Historic preservation for a living city
Subtitle: Historic Charleston Foundation, 1947-1997
By: Robert R. Weyeneth.
Series: Historic Charleston Foundation studies in history and culture
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Historic Charleston Foundation (Charleston, S.C.) -- History.; Historic preservation -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century.; Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- South Carolina -- Charleston.; Charleston (S.C.) -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation.
Description: "With this book Robert R. Weyeneth charts the changing philosophy of the American preservation movement during the last half-century. Weyeneth traces Historic Charleston Foundation's pathbreaking approach to preservation, from the organization's establishment by a handful of Charlestonians to its current wide-ranging concern with the conservation or rural spaces in the surrounding region.

He argues that Historic Charleston Foundation has been a leader in broadening the field of historic preservation from its purely educational focus, concerned primarily with the establishment and operation of house museums, to its current scope as a form of urban and environmental planning."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-246) and index.