Title & Author:

Architects and builders in North Carolina : a history of the practice of building / Catherine W. Bishir [and others] ; research assistance by J. Marshall Bullock and William B. Bushong.

Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1990.

Description:

xi, 540 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-519) and index.
The plague of building: construction practices on the frontier, 1650-1730 / Carl R. Lounsbury -- A proper good nice and workmanlike manner: a century of traditional building practice, 1730-1830 / Catherine W. Bishir -- A spirit of improvement: changes in building practice, 1830-1860 / Catherine W. Bishir -- The wild melody of steam: the mechanization of the manufacture of building materials, 1850-1890 / Carl R. Lounsbury -- The advance in industrial enterprise: building with the new technology, 1865-1900 / Charlotte V. Brown -- The opportunities are unlimited: architects and builders since 1945 / Ernest H. Wood, III.

ISBN:

0807818984 (alk. paper)
9780807818985 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architectural practice North Carolina.
Building Practice North Carolina.
Construction industry North Carolina.
Vernacular architecture North Carolina.
Architectural practice North Carolina History.
Building Practice North Carolina History.
Architecture Pratique Caroline du Nord Histoire.
Construction Pratique Caroline du Nord Histoire.
Construction Industrie Caroline du Nord.
Architecture vernaculaire Caroline du Nord.
Construction Pratique Caroline du Nord.
Architectural practice
Building Practice
Construction industry
Vernacular architecture
North Carolina

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Bishir, Catherine W.
Bullock, J. Marshall.
Bushong, William.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 56957
Call No.: ID:90-B5262
Status: Available