Lost Virginia: Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion

Charlottesville, VA: Howell Press, 2001. Hardcover. VG/VG- (light wear to block, pages otherwise very clean. Dust jacket has general shelf wear/discoloration/edgewear/sunning.). Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, sepia illustrated dust jacket with white and red lettering, xxv, 222 pp, profusely illustrated throughout in bw. Published to coincide with a spring 2001 exhibition at the Virginia Historical Society featuring the images from the book. Contents include: Lost Domestic Architecture -- Lost Civic Architecture -- Lost Religious Architecture -- Lost Commercial Architecture -- Bibliographical Notes -- Index. "Lost Virginia is an efford to document and reconstruct the appearance of Virginia architecture in earlier times, when the nation's destiny and history were intimately tied to the Old Dominoin's landscape and buildings. It seeks to recover, at least on paper, an impression of our lost architectural heritage. Organized into categories of domestic, civic, religious, and commercial buildings, the more than three hundred vanished structures illustrated within include slave pens in Alexandria, George Washington's singular sixteen sided barn, a one room schoolhouse in Green County, and the 18th century Valley homes-long mistaken for forts- of German speaking settlers." -dust jacket excerpt.