In Buildings of Iowa, David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim trace Iowa's architectural history from the earliest Native American influences to the present. Divided into five regional areas--Mississippi River East, Mississippi River West, and the Central, South, and North regions--the book's entries within each area are presented on a town-by-town basis to include the full array of Iowa's architectural offerings in various styles. Whether discussing farm houses, barns, and silos or churches, schools, courthouses, and libraries, the volume shows how a unity of rural and urban is effectively mirrored in Iowa's buildings.

Buildings of Iowa (Buildings of the United States)

Travel

Gebhard, David

Mansheim, Gerald

United States

Oxford University Press

From the first years of European settlement down to the present moment, Iowa has symbolized the heart of America. In Buildings of Iowa we are offered a wide-ranging survey of this state's architecture from the earliest Native American influences to the present. The image of Iowa as the breadbasket and agricultural center of the nation often overlooks the unity of urban and rural that is reflected in Iowa's buildings and landscape. Surveying the full array of Iowa's architectural styles on a town-by-town basis, this volume examines such structures as octagonal houses, log cabins, Beaux-Arts courthouses, water towers, grain elevators, the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans Home at Cedar Falls, the bright blue "glass fused to steel" silos built by A.O. Harvestore Products Inc., Art Deco service stations, post office buildings, churches, bank buildings, public high schools, American Prairie houses, and motion picture theaters. Beautifully illustrated with over 400 photographs, lincuts, and maps, Buildings of Iowa shows both general readers and travelers how a unity of rural and urban is effectively mirrored in Iowa's buildings.

Dust jacket notes: "Iowa City: An Illustrated History looks not only at the pioneer past, already well explored, but also at the recent past, where the dust has barely settled. The book takes its readers in words and pictures from the rising brick walls of early Iowa City to the falling and rising brick walls of urban renewal - and beyond. Meanwhile, the parallel stories of Johnson County and the University of Iowa unfold. With eyes, mind, and cameras, Gerald Mansheim observes, and for more than thirty-five years Iowa City has been the main object of his observation. In line with his interest in historic preservation and his practice of architectural photography, he emphasizes buildings, which by their presence or absence most vividly show what Iowa City has gained and lost over the past century and a half. In this sesquicentennial volume he presents, in illustration of a consecutive book-length history, 365 captioned black-and-white photographs and twenty-three color photographs of Iowa City and its surroundings. Iowa Citians, long in residence or lately arrived, tend to be investigative, literate, and interactive, capable of distinguishing between history and public relations handouts. Consequently Gerald Mansheim, in support of a remarkable collection of photographs, illustrations, and maps, has written them a real history."

Iowa City: An Illustrated History

History

Americas

Schiffer Pub. Ltd

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