The Courthouse and the Depot: The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair : a Narrative Guide to Railroad Expansion and Its Impact on Public Architecture in Georgia, 1833-1910"Strictly speaking, this is not an architectural history. Rather, it is history narrated by architecture. This is a book about small towns because the history of the South before 1910 is about small towns. It is a book about courthouses because the courthouse, more than any other building of the era, symbolized the collective self-image of the people of these towns. It is a book about depots because the depot is the architecture of the railroad, and in this period, for these people, in these places, the railroad brought with it the all-consuming and often disappointing promise of the future."--Jacket. |
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The Georgia Railroad | 23 |
The Central of Georgia Railroad | 61 |
The Monroe Railroad | 91 |
The Western and Atlantic Railroad | 111 |
The Atlanta and West Point Railroad | 143 |
The Southwestern Railroad | 161 |
The Atlantic and Gulf Railroad | 199 |
Reconstruction Railroads 18651873 | 231 |
The Macon and Northern Railroad | 407 |
The Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad | 417 |
The Macon Dublin and Savannah Railroad | 425 |
The Savannah Americus and Montgomery Railroad | 433 |
The Buena Vista and Ellaville Railroad | 457 |
The Wrightsville and Tennille and The Augusta Gibson and Sandersville Railroad | 465 |
The Georgia Carolina and Northern Railroad | 475 |
The Southeastern Georgia Tidewater | 485 |
The Macon and Augusta Railroad | 233 |
The Macon and Brunswick Railroad | 245 |
The Brunswick and Albany Railroad | 267 |
The Atlanta and Richmond Air Line | 277 |
Reconstruction Extensions Short Lines | 293 |
The Railroads and the Myth of the New South 1875191O | 313 |
The Northeastern Railroad | 315 |
The Elberton Air Line | 325 |
The East Tennessee Virginia and Georgia Railroad | 339 |
The Gainesville Jefferson and Southern Railroad | 353 |
Chattanooga to Columbus | 363 |
The Marietta and North Georgia Railway | 383 |
The Atlanta and Florida Railroad | 397 |
Short Lines in Eastern Georgia | 493 |
The Georgia Florida Alabama Railroad | 507 |
The Mountains of North Central Georgia | 515 |
The Georgia and Florida Railway | 525 |
The Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad | 533 |
The Atlanta and Savannah Railroad | 549 |
Georgia Courthouses Chronological Listing | 555 |
Georgia Courthouses Alphabetically by County | 565 |
Georgia Courthouses 18701910 Listed by Architect | 574 |
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Էջ 3 - But above all, the courthouse: the center, the focus, the hub; sitting looming in the center of the county's circumference like a single cloud in its ring of horizon, laying its vast shadow to the uttermost rim of horizon; musing, brooding, symbolic and ponderable, tall as cloud, solid as rock, dominating all: protector of the weak, judiciate and curb of the passions and lusts, repository and guardian of the aspirations and the hopes...
Էջ 2 - Through new false-teeth of Alabama limestone — The haircloth lap-robe weeps on a Ford radiator — But I have seen the old Courthouse. I have seen The flyspecked windows and the faded flag Over the judge's chair, touched the scuffed walls, Spat in the monumental brass spittoons And smelt the smell that never could be aired, Although one opened windows for a year, The unforgettable, intangible Mixture of cheap cigars, worm-eaten books, Sweat, poverty, negro hair-oil, grief and law. I have seen the...
Էջ 5 - One of the most significant inventions of the New South was the 'Old South' — a new idea in the eighties, and a legend of incalculable potentialities.
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| Վերնագիր | The Courthouse and the Depot: The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair : a Narrative Guide to Railroad Expansion and Its Impact on Public Architecture in Georgia, 1833-1910 |
| Հեղինակ | Wilber W. Caldwell |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Հրատարակիչ | Mercer University Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0865547483, 9780865547483 |
| Length | 613 էջ |
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