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Earle Sumner Draper
Earle Sumner Draper (1893–1994) was an American town planner and a landscape designer, who is famous for having coined the term "urban sprawl". A number of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Projects His works include: *Silvertown Historic Mill Village, Thomaston, GA * Alexander Manufacturing Company Mill Village Historic District, roughly bounded by Victory & Wilson Drs., Allen & S. Broadway Sts. Forest City, NC (Draper, Earle Sumner), NRHP-listed * Cliffside Public School, 1 N. Main St. Cliffside, NC (Draper, Earle Sumner), NRHP-listed * Druid Hills Historic District, roughly bounded by Meadowbrook Terrace, US 25N, Ashwood Rd., and Ridgewood Ave. Hendersonville, NC (Draper, Earle Sumner), NRHP-listed * Erlanger Mill Village Historic District, roughly bounded by Winston Rd., Short, 7th, Hames, Second Rainbow, Park Circle, & Olympia Sts. Lexington, NC (Draper, Earle Sumner), NRHP-listed *Hayes Barton Historic District, roughly bounded by St. Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban Sprawl
Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a city." Urban sprawl has been described as the unrestricted growth in many urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for urban planning. In addition to describing a special form of urbanization, the term also relates to the social and environmental consequences associated with this development. Medieval suburbs suffered from loss of protection of city walls, before the advent of industrial warfare. Modern disadvantages and costs include increased travel time, transport costs, pollution, and destruction of the countryside. The cost of building urban infrastructure for new developments is hardly ever recouped through property taxes, amounting to a subsidy for the developers and new residents at the expense of existing property taxpayers. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McAdenville Historic District
McAdenville Historic District is a national historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ... located at McAdenville, Gaston County, North Carolina. It encompasses 93 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 7 contributing structures in the mill village associated with McAden Mills, a cotton mill chartered by the state legislature in 1881. The buildings were built between about 1884 and 1959, and include notable examples of Late Victorian and Italianate architecture. Notable buildings include 15 brick mill worker houses, remnants of McAden Mill No. 1 (1881–82) and McAden Mill No. 2 (1884–85), McAden Mill No. 3 (1906–07), and Pharr Corporate Offices (1906, c. 1955, c.1965) redesigned by Earle Sumner Draper. It was listed on the National Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Landscape Architects
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Lake Lure, North Carolina
Lake Lure is a town in Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States. In 2020 the town population was 1,634. Lake Lure was incorporated in 1927, and acquired the lake after which it is named in 1965. History In 1902, Dr. Lucius B. Morse and his brothers Hiram and Asahel purchased around Chimney Rock (within present-day Chimney Rock State Park) for $5,000. They later acquired enough land in the area to bring the total to . Lucius Morse's wife Elizabeth is credited with naming the lake (and the town). Included in the area that became the lake, according to a blog entry by Russ Meade, was the town of Buffalo, believed to have been named for a nearby mountain that resembled a buffalo. In 1925, the Morse family created Carolina Mountain Power Company and funded the construction of a dam on the Broad River (through a mortgage) which produced the lake after which the town is named. The full impoundment of Lake Lure was completed in 1927. At ordinary water levels, Lake Lure cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sequoyah Hills, Tennessee
Sequoyah Hills is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, named for the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah (c. 1767–1843), inventor of the Cherokee alphabet.History of Kingston Pike/Sequoyah Hills Retrieved: 20 December 2010. It is located off , between the city's downtown and West Knoxville. Initially developed in the 1920s, Sequoyah Hills was one of Knoxville's first suburbs and today is home to some of the city's most affluent residents. The neighborhood contains numerous notable examples of mid-20th century residential architecture, with houses designed by architects such as [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MidTown (Columbus, Georgia)
Midtown (not to be mistaken for Midtown, New York) has an area of six square miles in Columbus, Georgia. It possesses residential neighbourhoods, eleven public schools, the Columbus Museum, the Columbus Public Library, the Muscogee County Public Education Center, the Columbus Aquatic Center and the international headquarters for Aflac. The population of Midtown is 22,000 residents living in 8500 households and is 10 kilometres north of Fort Benning on I-185. Midtown's boundaries are Talbott on and Warm Springs Roads to the north; I-185 to the east; Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to the south; and 10th Avenue to the west. Midtown is centrally located to Columbus' many cycling amenities; Fall Line Trace bike trail parallels Midtown's northern boundary and the Riverwalk is one mile (1.6 km) away.MidTown, Inc. http://www.midtowncolumbusga.org/ History Shortly after the founding of Columbus, Georgia in 1828, wealthy Columbites began to look beyond the original city limits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gainesville, GA
