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978-0-89587-192-3
0-89587-192-0
$14.95 paperback
8" x 9"
114 pages black-and-white photographs, appendixes,
bibliography, index
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The 4 million annual visitors
to North Carolina's Outer Banks would be amazed if they could see the
place as it was 150 years ago, when there was no human habitation on the
oceanfront. The few villages huddled on the sound side of the barrier
islands, away from the vengeful Atlantic.
That began to change after
the Civil War, when the government made the shipping lanes off the Outer
Banks less hazardous by constructing lifesaving stations and a new
generation of lighthouses. Around that same time, wealthy
Northeasterners began buying Outer Banks property to create exclusive
hunt clubs, and the affluent citizens of North Carolina's upper
Albemarle started building cottages at Old Nags Head. The late 1940s saw
the beginning of another vernacular style--the famous Flat Top cottages
of Southern Shores.
The facts, anecdotes, and
photos in Outer Banks Architecture form an anthology of the
area's most notable structures. These range from the simple (like the
Outlaw Cottage at Old Nags Head) to the spectacular (like the Whalehead
Club in Corolla). If you've never seen Frank Stick's original Flat Top,
the Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station (where two restored stations of
different eras stand on the same site), or the Currituck Shooting Club
(the oldest hunt club in North America), this book will help you peel
back today's development and discover the Banks as they were in days
past.
about the author
Marimar McNaughton is a freelance writer whose articles have
appeared in Our State, Outer Banks Magazine, and other
publications. She lives in Southern Shores, North Carolina.
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