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PRESENCE OF THE PAST - Monticello, Mt. Vernon, Ticonderoga Historic Preservation
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PRESENCE of The PASTA History of the Preservation Movement
in the
United States before Williamsburg
by Charles B. Hosmer, Jr.
This is a lively, accurate and provocative account of the preservation movement and
the dedicated pioneers who saved such historic buildings as Monticello, Mount
Vernon, the Lee Mansion, Fort Ticonderoga and many others. Includes well-researched
accounts of Ann Pamela Cunningham of South Carolina, William Sumner Appleton of
Boston, militant architects Charles F. McKim and Fiske Kimball, the Pell, Levy, and
Touro families, the legislature of New York, the City of Philadelphia, the legions
of the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Native Sons and
Daughters of the Golden West.
Hardcover, 6" x 9", 386 pages, illustrated, indexed.