The city of Gainesville is the county seat of Hall County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 42,296. Because of its large number of poultry processing plants, it is often called the "Poultry Capital of the World." Gainesville is the principal city of, and is included in, the Gainesville, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, Georgia Combined Statistical Area. History Gainesville was established as "Mule Camp Springs" by European-American settlers in the early 1800s. Less than three years after the organization of Hall County on December 15, 1818, Mule Camp Springs was renamed "Gainesville" on April 21, 1821. It was named in honor of General Edmund P. Gaines, a hero of the War of 1812 and a noted military surveyor and road-builder. Gainesville was selected to be the county seat and chartered by the Georgia General Assembly on November 30, 1821. A gold rush that began in nearby L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicopee Mill And Village
Chicopee is a former mill village located approximately four miles south of downtown Gainesville, and is in Hall County, Georgia, United States. Chicopee was designed in 1925 by Earle Sumner Draper for the Chicopee Manufacturing Corporation, a subsidiary of The Johnson and Johnson Company. It was his last mill town project and his most successful. It was the personal project of Robert Wood Johnson II Robert Wood "General" Johnson II (April 4, 1893 – January 30, 1968) was an American businessman. He was one of the sons of Robert Wood Johnson I, the co-founder of Johnson & Johnson. He turned the family business into one of the world's l .... Construction started in 1927 and the village consisted of 217 homes, a company store, medical office, and the mill across the street. The mill is the earliest example of a large single story textile plant built in the South. The village is unincorporated and has a population of approximately 350. Originally the property was laid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutherfordton, North Carolina
Rutherfordton (usually pronounced ( ) or ( ), among other similar variations) is a town in Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 4,213 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat. Geography Rutherfordton is concentrated around the intersection of U.S. Route 221 and North Carolina Highway 108. The town of Ruth borders Rutherfordton to the north, and the town of Spindale borders Rutherfordton to the east. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 4.2 square miles (10.8 km), all land. Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 United States census, there were 3,640 people, 1,882 households, and 893 families residing in the town. 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 4,131 people, 1,602 households, and 1,047 families residing in the town. The population density was 990.1 people per square mile (382.5/km). There were 1,765 housing units at an average density of 423.0 per square mile (163.4/km). The r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutherfordton-Spindale Central High School
Rutherfordton-Spindale Middle School is a historic school building located in Rutherfordton, North Carolina, Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Hugh Edward White (1869-1939) and built in 1924–1925. It is a three-story, "L"-plan, Neoclassical architecture, Classical Revival style red brick building. The classroom wing was rebuilt following a fire in 1938. A separate Vocational Education Building was added to the school in 1939. It sits on landscaped grounds designed by Earle Sumner Draper (1893–1994). It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 as the Rutherfordton-Spindale Central High School. References High schools in North Carolina School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Neoclassical architecture in North Carolina School buildings completed in 1925 Buildings and structures in Rutherford County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Rutherfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacolet, SC
Pacolet is a town in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 2,235 at the 2010 census. History Pacolet had its start in 1859 when the railroad was extended to that point. The name Pacolet may be derived from the Cherokee word meaning "horse", or it may be named after one Mr. Pacoley, a pioneer French settler. Historic sites The Marysville School, Mulberry Chapel Methodist Church, Nuckolls-Jefferies House, Pacolet Mill Office, Pacolet Mills Cloth Room and Warehouse, Pacolet Mills Historic District, and Pacolet Soapstone Quarries are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which 0.34% is water. Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,274 people, 957 households, and 590 families residing in the town. 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 2,235 people, 962 households, and 625 families residing in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
