Michigan's Historic Railroad Stations (Painted Turtle)
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (867 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814334830 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Michael H. He confesses to being crazy about architecture, an obsession he blames on the six years he spent as a student at Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, one of North America's great, idyllic campuses. . A native of the Detroit area, Hodges grew up on a dairy farm thirty miles north of the city. He als
Hodges presents depots ranging from functioning Amtrak stops (Jackson) to converted office buildings (Battle Creek) and spectacular abandoned wrecks (Saginaw and Detroit) to highlight the beauty of these iconic structures and remind readers of the key role architecture and historic preservation play in establishing an area's sense of place.Along with his striking contemporary photographs of the stations, Hodges includes historic pictures and postcards, as well as images of "look-alike" depots elsewhere in the state. Readers interested in Michigan railroad histo
A lively through Michigan's railroad stations, with an emphasis on architecture This book was a greater pleasure than I expected. The author went to 31 train stations across Michigan, from the big station in Detroit down to an assortment of stations in rural towns. He took great photos of the stations, and then wrote a few pages about the origins and history of each of them. It isn't a dull list of railroad station facts--it's a series of evocative, beautifully photographed instances of a chapter of American social history . Stations to Remember The book, Michigan's Historic Railroad Stations, is a journey in itself. Not only does it take you on an architectural train trip of breathtakingly beautiful stations but the photographs themselves transport you to another time. Taking in the images in this book I couldn't help but think the fading light on a Victorian rooftop might have been reason enough for me to get off at that station a hundred years ago. This is a great book to buy or give. Celebrating our transportation past Michigan Reviewer Very nice book by Mr. Hodges celebrating and showcasing some fantastic edifices from Michigan's past. Railroads were the primary form of transportation for many years and were many times the most important links many little burgs had with the outside world. The locus of that link was the railroad station and the station master. It is so nice to see that many little places have saved or resurrected these wonderful little buildings and they are us
Reid Honors College at Wayne State University and author of AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of HistoryHere is the wonder of a world brought to life in Michael H. --Jerry Herron, professor of English and dean of the Irvin D. --Reed Kroloff, former editor of Architecture magazineHere is the wonder of a world brought to life in Michael H. We rode the rails out of the past and into the future, and along the way we stopped off here, at these stations, to catch the next train. In this thoughtful, affectionate survey, Michael Hodges catalogs a building type that characterized the energies and enthusiasms of its age-a confident period when architecture defined new languages to represent America's ascendant technological prowess. Reid Honors College at Wayne State University and author of Aft