gerald Moorhead, editor and photographer ; with James W. Steely, W. Dwayne Jones, Anna Mod, John C. Ferguson, Cheryl Caldwell Fe

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Buildings of the United StatesPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.Description: xv, 582 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780813932552 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0813932556 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.9764 23
LOC classification:
  • NA730.T5 B85 2013
Contents:
Introduction. Architecture at the crossroads ; Texas building blocks ; Old world crosses new world ; Earliest European settlement ; Transplanted Renaissance ; Fateful bargains ; Jeffersonian democracy ; Early statehood ; Patrolling the frontier ; War and reconstruction ; State of mobility ; New public buildings ; Cities beautiful, in Parts and wholes ; Modernist awakening ; Patriotic fervor ; Architecture of emergency ; The new deal in Texas ; The home front in World War II ; Housing crisis ; Cold war, cold buildings ; Breaking the ice ; Lost and found ; Millennial crossroads -- Central Texas. Austin ; Prairie view to San Felipe ; Bastrop to Taylor ; Navasota to Salado ; Waco to Tehuacana -- South central Texas. San Antonio ; Seguin to Floresville ; New Braunfels to Bandera ; Castroville to Jourdanton -- South Texas. Corpus Christi ; Port Aransas to Violet ; Kingsville to Alice ; Laredo ; San Ygnacio to Mission ; McAllen to Raymondville ; Hidalgo to Los Indios ; Brownsville to South Padre Island -- Gulf Coast. Houston ; Tomball to Montgomery ; Orange to Port Arthur ; Beaumont ; Anahuac to Texas City ; Galveston ; Angleton to Stafford ; Wharton to Danevang ; Bay City to Edna ; Victoria ; Refugio to Fulton ; Goliad to Beeville -- Glossary.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-535) and index.

Introduction. Architecture at the crossroads ; Texas building blocks ; Old world crosses new world ; Earliest European settlement ; Transplanted Renaissance ; Fateful bargains ; Jeffersonian democracy ; Early statehood ; Patrolling the frontier ; War and reconstruction ; State of mobility ; New public buildings ; Cities beautiful, in Parts and wholes ; Modernist awakening ; Patriotic fervor ; Architecture of emergency ; The new deal in Texas ; The home front in World War II ; Housing crisis ; Cold war, cold buildings ; Breaking the ice ; Lost and found ; Millennial crossroads -- Central Texas. Austin ; Prairie view to San Felipe ; Bastrop to Taylor ; Navasota to Salado ; Waco to Tehuacana -- South central Texas. San Antonio ; Seguin to Floresville ; New Braunfels to Bandera ; Castroville to Jourdanton -- South Texas. Corpus Christi ; Port Aransas to Violet ; Kingsville to Alice ; Laredo ; San Ygnacio to Mission ; McAllen to Raymondville ; Hidalgo to Los Indios ; Brownsville to South Padre Island -- Gulf Coast. Houston ; Tomball to Montgomery ; Orange to Port Arthur ; Beaumont ; Anahuac to Texas City ; Galveston ; Angleton to Stafford ; Wharton to Danevang ; Bay City to Edna ; Victoria ; Refugio to Fulton ; Goliad to Beeville -- Glossary.

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