Description
In this considerate excursion of 120 ancient Properties in Waco, Texas, architectural historian Kenneth Hafertepe offers readers a glimpse of the sudden number of types and tales captured within the homes constructed by means of and for Wacoans. Specializing in the duration from the 1850s to approximately 1940, Hafertepe supplies no longer simplest snapshots of the dwellings wherein the folk of Waco lived, but additionally knowledgeable tricks approximately how they lived: everybody from the wealthiest traders to the humblest day workers.
Historic Properties of Waco, Texas accommodates subject matter gleaned from town directories, hearth insurance coverage maps, census and cemetery information, and different archival and printed assets to have enough money probably the most whole image imaginable of the way those Properties got here to be and what turned into of people who constructed and lived in them. Over 120 colour images, additionally taken by means of the writer, spherical out the descriptions.
The preferred enthusiasm for the tv collection that includes Waco-house “fixer-uppers,” coupled with the burgeoning native business generated by means of the display’s charismatic hosts, has for sure boosted hobby in ancient Properties and homes in Waco. Certainly, Hafertepe has integrated a handful of homes featured at the display a few of the homes profiled on this ebook. However past any present leisure craze, Historic Properties of Waco, Texas will stand the check of time as an authoritative and enjoyable tribute to those vital systems and the individuals who inhabited them.
Historic Properties of Waco, Texas accommodates subject matter gleaned from town directories, hearth insurance coverage maps, census and cemetery information, and different archival and printed assets to have enough money probably the most whole image imaginable of the way those Properties got here to be and what turned into of people who constructed and lived in them. Over 120 colour images, additionally taken by means of the writer, spherical out the descriptions.
The preferred enthusiasm for the tv collection that includes Waco-house “fixer-uppers,” coupled with the burgeoning native business generated by means of the display’s charismatic hosts, has for sure boosted hobby in ancient Properties and homes in Waco. Certainly, Hafertepe has integrated a handful of homes featured at the display a few of the homes profiled on this ebook. However past any present leisure craze, Historic Properties of Waco, Texas will stand the check of time as an authoritative and enjoyable tribute to those vital systems and the individuals who inhabited them.
