Buildings of Michigan

by Kathryn Bishop Eckert

Book Overview

In Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert provides the first study of Michigan's architectural history to encompass the full range of buildings from early settlement to the present and to account for the full spectrum of architectural styles unique to this state. Dividing the state into two regional sections--the Upper Peninsula and Lower Peninsula--the book examines such structures as the mine locations in the Copper Range, early inns and houses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195061497
• ISBN13: 9780195061499
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.8" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Good overview, with some factual errors

Book contains not a few innacuracies. Sample: "Members (of the Huron Mountain Club in the Upper Peninsula)now include affluent Michigan families like the Fords, Algers, Ferrys, Bentleys, and Angells - many of whom exploited the resources of the wilderness but saved this particular wilderness as sancturary and hideaway for themselves." The Fords have not been members since the 1930's. The Algers, Ferrys, and Angells have never been members. The Bentleys are members but are not a "Michigan Family" (they're from Chicago). Furthermore their affluence is somewhat open to question