Houston, Space City USA (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the ... by Ray Viator

“Of all the books about Galveston, one of the best continues to be architect Howard Barnstone’s The Galveston That Was, published 28 years ago. “This coffee table sized book contains countless beautiful photos and the fascinating histories of the great buildings that made Galveston and Texas what they are today.” ( ) 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.

Brink’s afterword, that were added to the 1994 edition. This new printing of the book, now under the Texas A&M University Press imprint, contains the text annotations and updates, plus Peter H.

In 1994, Rice University Press, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and George and Cynthia Mitchell, published an updated edition of the book. Many of the buildings pictured in the book have since been restored, and the pace of demolition slowed dramatically after the book’s initial publication. Architect-author Howard Barnstone, renowned portrait photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, and architect-photographer Ezra Stoller captured the soul of the city in The Galveston That Was and as a result, inspired a major and successful effort to restore Galveston’s historic architectural treasures. Originally conceived as a requiem for the faded city, The Galveston That Was (developed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and funded by Jean and Dominique de Menil) instead helped resurrect the city. A thriving port city in the nineteenth century, Galveston suffered catastrophe in the twentieth as a deadly hurricane and shifting economics dropped a pall over its waterfront and Victorian mansions. In a 1963 novel, Edna Ferber compared the city of Galveston to Miss Havisham, the gray, mournful abandoned bride of Dickens’ Great Expectations.

Houston, Space City USA (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the ... by Ray Viator