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Classic Savannah: History, Houses, and Gardens
Mitchell, William Robert, Jr., 1938-2016 ; Martin, Van Jones
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. [1st ed.], 1st printing ; 142 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm ; ISBN 9780932958075, 0932958079 OCLC 17479815 ; LCCN 87080408 ; LC F294.S2 M37 1987 Dewey 975.8724 ; SIGNED by the author and photographer on the half-title ; "A Golden Coast book.";… "Savannah, Georgia, is a city famous for its historic homes and gardens and the nostalgic atmosphere of its shaded streets and squares. Through a lively text and abundant illustrations - most of them in full colour - Classic Savannah celebrates a city that has taken many forms and played many roles over its two-and-a-half-century history: a tiny settlement on Yamacraw Bluff, a colonial capital, a thriving cotton port, a survivor of wars, and, perhaps most notably, a modern preservation success story." ; William Robert Mitchell, Jr. was the son of William Robert Mitchell, former Comptroller General of Georgia and Georgia State Insurance Commissioner. He graduated in 1956 from The Westminster Schools, and received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1999. He attended Duke University for one year before transferring to Emory University where he graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History; Bill was a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. Bill worked for the Georgia Historical Commission as the Staff Historian between 1964 and 1973, working for Mary Gregory Jewett; he took an educational leave of absence from 1967 to 1969 to attend the University of Delaware, earning a Master's degree in American Studies, and furthering his education at the Winterthur Museum, in Architectural History and American Decorative Arts. His Master's degree thesis was entitled, "The Philadelphia T Square Club, 1883-1938". He then returned to Georgia as the Director of the Georgia Historic Sites Survey, under the aegis of the Director of the Georgia Historical Commission, where he established and managed the National Register of Historic Places program in Georgia. During this time, he also worked on the Tullie Smith Restoration Project, where he was the Director of Research and member of the restoration committee for the Atlanta Junior League and the Atlanta Historical Society. This was his most important private consultation in restoration. In 1974 he went on to become the Executive Director at Historic Augusta, Inc. An architectural and cultural historian, historic preservationist, lecturer, and award-winning author of 19 books, he was a founding trustee of The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation in 1973 and author of its first major book, J. Neel Reid, Architect, of Hentz, Reid, & Adler, published in 1997. In 1998 he was the founding president of Southern Architecture Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit educational corporation that has published his The Architecture of James Means (2001) and a reprint of the rare 1931 Southern Architecture Illustrated (2002), for which he wrote a new preface. He also founded the History Business, LLC, to facilitate the writing of additional books on architectural history. His monographs on Southern architects include Lewis Edmund Crook, Jr., Architect (1984), The Architecture of William Frank McCall, Jr. (1985), The Residential Architecture of Henry Sprott Long (1991), A Continuing Tradition: William Frank McCall, Jr., FAIA, 1914-1991 (1992), Edward Vason Jones, Architect, Connoisseur, and Collector, 1909-1980 (1995), and Summerour, Architecture of Permanence, Scale and Proportion (2006). In addition, Bill was the author of Landmarks, The Architecture of Thomasville and Thomas County, Georgia (1980), Landmark Homes of Georgia, 1733-1983 (1982), Classic Savannah (1987), From Plantation to Peachtree, "The Victorian Legacy" (1987), Gardens of Georgia (1989), Classic Atlanta (1991), Classic New Orleans (1993), and An Anniversary Celebration of Seventy Homes (1999). ; Van Jones Martin is a prominent American architectural and interior photographer known for documenting historic Southern homes and landscapes, particularly in Georgia ; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.
