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This review is from: The Buildings of Charleston: A Guide to the City's Architecture (Hardcover)
I am a committed amateur architectural historian, and I bought this book immediately upon its publication. It's a fine book, and an exhaustive, encyclopedic effort. This is as close to a complete modern survey of Charleston buildings you will find, but there are some things potential readers should know:First, the book is REALLY limited to Charleston city. Don't come here looking for excursions to local plantations, churches and gardens. The buildings are all located within the city limit, and mostly south of Marion Square. Second, inexplicably, Jon has excluded a section of Tradd Street (the important 60 block) that includes some of the most important surviving structures of the "Grand Modell." The magnificent 1731 Jacob Motte House, at 61 Tradd Street, is absent from the survey! What happened here? Third, the author has not hidden his revisionist agenda by intentionally "post-dating" many of the oldest structures in the city. The dating of structures is still very much about personal interpretation and opinion, since a definitive and universal standard has not been published or accepted. This, unfortunately, is a trend in all of architectural history: Buildings are rarely found to be OLDER than popular knowledge, but only newer. Some of the revision can be properly attributed to dendrochronology, but in the case of this book, more often than not, it is simply the intuition of the author and his rejection of "popular" knowledge. So you'll be disturbed to learn that the old colonial house you thought was built in 1740 was "probably" built in 1790. There are many such date revisions in this book. Frequently, architectural historians are far too ready to dismiss public perception and common secondary sources, particular when that perception comes from ancient oral history rather than the [often incomplete] written record, or misaligns with the intuition of the historian. This is a good book. It's a relatively complete survey, printed in a familiar AIA-style format that includes brief entries and small monochrome photographs. Remember, as quickly as restoration occurs in Charleston, this book is getting a bit on the side of old. A new edition would be a real treat, and will eventually become a necessity. Jon, fill in those holes!
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An absolute must if you love architecture and Charleston.,
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This review is from: The Buildings of Charleston: A Guide to the City's Architecture (Hardcover)
Mr. Poston has done an excellent and exhaustive job with this book. To my knowledge it is the most comprehensive compilation to date. As well as photographs of the houses plans are also shown for many. A 9+ only because I'm reluctant to say that the "perfect" book has ever been published.
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Probably one of the most complete book of Charleston Architecture written. Interesting reading for those who have a passion for the structures of the South.
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In 1838 the noted English actress and future abolitionist Fanny Kemble visited Charleston and said: This city is the oldest I have yet seen in America. . . . Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
house constructed circa, piazza door screen, closed gable roof, altered circa, building constructed circa, piazza screen, single house plan, pedimented window heads, wooden single house, brick single house, closed gable end, high masonry foundation, stuccoed brick house, renovated circa, pedimented window hoods, single house form, tiered piazza, kitchen dependency, tenement constructed, stuccoed brick building, door architrave, high brick basement, raised brick basement, brick jack arches, tripartite window Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Greek Revival, South Carolina, Tradd Street, East Bay Street, Civil War, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Montagu Street, Queen Street, South Battery, Anson Street, State Street, Calhoun Street, Coming Street, Legare Street, Society Street, African American, College of Charleston, Hasell Street, Ashley Avenue, Beaufain Street, New York, Charlotte Street, War Between the States, Albert Simons New!
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In 1838 the noted English actress and future abolitionist Fanny Kemble visited Charleston and said: This city is the oldest I have yet seen in America. . . . Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
house constructed circa, piazza door screen, closed gable roof, altered circa, building constructed circa, piazza screen, single house plan, pedimented window heads, wooden single house, brick single house, closed gable end, high masonry foundation, stuccoed brick house, renovated circa, pedimented window hoods, single house form, tiered piazza, kitchen dependency, tenement constructed, stuccoed brick building, door architrave, high brick basement, raised brick basement, brick jack arches, tripartite window Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Greek Revival, South Carolina, Tradd Street, East Bay Street, Civil War, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Montagu Street, Queen Street, South Battery, Anson Street, State Street, Calhoun Street, Coming Street, Legare Street, Society Street, African American, College of Charleston, Hasell Street, Ashley Avenue, Beaufain Street, New York, Charlotte Street, War Between the States, Albert Simons New!
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- 306090 02: Student Discount by Alexander Briseno on page 18, and page 21
- Robert Mills: America's First Architect by John M. Bryan in Front Matter
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