Puck Building
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In this podcast from the Bowery Boys, Greg Young narrates the history of New York's Puck Building, built to house the offices of the turn-of-the-century periodical Puck Magazine.
Rochester Historical Society [NY]
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The Rochester Historical Society chronicles the history and architectural heritage of Rochester, New York. The society is primarily a research-oriented organization, but also offers school outreach programs including the "History of the Road" program, which is a traveling presentation program. In addition, the society offers extensive research resources that are open to the public.
The website offers information regarding the society and the programs it offers.
The Octagon Museum: The Museum of the American Architectural Foundation [DC]
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The Octagon Museum, the oldest U.S. museum of art and design, permits the American Architectural Foundation to share an understanding of and interest in architecture with the general public. The Federal period museum structure was built between 1799 and 1801. However, today, the interior and exterior reflect the period between 1817 and 1828. Collections include more than 100,000 original architectural drawings, 760 decorative arts artifacts, and over 12,000 archaeological items and architectural fragments found during restoration.
The museum offers exhibits and tours. Tours are unavailable during architectural restoration.
The First Apartment Building
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From the Bowery Boys website:
"Well, we're movin' on up....to the first New York apartment building ever constructed. New Yorkers of the emerging middle classes needed a place to live situated between the townhouse and the tenement, and the solution came from overseas—a daring style of communal and affordable living called the 'apartment' or 'French flat'.
The city's first was financed by Rutherford Stuyvesant, an old-money heir with an unusual story to his name. He hired one of the upper class's hottest architects to create an apartment house, called the Stuyvesant Apartments, with many features that would have been shocking to more than a few New Yorkers of the day.
The building's first tenants were sometimes well-known, often artists and publishers, and almost all of them with a fascinating story to tell. Listen in to hear about the vanguard first renters of this classic, long-gone building."
Monticello Explorer
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President Thomas Jefferson worked on designing his estate, Monticello, throughout much of his adult life, drawing heavily on classical architecture as well as the French architecture he became acquainted with during his time in Paris in the 1780s. This website presents an interactive map of Monticello, at its height a 5,000 acre plantation—its buildings, fields, orchards, and slave quarters—providing a window into Jefferson's domestic life.
Visitors can click on one of more than 25 locations on the Plantation, and see a short explanation of that place's function, as well as a small selection of current and historical photographs and documents pertaining to that location, including some of Jefferson's original building plans. Visitors can then virtually move inside Monticello itself through a 3-D tour of Jefferson's home, accompanied by text highlighting the social function of each room.
Also offered are virtual tours of the house, highlighting domestic life at Monticello and Jefferson's relationship with farming and gardening. Each of these tours is accompanied by a useful video introducing these topics and providing other background information about Jefferson's life and work.
Preservation Trades Network
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"The Preservation Trades Network (PTN) is a non-profit membership organization founded as an education, networking, and outreach organization. PTN was established on the principle that conservation of the built environment is fundamentally dependent on the quality, availability, and viability of the skilled trades. We believe that opportunities for education, employment, and compensation of people in the trades are directly reflected in the quality of the built environment, and the effective stewardship of cultural heritage."
Hyde Hall State Historic Site [NY]
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Hyde Hall was built by George Clark and is one of the foremost examples of a neoclassical country mansion in the United States. The home was completed in 1833, and was placed on the national register of historic places in 1964 after the Glimmerglass state park was created around it. Today, the home is open to visitors year round.
The state historic site offers guided tours of the home. The website offers a photo-tour of the house as well as a history of the house.
Digital Library of Georgia
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Bringing together a wealth of material from libraries, archives, and museums, this website examines the history and culture of the state of Georgia. Legal materials include more than 17,000 state government documents from 1994 to the present, updated daily, and a complete set of Acts and Resolutions from 1799 to 1995. "Southeastern Native American Documents" provides approximately 2,000 letters, legal documents, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images from 17301842. Materials from the Civil War era include a soldier's diary and two collections of letters.
The site provides a collection of 80 full-text, word-searchable versions of books from the early 19th century to the 1920s and three historic newspapers. There are approximately 2,500 political cartoons from 1946-1982; Jimmy Carter's diaries; photographs of African Americans from Augusta during the late 19th century; and 1,500 architectural and landscape photographs from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted
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Video background from The Library of Congress Webcasts site:
"Frederick Law Olmsted is best remembered for his landscape architecture, from New York's Central Park and Boston's Emerald Necklace to the grounds of the U.S. Capitol and the campus of Stanford University. Olmsted was also an influential journalist, an early voice for the environment and an abolitionist credited with helping dissuade England from joining the South in the Civil War. Justin Martin discusses his new book, "Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted.""
Cincinnati Preservation Association [OH]
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The Cincinnati Preservation Association advocates architectural preservation within the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. As such, the majority of the association's time is given to preservation easement and awareness. However, educational opportunities appropriate to kindergarten through 12th grade students are available.
The association offers one- to two-hour architectural walking tours in several Cincinnati districts.