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"One Week" (1920)
Directed by Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton
Produced by Joseph M. Schenck
Written by Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton
Starring Buster Keaton
Sybil Seely
Joe Roberts
Lon Chaney[citation needed]
Cinematography Elgin Lessley
Editing by Buster Keaton
Distributed by Metro Pictures
Release dates September 1, 1920[1]
Running time 19 minutes
Country USA
Language Silent film
English intertitles
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"Selling the Dwelling: The Books That Built America’s Houses, 1775-2000" At the Grolier Club December 11 2013-February 7 2014; Curated by Richard W. Cheek
"In December of 2013 the Grolier Club will host an extraordinary exhibition on the history of the American Dream of home ownership. Over 200 rare books, periodicals, drawings, periodicals, and printed ephemera will show how the idea of “A Home for All” was marketed in the United States, first through eighteenth-century builder’s guides, then by nineteenth-century pattern books, and finally by twentieth-century house plan catalogues.
"The plans, elevations, and large, elaborate, and often colorful perspective views in these books fueled the growth of home ownership in America. The story begins in 1775 with George Bell’s reproduction of Abraham Swan’s The British Architect, credited as the first architectural book published in America. The show will contrast early American editions of luxurious pattern books for the wealthy with a selection of the more modest “builder’s guides” used by most Americans who desired to construct a house. As the Republic grew, and novel styles of design began to challenge Classical and Federal norms, new domestic pattern books such as Alexander Jackson Davis’s Rural Residences (1837) began to offer plans and elevations in the new Italianate and Gothic styles.
"After a hiatus in building during the Civil War, American house building resumed in earnest, fueled by an explosion of architectural book publishing, which now focused on providing house plans by mail. The trend begins in 1856 with Cleaveland and Backus’s Village and Farm Cottages and Cummings and Miller’s Architecture (1865), and grows throughout the 1870s with Hussey’s 1875 Home Building, and Palliser’s Model Homes for the People (1876).
"By the 1880s the quasi-periodical publications of Robert W. Shoppell’s “Co-operative Building Plan Association” illustrate the growing importance of magazines -- Godey’s Lady’s Book, Ladies’ Home Journal, House Beautiful and House and Garden -- as a vehicle for popularizing house designs. At the turn of the century, as the demand for more small houses increased, local millwork companies and national retailers like Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward began to produce pre-cut homes that could be shipped by railroad for assembly by local carpenters. The exhibition devotes a special section to the advertising and marketing of this new mode of house-building.
"With so many different businesses issuing house plan books simultaneously, an incredible variety of often elaborately-designed and printed publications was produced, usually accompanied by other forms of advertisement such as home planning guides, company journals, flyers, posters, calendars and paper models. Focusing directly on the consumer, chiefly on women, this vast panoply of promotional material promised a tasteful, convenient, and comfortable dwelling to anyone who purchased the products and services or followed the advice being offered. The post-WWII home-building boom reinvigorated plan book production, with modernism gaining a foothold when the undecorated version of the ranch house became part of the vogue for wide, single-level houses in the 1950s and early 1960s.
"The exhibition tracks extensive and rapid changes to the literature of house building after 1970. The level of house catalogue publication declined in the 1970s and 80s, chiefly because large tract developers were making more of the design decisions for new dwellings than prospective homeowners were. Many smaller house plan publishers went out of business, and the supply of plan books was further diminished in the 1990s, as house designs became increasingly available on internet sites which offered CD-ROMS instead of printed catalogues.
"The evolution of the house design book in the United States is a long and complicated story, filled with architectural creativity and banality, commercial genius and excess, egalitarian and humanitarian ideals, literary and social ambition, can-do individualism, faith in progress and invention, and endless energy. All of these quintessential American traits are bound within the pages of the builder’s guides, pattern books, catalogues, and other forms of architectural literature that have competed for the financial and psychological rewards involved in designing and building a domestic haven for every citizen. Curator Richard W. Cheek highlights the more visually arresting and socially compelling examples of this genre, focusing on books that reveal the character of our country as much as they do the style of our houses."
