Donnelly, Lu.

Buildings of Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania / Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble, Franklin Toker ; with contributions by Clinton Piper, Sally McMurry, and Laura Ricketts.

Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

xiv, 641 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Buildings of the United States

This work considers the architecture, landscape, and town plans of thirty-one counties west of Blue Mountain and north to Lake Erie, including cities and communities big and small, from Pittsburgh, Beaver Falls, Johnstown, and Altoona to Bellefonte, State College, Lock Haven, Clarion, and Erie, and scores of places in between. The volume spans the years from the late eighteenth century through to the first decade of the new millennium and reveals a range of architectural surprises. The authors discuss exemplary and everyday buildings and places--Harmonist villages, Carnegie libraries, river communities, amusement parks, farms and barns, the crossroads of Breezewood, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater among them--and canvass the scores of bridges, railroads, and inclines that cross the region. Descriptions of close to 150 of the commonwealth's small settlements, from coal patches to pike towns, capture the dialogue between industry and agriculture that typifies western Pennsylvania.

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Brumble, H. David, 1977-
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Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania

Location: Library study room 273624
Call No.: NA735.P53 D6 2010
Status: Available