Product Description: “Of all the books about Galveston, one of the best continues to be architect Howard Barnstone’s The Galveston That Was, published many years ago. This poignant and vivid record of the great mansions and public buildings of the historic island city by the late Houston architect is credited as being a catalyst in the preservation and restoration movement in Galveston...read more

Product Description: The Beinecke Library, one of the world’s greatest repository of books and manuscripts documenting the humanities, is also one of the gems of 20th-century modernist architecture. This book takes the visitor through the building with gorgeous views of the Gordon Bunshaft structure and into the reading room, with essays by library curators on the treasures it holds...read more