Preserving the Old Dominion: Historic Preservation and Virginia Traditionalism

ISBN-13: 9780813914503 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 316 str.

James M. Lindgren

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In 1889 tradition-minded women, including many from Virginia's most prominent families, formed the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, the first state preservation organization in the US. Cultural historian Lindgren shows how the preservation movement strove to rebuild a revere