No comments about Ancient Sites of Maui, Molokai and Lanai.

No comments about The Hall of Mirrors: History and Restoration.

1 comments about Frank Lloyd Wrights House on Kentuck Knob.

1. Don Hoffman's book gives and accurate description of how this magnificent home came into being from its inception to completion. It discusses how the sketches evolved due to the environmental considerations of the landscape showing how Kentuck Knob was build to coordinate the house and the hill upon which it was built into one organic structure.

   It explains Wright's architectural philosophy as to why he makes the decisions he did when building this house.

   Visually the book itself is elegantly designed with excellent photographs giving a true feel for the nature of the house and providing some insignt to the wise, artistically minded people whom conceived of and lived in Kentuck Knob so happily and with such a great respect for the environment which the house occupies.

   As a child I spent a great deal of time in this house, being close family friends with the original owners, so I would know if there were any inconsistancies with the book and reality and find it most accurately written.

   This would be a great gift for anyone interested in architecture, environmnetalism or whom is a particular fan of Frank Llyod Wright's architecture. Also it is so beautifully done that it would just be a pretty coffee table book to keep for yourself or for in a guest room.

5 comments about A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston.

1. So much of what Charleston is now has been the result of whitewashing its past more than its historic buildings. With a depth and criticism, Yuhl establishes a balanced understanding beyond what most visitors see in the water-colored myths available for purchase and the selective memories handed down to native Charlestonians and like-minded transplants. A complex and contradictory reality behind the fabrication of Charleston's historical mythology is revealed with wit and scholarly directness. This is a must read for anyone looking to know more than what gets promoted by the tourism industry. Perhaps Yuhl's book will be considered a milestone in bringing present Charleston, though maybe kicking and screaming, in to a more accurate understanding of past self.



2. Stephanie Yuhl's study of Charleston is a great read, organized brilliantly with metaphors from theatre, and wonderfully well written. As a newcomer to Charleston but a long time South Carolinian, I was fascinated by her account of how Charleston has marketed itself. Her analysis of the literature of the Charleston Renaissance is extremely insightful as is her critique of Charleston's most well known painters. But perhaps most astute is her analysis of class and race relations. This book is definitely a prize winner!
   Carolyn Matalene
   Distinguished Professor Emerita
   University of South Carolina



3. When you visit Charleston for the first time you are impressed and at times overcome by the sheer beauty of the place. The charismatic churches, cobblestone streets, and preserved homes seem almost movie set like in their ability to transport you to another time. Stephanie Yuhl's book very adeptly explores the phenomenon that is Charleston. This capitol of the south has been able to preserve itself like many European cities have done for centuries. An effort that is largely ignored in most other American urban areas. I wish I had "Golden Haze of Memory" when I first went to Charleston, as it explores how and why this Southern Belle of a city has sought urban renewal through preservation of a romanticized past.



4. Stephanie Yuhl's book on the "making" of historic Charleston, South Carolina during the 1920s and 1930s -- the era of "Porgy and Bess" -- is fascinating. Yuhl deconstructs the mythmaking that artfully ignored some of the city's less heroic features and transmuted them into a placid, controversy-free image of a way of life at once locked in the past but also looking forward.



5. Stephanie Yuhl's book is a great read for historians and layman alike. I loved it. As a native Carolinian(North), adopted Charlestonian, historian, and community college instructor, I found the book fascinating. The research and conclusions are thorough and thoughtful. I have used it as a reference for my own research on memory and cultural association. The sources and notes are extensive. Yuhl's book, as any good history, creates new questions for debate. Those people who consider themselves versed in the history of the city should read it and have an opinion. This book is "about Charleston" and "FOR Charleston". But it is also for the rest of us who visit and study the city, and care about its special place in the history of the South.

1 comments about History of Architectural Conservation (CONSERVATION AND MUSEOLOGY).

1. The best and most comprehansion overwiew of architectural conservation I've red in 25 years of my engaging in the field of architectural conservation.
   As the basic publication is not important only for practioners, but also for owners, public and politicians...
   
   Zvezda Kozelj, Institute for the protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, SI - Ljubljana

No comments about The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri: A Survey of a Vanishing Culture.

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No comments about The Victorian Society Book of the Victorian House.

No comments about The LDS family travel guide: Independence to Nauvoo.

2 comments about Caring for Your Historic House (Heritage Preservation & Nps).

1. I bought this book for myself when I owned a house that was built in 1930. I have since sold the house but the book was so helpful I now plan to give it as a gift.



2. Upon completing an historic preservation workshop at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest in Virginia this fall, a staff member recommended this book to me. It been a tremendous resource to me in my restoration of the Peter Elliott House.