| Harlem: Lost and Found Contributor(s): Adams, Michael Henry (Author), Rocheleau, Paul (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 1580930700 ISBN-13: 9781580930703 Publisher: Monacelli Press OUR PRICE: $58.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2001 Annotation: Awarded "Best Book of the Year" by the London Times in 2003, Harlem, Lost and Found presents an architectural and social history of Harlem. The text starts in the early days--the establishment of the first European farms in the mid-1660s--and continues through the Harlem Renaissance, where artists, writers, and jazz musicians permanently changed world popular cultural. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | History - General - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - Architecture | Regional |
| Dewey: 974.71 |
| LCCN: 2002005823 |
| Physical Information: 1.23" H x 9.88" W x 11.84" (4.57 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - New York - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Long identified with African-American style and culture, Harlem is also a pillar of New York's social and architectural history. In this beautifully illustrated study, historian Michael Henry Adams presents an evocative portrait of the various and divergent Harlems of yesteryear, from the Native American settlements discovered by the Dutch in the seventeenth century to the vibrant community of present-day preservationists. In addition to the legacy of residential architecture--Dutch farmhouses, Native American longhouses, mansions and country villas, thoughtfully planned row houses, and handsome apartment buildings, the author examines schools, industrial facilities, stores, churches, and more. Harlem's spectrum of designers ranges from the well known--McKim, Mead & White, responsible for part of Strivers' Row; George B. Post & Sons, architects of the monumental Shepard Hall at the City College of the City University of New York--to practitioners who, though today mostly forgotten, designed much of the urban fabric of Harlem and New York City. All have contributed to an extraordinarily rich streetscape that today preserves the best of Harlem's past. |