Preserving American Mansions and Estates - Hardcover

Shopsin, William C.

9780070570412: Preserving American Mansions and Estates

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ISBN 10: 0070570418 ISBN 13: 9780070570412

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1994

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Architect Shopsin has made a career of documenting the preservation of a unique and particularly vulnerable property type-the historic homes of America's wealthy. His latest book outlines legal and financial tools that preservationists have used in recent years to rescue mansions, designed landscapes, estates, and open land. Numerous case studies-organized by site, preservation issue, and significance-document successful continued-use and adaptive-use projects. While there is a strong East Coast bias in the examples provided, the techniques and strategies described can apply nationwide. Although one wishes for more detailed financial information on individual projects, this is a useful introduction to the many challenges of saving landmark resources.
H. Ward Jandl, National Park Svc., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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