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| Acknowledgments | ix | |
| Introduction | xi | |
| Outposts | ||
| Light Keepers' Dwellings and Lifesaving Stations | 1 | |
| Light Keepers' Dwellings | 7 | |
| Ocracoke Light Station | 9 | |
| Cape Hatteras Light Station | 9 | |
| Bodie Island Light Station | 13 | |
| Currituck Beach Light Station | 17 | |
| The United States Lifesaving Service in North Carolina | 22 | |
| Portsmouth Island Lifesaving Station | 26 | |
| Little Kinnakeet Lifesaving Station | 29 | |
| Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station | 32 | |
| Chatham-Type Stations | 36 | |
| Lodges | ||
| Hunt Clubs from Currituck to Carteret | 37 | |
| Birds of a Feather: The Currituck Shooting Club | 42 | |
| Once upon Corolla Island: The Whalehead Club | 48 | |
| Pine Island Audubon Sanctuary: The Pine Island Club | 55 | |
| Cottages | ||
| Old Nags Head and Southern Shores | 63 | |
| Old Nags Head: Beach Cottage Row | 67 | |
| The Outlaw Cottage | 70 | |
| The Winston Cottage | 73 | |
| The Whedbee Cottage | 74 | |
| Frank Stick and the Southern Shores Flat Top | 77 | |
| The First Southern Shores Flat Top: The Stick-Miller Home | 85 | |
| "Portsmouth Tide": The Graves Cottage | 86 | |
| "Craving Nostalgia": The Taylor-Smith-Covington Cottage | 89 | |
| "Barefoot Elegance": The Smith-Millican-Garrett Home | 92 | |
| "The Pink House": The Roth Cottage | 95 | |
| "Pink Perfection": The Pipkin Cottage | 97 | |
| Appendix | The Lifesaving Stations: Where Are They Now? | 100 |
| Bibliography | 104 | |
| Glossary | 107 | |
| Index | 109 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Jeffrey Blevins
reviewed Outer Banks Architecture: An Anthology of Outposts, Lodges and Cottages on March 24, 2008
Outer Banks Architecture: An Anthology of Outposts, Lodges and Cottages
Conquering Gotham tells the history of the building of Penn Station and the building of the Long Island Railroad (LIRR). The story is fraught with ego, engineering feats and sacrifice of the common worker like most Gilded Age histories. The struggle of the conquering the east river and the tunnels being built is the primary story in the book with little actually devoted to Penn Station other than being a building out of place and time. The book also covers the typical Tammany Hall corruption and the Pennsylvania railroad's fall from grace under Cassatt. Overall the book had a tendency to ramble and did not really live up to what I was expecting. I would have liked to hear more about the actual station (at least equal in coverage to the tunnels) and a greater focus on the politics of the time instead of the roundabout way it was approached. If you are a true gilded age aficionado it is still worth the time to take a look at but for a casual reader or someone interested in urban history you should probably pass.
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