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Sabine Hall, an important building of the colonial period, was built by the fourth son of Robert “King” Carter, Landon Carter, an innovative planter, politician, and patriot. As initially built, Sabine Hall was a typical large Georgian house, mathematically proportioned to be 60 by 40 by 30 feet below the eaves, symmetrical on all elevations, and crowned by a tall hipped roof with...more
Lincoln Creek Day School, one of three day schools built in the 1930s on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in southeastern Idaho, is a physical manifestation of a dramatic shift in U.S. government policy spearheaded by Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier, who was largely responsible for the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act, also known as the “Indian New Deal.” Through the Act, Collier...more
Evanston was established as a railroad town when the Union Pacific Railroad was constructed through southwestern Wyoming in 1868. When the railroad was completed the following year, the company hired Chinese immigrant laborers to work on railroad section crews and in the nearby Union Pacific coal mines. Evanston was...more
As one critic of the Carson Mansion glibly stated, if hybridity is a distinctly American quality, then this exuberant residence in northern California is quintessentially American. Indeed, this Victorian building is a pastiche of Eastlake (or Stick), Queen Anne, and Renaissance Revival stylistic tropes, but architects... more
