[PDF] Washington Homes eBook

Author : Kathryn J. Haupt
Publisher : Rockwell Publishing
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781887051262

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"Washington Real Estate Fundamentals provides an overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of real estate. A product of 32 years’ experience in real estate education, Washington Real Estate Fundamentals is widely acclaimed as the foremost prelicense text in Washington. Rockwell's Fundamentals incorporates the latest in real estate law, regulations, and business practices. It uses a range of proven study aids such as illustrations, graphs, outlines, vocabulary reviews, and chapter quizzes. The text covers all key concepts necessary to a thorough understanding of real estate transactions."--Amazon.com viewed July 24, 2023.

Author : Gregg Colburn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 25,82 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520383796

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Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisis in America and reveals the structural conditions that underlie it. In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city—including mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and low-income mobility—and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country. Instead, housing market conditions, such as the cost and availability of rental housing, offer a far more convincing account. With rigor and clarity, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem explores U.S. cities' diverse experiences with housing precarity and offers policy solutions for unique regional contexts.

Author : John W. Wayland
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 0806347759

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Anyone fascinated with the genealogy or history of the family of George Washington should own this elegant publication. For in this profusely illustrated work originally published in 1944 and reprinted by arrangement with the Virginia Book Company, John Wayland, one of the giants of Virginia genealogy, recounts the Washington family history by taking us on a tour of the legendary homesteads they inhabited.

Author : Alison K. Hoagland
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2023-05-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0813949467

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With The Row House in Washington, DC, the architectural historian and preservationist Alison Hoagland turns the lucid prose style and keen analytical skill that characterize all her scholarship to the subject of the Washington row house. Row houses have long been an important component of the housing stock of many major American cities, predominantly sheltering the middle classes comprising clerks, tradespeople, and artisans. In Washington, with its plethora of government workers, they are the dominant typology of the historical city. Hoagland identifies six principal row house types—two-room, L-shaped, three-room, English-basement, quadrant, and kitchen-forward—and documents their wide-ranging impact, as sources of income and statements of attainment as well as domiciles for nuclear families or boarders, homeowners or renters, long tenancy or short stays. Through restrictive covenants on some house sales, they also illustrate the pervasive racism that has haunted the city. This topical study demonstrates at once the distinctive character of the Washington row house and the many similarities it shares with row houses in other mid-Atlantic cities. In a broader sense, it also shows how urban dwellers responded to a challenging concatenation of spatial, regulatory, financial, and demographic limitations, providing a historical model for new, innovative designs. Publication of this volume was assisted by a grant from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

Author : Mary Smith Lockwood
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,70 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230455822

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...C. Preston--The accomplished Mrs. Roosevelt--Mrs. Madison in later years--New Year's Day--Died in this House--Purchased by Commodore Wilkes--Headquarters of General McClellan--A Military Tableau--Home of the Cosmos Club--Home of Benjamin Ogle Tayloe--Leased to Governor Swan--Mr. Tayloe's Home for forty Years--Elegant Hospitality--President William Henry Harrison's last Visit--A characteristic Poem--Shooting of Philip Barton Key--Where he Lived--Who Mr. Tayloe married--Died in Rome--Senator Don Cameron purchased the House--The most historic Building--Ground owned by Henry Clay--Commodore Rodgers--Nestor of the Navy--William H. Seward--His elegant Hospitality--" Irrepressible Conflict "--Shadows in this HomeAttempted Assassination--A lovely Daughter--A Memory and a Waiting--New Scenes--A social Queen--General and Mrs. Belknap--A new-made Grave--An honored Occupant--James G. Blaine--Changes he has witnessed--Illustrious Company--His Personal Magnetism--An American Statesman--His Footstep in the Seward Home--An attractive Location--History making--La Fayette Square--Ancient Apple Trees and truant Boys--" Hero of New Orleans "--Happy Childhood--Peaceful Memories. The White House was the first house built on La Fayette Square. It was completed in 1800. No other house was erected bn the Square until after the war of 1812. As late as 1812 the whole space from Fifteenth to Seventeenth Street was a neglected common, entirely destitute of trees, and was the parade ground for the militia muster. There was but one house between this common and the "Seven Buildings." The only houses north of the common were one that occupied the site of the present Riggs residence, and an old rickety house on the northeast angle of the...