A Home Renovator's Guide for Historic Ocean Grove with Memories of a Preservationist, the 1980s

*A Home Renovator’s Guide for Historic Ocean Grove: with Memories of a Preservationist, the 1980s* from the author Jennifer Boyd is illustrated with 114 contemporary color photographs by John Sosenko. The Guide presents eight Victorian architectural styles in Ocean Grove, a National and State Historic Site, nuts-and-bolts advice on good renovation techniques and how to preserve historic character, capped with an inside story of Ocean Grove residents’ pitched battle to protect its historic fabric against the onslaught of fire, neglect, and developers in the 1980s. This untold tale unfolds through a behind-the-scenes account by the author, a past president of the Ocean Grove Home Owner’s Association and preservationist of that era.

שנה

1989

שפה

English

הוצאה

Viewfinder Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

69

ISBN

9798991097307

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