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Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of our Architectural Treasures by Richard Cahan, Michael Williams

• Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of our Architectural Treasures
  

• Richard Cahan, Michael Williams
  

• Page: 208
  

• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
  

• ISBN: 9781733869058
  

• Publisher: Cityfiles Press
  

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Overview

Lost in America documents the life and death of America's architectural and historic treasures. The book is based on a remarkable archive created by the Historic American Building Survey (HABS), a Works Progress Administration project that still documents the nation's most important buildings. Lost in America focuses on 100 buildings that have been torn down over the past 90 years. Some―like New York's Penn Station and Chicago's Stock Exchange―were majestic. Others―like a tiny bridge in rural Montana and a small farmstead torn down for Denver's International Airport―were modest. But they all reflected America's story before they were razed. Using haunting black-and-white images by the nation’s top architectural photographers, the book presents a timely look at what we’ve lost.