Virginia is as much a state of mind as a set of geographical
boundaries. Its western terrain encompasses dramatically beautiful
mountaintops and scrubby lowlands, luxuriantly rich terrain, and
rocky, almost untillable land. The green forests, rich loam, red
clay, and sandy soil attracted waves of immigrants, newcomers
almost as varied as the landscape. They came first to explore and
trade and then to work, often to overwork, the land. The result in
architecture is one of conservatism and rebellion, a region
supremely proud of its history and, all too often, neglectful of
its preservation.This second of two volumes devoted to the Old
Dominion encompasses five regions (Shenandoah Valley, Allegheny
Highlands, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest Virginia), comprising
55 counties and 20 of the state's independent cities. More than
1,250 building entries document the commonwealth's history from
prehistory to early settlement, through the Civil War,
Reconstruction, Massive Resistance, and the civil rights movement,
to the present day, surveying a range of building types and styles
from log cabins to tobacco plantation houses, including the
birthplaces of Booker T. Washington and Confederate general Jubal
Early, set in close proximity in Franklin County, and the homes of
Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee in Lexington. The text,
enhanced and enlivened by 300 photographs and 31 maps, canvasses
everything from Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest and Woodrow
Wilson's Presidential Library to Roanoke's modernist Taubman Museum
of Art and the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley to Shenandoah
National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway, highlighting along the
way Virginia's contributions to literature (Willa Cather to the
Waltons), music (the Carter Family and Ralph Stanley), cuisine
(apple orchards, turkey farms, and whiskey distilleries), and
tourism (Luray Caverns to Natural Bridge).
A volume in the Buildings of the United States series of the
Society of Architectural Historians
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