Photograph by James Russiello
Amalgamated Dwellings (Springsteen & Goldhammer, approx 1930) - 504 Grand Street. Cooperative Village, Lower East Side, NYC
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Among the grandest and earliest of Hillsdale County's fieldstone dwellings. Henry Hannibal Dresser (1828–1896); a native of Jefferson County, New York; owned the house in 1872 (though I doubt he constructed it). Homes of this plan—"upright-and-wing," in preservation jargon—are common in southern Michigan and other regions settled by New Yorkers.
winter wonderland. cobblestone dwelling with chimney and pink heart cloud. 9 glittery snow pine trees, a pond of ice and heaps of snow.
"Selling the Dwelling: The Books That Built America’s Houses, 1775-2000" At the Grolier Club December 11 2013-February 7 2014; Curated by Richard W. Cheek
"In December of 2013 the Grolier Club will host an extraordinary exhibition on the history of the American Dream of home ownership. Over 200 rare books, periodicals, drawings, periodicals, and printed ephemera will show how the idea of “A Home for All” was marketed in the United States, first through eighteenth-century builder’s guides, then by nineteenth-century pattern books, and finally by twentieth-century house plan catalogues.
"The plans, elevations, and large, elaborate, and often colorful perspective views in these books fueled the growth of home ownership in America. The story begins in 1775 with George Bell’s reproduction of Abraham Swan’s The British Architect, credited as the first architectural book published in America. The show will contrast early American editions of luxurious pattern books for the wealthy with a selection of the more modest “builder’s guides” used by most Americans who desired to construct a house. As the Republic grew, and novel styles of design began to challenge Classical and Federal norms, new domestic pattern books such as Alexander Jackson Davis’s Rural Residences (1837) began to offer plans and elevations in the new Italianate and Gothic styles.
"After a hiatus in building during the Civil War, American house building resumed in earnest, fueled by an explosion of architectural book publishing, which now focused on providing house plans by mail. The trend begins in 1856 with Cleaveland and Backus’s Village and Farm Cottages and Cummings and Miller’s Architecture (1865), and grows throughout the 1870s with Hussey’s 1875 Home Building, and Palliser’s Model Homes for the People (1876).
"By the 1880s the quasi-periodical publications of Robert W. Shoppell’s “Co-operative Building Plan Association” illustrate the growing importance of magazines -- Godey’s Lady’s Book, Ladies’ Home Journal, House Beautiful and House and Garden -- as a vehicle for popularizing house designs. At the turn of the century, as the demand for more small houses increased, local millwork companies and national retailers like Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward began to produce pre-cut homes that could be shipped by railroad for assembly by local carpenters. The exhibition devotes a special section to the advertising and marketing of this new mode of house-building.
"With so many different businesses issuing house plan books simultaneously, an incredible variety of often elaborately-designed and printed publications was produced, usually accompanied by other forms of advertisement such as home planning guides, company journals, flyers, posters, calendars and paper models. Focusing directly on the consumer, chiefly on women, this vast panoply of promotional material promised a tasteful, convenient, and comfortable dwelling to anyone who purchased the products and services or followed the advice being offered. The post-WWII home-building boom reinvigorated plan book production, with modernism gaining a foothold when the undecorated version of the ranch house became part of the vogue for wide, single-level houses in the 1950s and early 1960s.
"The exhibition tracks extensive and rapid changes to the literature of house building after 1970. The level of house catalogue publication declined in the 1970s and 80s, chiefly because large tract developers were making more of the design decisions for new dwellings than prospective homeowners were. Many smaller house plan publishers went out of business, and the supply of plan books was further diminished in the 1990s, as house designs became increasingly available on internet sites which offered CD-ROMS instead of printed catalogues.
