Sarah J Boykin

Southern Homes and Plan Books

• Author(s): Sarah J. Boykin, Susan M. Hunter

• Categories: Architecture

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2018-08-01
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• Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Southern Homes and Plan Books showcases the architectural legacy and design philosophy of Leila Ross Wilburn (1885–1967), a legacy that includes hundreds of houses in a variety of popular house styles, from bungalows to ranch houses, built using Wilburn’s plan books during the first six decades of the twentieth century. Wilburn opened her own firm in Atlanta in 1908 and practiced until her death in 1967. She published nine plan books that offered mail order house designs to contractors, builders, and prospective homeowners and allowed them the ease of choosing a preconceived design and construction plan. Sarah J. Boykin and Susan M. Hunter provide a survey of the southern homes built fro...

Vernacular Architecture Newsletter

• Categories: Vernacular architecture

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2006
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Bulletin - Georgia Museum of Art

• Author(s): Georgia Museum of Art

• Categories: Art

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2009
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Gunderman and Wullenjohn Cousins with Hampel and Noll Families

• Author(s): Barbara C. Spray

• Categories: Arkansas

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1978
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• Publisher: Unknown

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A Diary from Dixie

• Author(s): Mary Boykin Chesnut

• Categories: Biography & Autobiography

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1980
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• Publisher: Harvard University Press

In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.