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The New York State Capitol and the Great Fire of 1911

By: Paul Mercer,Vicki Weiss,Friends of the New York State Library

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The New York State Capitol and the Great Fire of 1911

By: Paul Mercer,Vicki Weiss,Friends of the New York State Library

In the early morning hours of March 29, 1911, a fire broke out in the New York State Capitol at Albany. By sunset, the entire western portion of the building had sustained extensive structural damage. Within lay the entire collection of the New York State Library, almost completely reduced to ashes. Founded in 1818, this had been one of the finest research libraries in the country and home to innumerable manuscript and printed rarities. In a particularly bitter irony, the fire struck as the overcrowded library was four months away from moving into new, spacious quarters under construction across the street. Miraculously there was only one fatality, an elderly watchman, Samuel Abbott, whose body was not recovered until several days later. Images of America: The New York State Capitol and the Great Fire of 1911 includes recently discovered photographs documenting the construction of the building, beginning in 1867, as well as eyewitness accounts of its destruction.

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132

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439639108

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9781439639108

Kingston

By: Patricia O'Reilly Murphy,Friends of Historic Kingston

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Kingston

By: Patricia O'Reilly Murphy,Friends of Historic Kingston

Located midway up the legendary Hudson River, Kingston has its own storied past. In the Stockade National Historic District in uptown Kingston where the city was founded in 1658, many of the sturdy limestone houses built by the early European settlers still stand. Downtown Kingston offers a view of the thriving maritime village that mushroomed on the waterfront in the 19th century when the Delaware and Hudson Canal opened there in 1828. The storefronts, homes, and churches of the Rondout National Historic District are the legacy of the immigrants and entrepreneurs who poured in hoping to ride the tide of prosperity promised by the canal. Midtown reflects the pride of the new city of Kingston after the two villages united in 1872 and a civic center and robust industrial district grew on former grazing fields.

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129

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738598267

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9780738598260

New Orleans Architecture: Jefferson City

By: Friends of the Cabildo

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New Orleans Architecture: Jefferson City

By: Friends of the Cabildo

Traces the development of Uptown New Orleans. A thoroughly researched history of the area tells how the land was transformed from the sprawling plantation to an agricultural suburb and finally to the elegant residential city of the 1870s and after. A complete architectural inventory lists all noteworthy buildings of the neighborhood.

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Pelican Publishing

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1455609382

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9781455609383

New Orleans Architecture

Faubourg Tremé and the Bayou Road

By: Friends of the Cabildo,Roulhac Toledano,Mary Louise Christovich,Betsy Swanson

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New Orleans Architecture

Faubourg Tremé and the Bayou Road

By: Friends of the Cabildo,Roulhac Toledano,Mary Louise Christovich,Betsy Swanson

This volume focuses on the Bayou Road, which was lined with the country seats and residences of the city's earliest settlers."--The publisher.

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Pelican Publishing

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1565548310

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9781565548312

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The New York State Capitol and the Great Fire of 1911

The New York State Capitol and the Great Fire of 1911

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New Orleans Architecture: Jefferson City

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