Houses Without Names

Houses Without Names
Author: Thomas C. Hubka
Publsiher: Vernacular Architecture Studie
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1572339470

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"Hubka argues that even "vernacular architecture" scholars tend to embrace a model for understanding home forms that relies on iconic architects and theories about how ideas proceed downward from aesthetic ideals to home construction, even though this model fails to adequately characterize the vast majority actual homes that people live in, particularly in recent times after the widespread growth of suburban America. This controversial book proposes new ways to categorize houses"--

High Cost of Living in District of Columbia

High Cost of Living in District of Columbia
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 1038
Release: 1919
Genre: Cost and standard of living
ISBN: LOC:00186825135

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The Row House in Washington DC

The Row House in Washington  DC
Author: Alison K. Hoagland
Publsiher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2023-05-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780813949468

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With The Row House in Washington, DC, the architectural historian and preservationist Alison Hoagland turns the lucid prose style and keen analytical skill that characterize all her scholarship to the subject of the Washington row house. Row houses have long been an important component of the housing stock of many major American cities, predominantly sheltering the middle classes comprising clerks, tradespeople, and artisans. In Washington, with its plethora of government workers, they are the dominant typology of the historical city. Hoagland identifies six principal row house types—two-room, L-shaped, three-room, English-basement, quadrant, and kitchen-forward—and documents their wide-ranging impact, as sources of income and statements of attainment as well as domiciles for nuclear families or boarders, homeowners or renters, long tenancy or short stays. Through restrictive covenants on some house sales, they also illustrate the pervasive racism that has haunted the city. This topical study demonstrates at once the distinctive character of the Washington row house and the many similarities it shares with row houses in other mid-Atlantic cities. In a broader sense, it also shows how urban dwellers responded to a challenging concatenation of spatial, regulatory, financial, and demographic limitations, providing a historical model for new, innovative designs. Publication of this volume was assisted by a grant from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

How the Working Class Home Became Modern 1900 1940

How the Working Class Home Became Modern  1900   1940
Author: Thomas C. Hubka
Publsiher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781452964089

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The transformation of average Americans’ domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes At the turn of the nineteenth century, the average American family still lived by kerosene light, ate in the kitchen, and used an outhouse. By 1940, electric lights, dining rooms, and bathrooms were the norm as the traditional working-class home was fast becoming modern—a fact largely missing from the story of domestic innovation and improvement in twentieth-century America, where such benefits seem to count primarily among the upper classes and the post–World War II denizens of suburbia. Examining the physical evidence of America’s working-class houses, Thomas C. Hubka revises our understanding of how widespread domestic improvement transformed the lives of Americans in the modern era. His work, focused on the broad central portion of the housing population, recalibrates longstanding ideas about the nature and development of the “middle class” and its new measure of improvement, “standards of living.” In How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940, Hubka analyzes a period when millions of average Americans saw accelerated improvement in their housing and domestic conditions. These improvements were intertwined with the acquisition of entirely new mechanical conveniences, new types of rooms and patterns of domestic life, and such innovations—from public utilities and kitchen appliances to remodeled and multi-unit housing—are at the center of the story Hubka tells. It is a narrative, amply illustrated and finely detailed, that traces changes in household hygiene, sociability, and privacy practices that launched large portions of the working classes into the middle class—and that, in Hubka’s telling, reconfigures and enriches the standard account of the domestic transformation of the American home.

Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine

Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 892
Release: 1891
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: MINN:31951001906966I

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The Accented Bible All Proper Names Accented Edited by the Rev Alexander Taylor

The Accented Bible     All Proper Names Accented  Edited by the Rev  Alexander Taylor
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 828
Release: 1875
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: BL:A0026549216

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Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland

Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland
Author: Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 994
Release: 1763
Genre: Ireland
ISBN: UTEXAS:059172140405045

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Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons

Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 566
Release: 1849
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OXFORD:555095689

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