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"Bastrop, Texas: a picturesque community of modest size located at the edge of the Lost Pines Forest Central Texas. Yet, from its vantage point on the banks of the Colorado River, this town boasts 131 sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying the community for its label: "Most Historic Small Town in Texas." In Historic Homes of Bastrop, Texas, local historians and researchers Robbie Moore Sanders and Sandra Chipley Kellogg have collected the stories behind nearly a hundred of the city's most historic dwellings, most built between 1835 and 1950. Copiously illustrated and engaging, the book begins with a quick historical overview of the community that incorporates period photographs, historic floorplans and maps, and engaging stories about the people who built and lived in the homes. In addition, the authors have provided beautiful, full-color photographs of the buildings as they exist today. From the simple dwelling of a community activist to the ornate Victorian mansions of the wealthy, Sanders and Kellogg trace the narrative of this culturally rich community through the remarkably varied lives of its people and the houses they built. Readers with an interest in local history and culture and historic preservation as well as visitors to this popular tourist locale-recognized as a "Distinctive Destination" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation-will thoroughly enjoy Historic Homes of Bastrop, Texas"--

Memories of places identify people as individuals and tie them to networks of culture and society. In this work, Frances Downing suggests ways to translate the memory of personal experience and transfer it intentionally to architecture and design.

In this definitive retrospective of Roger Winter's life and art, Susie Kalil offers an in-depth portrait of one of today's most important American painters. Critics, collectors, scholars, students, and art lovers will glean deep insights from this study in contrasts.

Offers a visual celebration of Houston's historic ties to the US human space program. Author and photographer Ray Viator, a longtime Houstonian, has lovingly captured the spirit of a city's devotion to space exploration from the 1960s to now.

Designed to appeal to those with a love for old houses and especially for the preservation of historic structures, All the Houses Were Painted White offers its readers a stately appreciation of the historic houses in and around the town of Victoria, Texas, and their place in the South Texas landscape.

In this expansive and vigorous survey of the Houston art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, author Pete Gershon describes the city's emergence as a locus for the arts, fuelled by a boom in oil prices and by the arrival of several catalyzing figures, including museum director James Harithas and sculptor James Surls.

Richly illustrated with rare period photographs, Houston's Hermann Park: A Century of Community provides a vivid history of Houston's oldest and most important urban park. Author and historian Barrie Scardino Bradley sets Hermann Park in both a local and a national context as this grand park celebrates its centennial at the culmination of a remarkable twenty-year rejuvenation.

Interweaving written documents, oral interviews, and images, this book presents a picture of Galveston's alleys and alley life from the founding of the city into the twenty-first century. It blends a combination of research, photography, and the voices of those who have lived and those who live along the alleys.