Howard Barnstone Bresson Henri Cartier Henri Cartier-Bresson
In a 1963 novel, Edna Ferber compared the city of Galveston to Miss Havisham, the gray, mournful abandoned bride of Dickens Great Expectations. A thriving port city in the nineteenth century, Galveston suffered catastrophe in the twentieth as a deadly hurricane and shifting economics dropped a pall over its waterfront and Victorian mansions.
Originally conceived as a requiem for the faded city, The Galveston That Was (developed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and funded by Jean and Dominique de Menil) instead helped resurrect the city. Architect-author Howard Barnstone, renowned...
In a 1963 novel, Edna Ferber compared the city of Galveston to Miss Havisham, the gray, mournful abandoned bride of Dickens Great Expectations. A t...
Howard Barnstone Henri Cartier-Bresson Ezra Stoller
Of all the books about Galveston, one of the best continues to be architect Howard Barnstone s The Galveston That Was, published many years ago. This poignant and vivid record of the great mansions and public buildings of the historic island city by the late Houston architect is credited as being a catalyst in the preservation and restoration movement in Galveston. Houston Chronicle This beautiful picture book about nineteenth-century Galveston architecture is also a book about how Galveston s historic buildings were saved. Historic Preservation The compelling power of The Galveston That Was...
Of all the books about Galveston, one of the best continues to be architect Howard Barnstone s The Galveston That Was, published many years ago. This ...
