Books
SHIPPED – Great Houses and Their Stories: Winston-Salem’s “Era of Success,” 1912-1940
Author and distinguished architectural historian Margaret Supplee Smith, Ph.D., and noted photographer Jackson Smith tell the rich histories of more than 75 great houses through beautiful new photography, historic photographs, personal narratives, and oral histories. Through diligent research of historical records and interviews with residents and local historians, they’ve uncovered fascinating stories about the families whose fortunes shaped neighborhoods like Buena Vista, West Highlands, and Reynolda Park.
In the early twentieth century, Winston-Salem was hailed as the “town of a hundred millionaires.” Booming tobacco and textile manufacturing industries converged to make Winston-Salem the largest and richest city in all of North Carolina, and major architects flocked to the area to design for its newly wealthy clientele. Ambitious commercial buildings and gracious suburban estates abounded, hosting generations of families that shaped the economic future of the country.
Great Houses and Their Stories explores Winston-Salem’s finest residential architecture from that era–its spacious mansions, palatial gardens, and even working farms–and delves deeply into the stories of the people who lived and worked in those historic buildings. This is a book for the preservationists, history buffs, and architecture lovers of the world and for the Winston-Salem residents who have always wondered about the abundance of green-roofed mansions still surviving in their city, even as similar pockets of early 20th century architecture throughout the country have been lost to time.
By publishing this book, Preservation North Carolina hopes to advance the preservation of Winston-Salem’s rich architectural legacy, which is highly threatened by demolition and overdevelopment.
Tax, shipping and handling are included.
LOCAL PICKUP – Great Houses and Their Stories: Winston-Salem’s “Era of Success,” 1912-1940
Author and distinguished architectural historian Margaret Supplee Smith, Ph.D., and noted photographer Jackson Smith tell the rich histories of more than 75 great houses through beautiful new photography, historic photographs, personal narratives, and oral histories. Through diligent research of historical records and interviews with residents and local historians, they’ve uncovered fascinating stories about the families whose fortunes shaped neighborhoods like Buena Vista, West Highlands, and Reynolda Park.
In the early twentieth century, Winston-Salem was hailed as the “town of a hundred millionaires.” Booming tobacco and textile manufacturing industries converged to make Winston-Salem the largest and richest city in all of North Carolina, and major architects flocked to the area to design for its newly wealthy clientele. Ambitious commercial buildings and gracious suburban estates abounded, hosting generations of families that shaped the economic future of the country.
Great Houses and Their Stories explores Winston-Salem’s finest residential architecture from that era–its spacious mansions, palatial gardens, and even working farms–and delves deeply into the stories of the people who lived and worked in those historic buildings. This is a book for the preservationists, history buffs, and architecture lovers of the world and for the Winston-Salem residents who have always wondered about the abundance of green-roofed mansions still surviving in their city, even as similar pockets of early 20th century architecture throughout the country have been lost to time.
By publishing this book, Preservation North Carolina hopes to advance the preservation of Winston-Salem’s rich architectural legacy, which is highly threatened by demolition and overdevelopment.
To take advantage of this option, you must be able to pick up the book at our Raleigh headquarters location. Please coordinate pickup with our staff by emailing Chrissy Pressley at cpressley@presnc.org.
Tax is included.
SHIPPED – Buying Time for Heritage: How to Save an Endangered Historic Property, Second Edition
New revised and expanded edition, published by UNC Press
What does it take to save endangered historic properties? This practical guide builds on decades of historic preservation experience to provide readers with legal, financial, political, and technical tools and strategies to be more effective preservationists. Myrick Howard makes clear that large sums of money are not necessarily needed to save endangered historic properties, but knowledge and passion are essential.
This book shows how preservation-minded neighbors and organizations can succeed with only modest resources and rather than clash with developers, can become developers themselves for community benefit. Howard draws on case studies from forty-five years of successful work leading Preservation North Carolina, with lessons that are applicable coast to coast.
This richly illustrated, fully revised and redesigned second edition includes detailed projects to renovate vacant houses in working-class neighborhoods; reflections on addressing racial equity through preservation; an expanded section on using preservation easements; and summaries of revolving fund programs around the country. Buying Time for Heritage is an indispensable resource for those looking to save the special places of our collective past.
Read a review of this book in History News Magazine!
(This review originally appeared in History News Vol 78 no. 2. History News is the quarterly membership magazine of the American Association for State and Local History and digital issues can be found at learn.aaslh.org.)
Tax, shipping and handling are included.
LOCAL PICKUP – Buying Time for Heritage: How to Save an Endangered Historic Property, Second Edition
New revised and expanded edition, published by UNC Press
What does it take to save endangered historic properties? This practical guide builds on decades of historic preservation experience to provide readers with legal, financial, political, and technical tools and strategies to be more effective preservationists. Myrick Howard makes clear that large sums of money are not necessarily needed to save endangered historic properties, but knowledge and passion are essential.
This book shows how preservation-minded neighbors and organizations can succeed with only modest resources and rather than clash with developers, can become developers themselves for community benefit. Howard draws on case studies from forty-five years of successful work leading Preservation North Carolina, with lessons that are applicable coast to coast.
This richly illustrated, fully revised and redesigned second edition includes detailed projects to renovate vacant houses in working-class neighborhoods; reflections on addressing racial equity through preservation; an expanded section on using preservation easements; and summaries of revolving fund programs around the country. Buying Time for Heritage is an indispensable resource for those looking to save the special places of our collective past.
Read a review of this book in History News Magazine!
(This review originally appeared in History News Vol 78 no. 2. History News is the quarterly membership magazine of the American Association for State and Local History and digital issues can be found at learn.aaslh.org.)
To take advantage of this option, you must be able to pick up the book at our Raleigh headquarters location. Please coordinate pickup with our staff by emailing Chrissy Pressley at cpressley@presnc.org.
Tax is included.
SHIPPED – North Carolina Architecture
Preservation NC’s award-winning 50th Anniversary publication, North Carolina Architecture by Catherine Bishir. This gorgeous coffee table book tells the history of the state through its buildings and features timeless images by noted architectural photographer Tim Buchman.
Tax, shipping and handling are included.
LOCAL PICKUP – North Carolina Architecture
Preservation NC’s award-winning 50th Anniversary publication, North Carolina Architecture by Catherine Bishir. This gorgeous coffee table book tells the history of the state through its buildings and features timeless images by noted architectural photographer Tim Buchman.
To take advantage of this option, you must be able to pick up the book at our Raleigh headquarters location. Please coordinate pickup with our staff by emailing Chrissy Pressley at cpressley@presnc.org.
Tax is included.
SHIPPED – Cameron Park, A Remote Retreat on Hillsboro Street, 1910 to 2010
Published in the fall of 2014, this book covers a 100-year span in the Raleigh neighborhood of Cameron Park. Written by accomplished historian Ruth Little, with photographs by David Strevel, this charming book contains a richly illustrated narrative about Cameron Park and its residents through its first century.
Tax, shipping and handling are included.
LOCAL PICKUP – Cameron Park, A Remote Retreat on Hillsboro Street, 1910 to 2010
Published in the fall of 2014, this book covers a 100-year span in the Raleigh neighborhood of Cameron Park. Written by accomplished historian Ruth Little, with photographs by David Strevel, this charming book contains a richly illustrated narrative about Cameron Park and its residents through its first century.
To take advantage of this option, you must be able to pick up the book at our Raleigh headquarters location. Please coordinate pickup with our staff by emailing Chrissy Pressley at cpressley@presnc.org.
Tax is included.