Historic Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia
Author: Signet Banking Corp
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 8
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Author: Signet Banking Corp
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 8
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sarah Shields Driggs
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 306
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated history of Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue, showing the most prestigious homes and distinguished architecture, as well as the statues that have often been a source of controversy.
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cynthia Mills
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781572332720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis richly illustrated collection of fourteen essays examines the ways in which Confederate memorials - from Monument Avenue to Stone Mountain - and the public rituals surrounding them testify to the tenets of the Lost Cause, a romanticized narrative of the war. Several essays highlight the creative leading role played by women's groups in memorialization, while others explore the alternative ways in which people outside white southern culture wrote their very different histories on the southern landscape. The authors - who include Richard Guy Wilson, Catherine W. Bishir, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, and William M.S. Ramussen - trace the origins, objectives, and changing consequences of Confederate monuments over time and the dynamics of individuals and organizations that sponsored them. Thus these essays extend the growing literature on the rhetoric of the Lost Cause by shifting the focus to the realm of the visual. They are especially relevant in the present day when Confederate symbols and monuments continue to play a central role in a public - and often emotionally charged - debate about how the South's past should be remembered. The editors: Art Historian Cynthia Mills, a specialist in nineteenth-century public sculpture, is executive editor of American Art, the scholarly journal of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Pamela H. Simpson is the Ernest Williams II Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University. She is the coauthor of The Architecture of Historic Lexington.
Author: Matthew Mace Barbee
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013-12-05
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0739187724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Race and Masculinity in Southern Memory Matthew Mace Barbee explores the long history of Richmond, Virginia’s iconic Monument Avenue. As a network of important memorials to Confederate leaders located in the former capitol of the Confederacy, Monument Avenue has long been central to the formation of public memory in Virginia and the U.S. South. It has also been a site of multiple controversies over what, who, and how Richmond’s past should be commemorated. This book traces the evolution of Monument Avenue by analyzing public discussions of its memorials and their meaning. It pays close attention to the origins of Monument Avenue and the first statues erected there, including memorials to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. Barbee provides a detailed and focused analysis of the evolution of Monument Avenue and public memory in Richmond from 1948 to 1996 through the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil War Centennial, and up to the memorial to Arthur Ashe erected in 1996. An African-American native of Richmond, Ashe was an international tennis champion and advocate for human rights. The story of how a monument to him ended up in a space previously reserved for statues of Confederate leaders helps us understand the ways Richmond has grappled with its past, especially the histories of slavery, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights.
Author: Patricia Cecil Hass
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2013-04-09
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1625845022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally a tribute to Robert E. Lee, Richmond's Monument Avenue grew to its zenith in the early twentieth century as a place of wealth and privilege. Richmond native and child of Monument Avenue Patricia Hass has collected the loving memories of those who shared a childhood among the River City's elite. These pages are filled with recollections of warm afternoons playing in the shadows of the monuments and visits to neighborhood institutions such as Reuben's Deli and the Capitol Theatre. While the children played, their families entertained famous houseguests such as David Niven, Lord and Lady Astor and Winston Churchill. Enter each historic home along the avenue and travel back to a time now lost to memory.
Author: Allan B. Jacobs
Publisher: Mit Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780262600231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhich are the world's best streets, and what are the physical, designable characteristics that make them great? To answer these questions, Allan Jacobs has surveyed street users and design professionals and has studied a wide array of street types and urban spaces around the world. With more than 200 illustrations, all prepared by the author, along with analysis and statistics, Great Streets offers a wealth of information on street dimensions, plans, sections, and patterns of use, all systematically compared. It also reveals Jacobs's eye for the telling human and social details that bring streets and communities to life.An extensive introduction discusses the importance of streets in creating communities and criteria for identifying the best streets. The essays that follow examine 15 particularly fine streets, ranging from medieval streets in Rome and Copenhagen to Venice's Grand Canal, from Parisian boulevards to tree-lined residential streets in American cities. Jacobs also looks at several streets that were once very fine but are less successful today, such as Market Street in San Francisco, identifying the factors that figure in their decline.To broaden his coverage, Jacobs adds briefer treatments of more than 30 other streets arranged by street type, including streets from Australia, Japan, and classical antiquity in addition to European and North American examples. For each of these streets he has prepared plans, sections, and maps, all drawn at the same scales to facilitate comparisons, along with perspective views and drawings of significant design details.Another remarkable feature of this book is a set of 50 one square-mile maps, each reproduced at the same scale, of the street plans of representative cities around the world. These reveal much about the texture of the cities' street patterns and hence of their urban life. Jacobs's analysis of the maps adds much original data derived from them, including changes of street patterns over time.Jacobs concludes by summarizing the practical design qualities and strategies that have contributed most to the making of great streets.
Author: Judy P. Smith
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Published: 2020-10-12
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ISBN-13: 9781715637484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pictorial of the Avenue, and other removed monuments, was compiled prior to the 2020 protests and removal efforts. It is my sincere hope that these images preserve the fond memories of the city for those lucky enough to have seen them before the destruction, and gives a glimpse into the beauty that was once Monument Avenue for those that never had the opportunity to visit.
Author: Matthew Mace Barbee
Publisher: New Studies in Southern Histor
Published: 2017-07-15
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781498564236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Race and Masculinity in Southern Memory Matthew Mace Barbee offers an in-depth analysis of Richmond's Monument Avenue from its origins through 1996 and pays special attention to the impact of Civil Rights struggles on Monument Avenue.
Author: Kathy Edwards
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-08-25
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781391617794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Monument Avenue, History and Architecture Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, is renowned as the South's grandest commemorative precinct dedicated to the heroes of the Lost Cause. Its name derives from the Confederate memorials strung the length of its tree-lined ceremonial axis, a series of traditional public sculptures that range from the bronze-and-granite, beaux-arts monumentality of an equestrian Robert E. Lee to enshrined cannons marking the lines of Richmond's defensive battlements during the long years of siege. But apart from its memorial function, Monument Avenue is also one of the most celebrated examples in the United States of the residential boulevard as public amenity and civic art. The avenue begins at Stuart Circle, one mile west of Capitol Square at the head of Franklin Street, nineteenth-century Richmond's most socially correct address, and extends more than a mile northwest through the city's west end. When its first blocks were planned in 1887, the city ended here, in rolling fields stretching past the state agricultural exhibition grounds into the farmlands of Henrico County. Today J. E. B. Stuart's statue marks the transformation of Franklin Street's shaded intimacy-characteristic of the historic city's old order-into the City Beautiful expanse of a four-lane, divided boulevard fully 140' wide between building lines. The stylistic transition from the genteel Victorian urbanity of the historic city to the avenue's vigorous red-brick modernity, from a comfortable past to Something New, is modulated, even graceful, but the change in spatial scale is profound. Four parallel rows of trees frame the avenue's double carriageways and wide median, contributing as much to dramatic public vistas as to the creation of an exclusive residential environment. On either side, the street wall consists of two and three-story houses and apartment buildings faced in brick or stone, uniformly set back from paved sidewalks 15' wide. At pedestrian level, beneath the foliage, nearly every house proffers the visual and social intervention of a columned porch or balustraded terrace between private property and public promenade. The blurred effect from the thick of traffic whizzing down the thoroughfare is of a unified fabric of white columns and limestone details against a field of Colonial Revival red brick, opening up at more or less regular intervals to the grand ceremonial event of a monument in stone and bronze. Experienced this way, the avenue exhibits a remarkable architectural cohesiveness; only closer attention reveals the variety of design and detail, the singular identity of each individual house, and an apparently provisional standard of what was appropriate to build there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.