250 Buildings That Tell America's Story - Paperback
250 Buildings That Tell America's Story - Paperback
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by Doug Gelbert (Author)
If those walls could talk...oh what a story they would have to tell.
Civil Rights Movement, Monument Movement, City Beautiful Movement...car culture, youth culture, ancient culture...trolley parks, national parks, theme parks...Indian Wars, foreign Wars, bone wars...Gilded Age, Information Age, Space Age...sports idols, movie idols, music idols...oil industry, steel industry, textile industry...kit houses, sod houses, octagonal houses...POW camps, relocation camps, mining camps...fires, earthquakes, floods...lobsters. pineapples, diamonds...French colonization, Spanish colonization, Russian colonization...five and dimes, department stores, malls...beer, bourbon, soda water...Rural Cemetery Movement, Chautauqua Movement, Labor Movement...covered bridges, suspension bridges, concrete bridges...Corn Palace, Palace of Governors, Hawaiian Palace...Texas Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Cashless Revolution...resort vacations, beach vacations, gambling vacations...
The success of the American experiment is not that United States has survived and flourished as a country for 250 years but that 50 individual states have survived - almost continuously - as one country for 250 years.
Those states have a big tale to tell. We've selected FIVE from each state with plenty to say. So bring your curiosity. Bring your sense of adventure. Hit the road and bring your camera. These buildings have stories you are going to want to hear.