"The evolution of the house design book in the United States is a long and complicated story, filled with architectural creativity and banality, commercial genius and excess, egalitarian and humanitarian ideals, literary and social ambition, can-do individualism, faith in progress and invention, and endless energy. All of these quintessential American traits are bound within the pages of the builder’s guides, pattern books, catalogues, and other forms of architectural literature that have competed for the financial and psychological rewards involved in designing and building a domestic haven for every citizen. Curator Richard W. Cheek highlights the more visually arresting and socially compelling examples of this genre, focusing on books that reveal the character of our country as much as they do the style of our houses."
Photograph by James Russiello
I ran across this tonight while looking for a photo to upload since I did not take a new one today. This is a picture of two of my 5 older brothers: Frank and Nick.
These two were born after World War Two and one year apart. They grew up together in between brothers 6 and 12 years older, and with two sisters and two brothers younger by 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. They bonded but became very individual people.
Nick, the older brother, became a teacher, journalist, researcher, legislative staffer, and columnist. He raised 4 girls, along with his wife and partner. Frank, the younger brother, started out in healthcare, and weaved his way through many careers, finishing as a servant of the people of the State of Illinois. He raised a boy and a girl with one wife, and after that marriage ended, wed again, and raised a boy and a girl again.
Frick and Frack were their nicknames, I'm not sure where that came from. I'm sure my sister Trish could tell me. She's two years older than me and has been watching over me since I was born.
These two kept in touch, in their own ways through the passage of years. When Frank grew disabled and more or less confined to his home, Nick would spend hours talking with Frank, going down memory lane. Nick tried to steer Frank onto happy memories instead of dwelling on the troubles of each day. They enjoyed the time together as grown-ups, laughing at the fun they had in youth.
Frank died at 55 three years ago. It was not unexpected because of his many health issues, but a shock regardless. I miss my brother, as I know Nick does. Frank and I knew each other pretty well. We were privy to the events of a lifetime in a family large, but close. I didn't like his self-destructive ways, but then I am not perfect either.
I've done a lot of growing up since Frank died. I believe that I can thank Frank and the shock of his demise for pushing me to work on my own health issues. Thanks, Frank.
Nick has been dealing with the effects of Lyme Disease for several years. He pushes himself forward, helped by his dear Mary Ann, and the love of his girls. He writes a weekly column for a paper out East. He loves to write and has a passion for it and for the place he lives, his most common column subject.
Family, close and far, is precious.
From September 2007. These are Jomon period houses in Kabayama in Kitakami City. People lived here in houses like this 20,000 years ago!
Derelict council estate overlooking Cardiff bay and Penarth Marina - apparently this entire estate wll be demolshed because the land it's built on has some of the best views of Cardiff from Penarth. As I was walking around I noticed three dwellings where people were still happily living their lives... or maybe they're putting up a protest of some sort. Either way, is isn't the most pleasant place in the world; most of the flats/maisonettes have been burnt-out, many of the blocks are showing serious structural damage and are literally falling down by themslves.
In the central area of Turkey extensive cavities have been carved out of the rock of the area to create the most fantastical multistory interconnected assemblage of dwellings, churches, and other buildings which were occupied for several thousand years, evacuated only when the Turkish army forcefully evicted the last remaining occupants after WWI (they were Christians presumably of Greek descent who were transported to Greece, according to our guide.)
In use. Built 1724, altered late 19th century. The dwelling to the left was extended in 1975 when a joint porch was erected.
A ring, probably centuries old, of stones used to hold down a tent of skins. The line of stones down the middle held oil lamps and cookstove, and separated men from women. This was in a rarely-visited fjord; our guides recorded this site for the first time.
Cave dwellings carved into the hard mud hills of Shoshone by miners in the 1920s. These also became crash spots for hippies during the popularity of Tecopa and Shoshone in the 1960s.
One of numerous constructions along the ill-planed development around Castelldefels which has resulted in a think strip of 'protected' dunes only a few metres wide with massive and sterile urbanisation just behind.
For more information on the National Park Seminary visit The Seminary at Forest Glen, the website of the private developer for the site, the website of Save Our Seminary, or the Wikipedia page for the site.