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Series
Wright studies volume 2
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Series
Architectural treasures of Early America volume 13
Publisher
National Historical Society
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"The Liberty Bell, Gettysburg, and Independence Hall may stand out as prominent Pennsylvania features, but the Keystone State is also home to bizarre places, personalities, events, and phenomena. These unique and quirky aspects are humorously displayed in Pennsylvania Curiosities, a cross between a wacky news gazette, an almanac, and a humorous travel guide"--Amazon.com, viewed June 18, 2013.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told.
When he got the commission to design the house, Wright was nearing seventy, his youth and his early fame long gone. It was the Depression, and Wright had no work in sight....
When he got the commission to design the house, Wright was nearing seventy, his youth and his early fame long gone. It was the Depression, and Wright had no work in sight....
9) Stamped out
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Back in Aldenville, Pennsylvania, with a failed marriage and a sabotaged career in her wake, April Buchert is ready for a fresh start. Working alongside her father on the restoration of the town's famous Winchester mansion seems like the perfect project--until their efforts reveal a murderous motif..."--p. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
History Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In early twentieth-century New York, few could have imagined a train terminal as grandiose as Pennsylvania Station. Yet, executives at the Pennsylvania Railroad secretly bought up land in Manhattan's infamous Tenderloin District to build one of the world's most spectacular monuments. Sandhogs would battle the fiercest of nature to build tunnels linking Manhattan to New Jersey and Long Island. For decades, Penn Station was a center of elegance and...
11) Old Penn Station
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated account of the construction, history, and demolition of one of the most famous railroad stations in America-- New York City's Penn Station.