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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"town houses"”.
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Places of discourse and dialogue : a study in the material culture of the Cape during the rule of the Dutch East India Company
… of domestic architecture, which resembled the town houses of the Netherlands, underlies the tradition. Analysis of existing literature, archaeological excavation, and inventories, indicates that gradual changes towards the basic traditional form during the first decades of the eighteenth …
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An archive: housing the written history of the citizens of Bucks County, Pennsylvania
… promise or as a threat. The history of Doylestown records the arrival of train travel as an event. It would be a remarkable change that could put a small town on the map by opening doors of travel and communication in the heart of rural farmland. The tracks entered the town from the southwest …
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Old masters and aspirations : the Randlords, art and South Africa
… the purchase and furnishing of country 11 houses, lavish expenditure on entertaining, the ownership of town houses, and the acquisition of titles are considered in relation to their an collections. The introduction includes a survey of the literature on the Randlords, a brief overview of …
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Maids, Wives and Widows: Female Architectural Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Britain
This thesis explores the extent to which elite women of the eighteenth century commissioned architectural works and the extent to which the type and scale of their projects was dictated by their marital status. Traditionally, architectural historians have advocated that eighteenth-century …