Category: Architecture

• Who’s Reading What in Each State

  The Most Popular Book Genre In Each State https://flip.it/wuMdQt

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  March 25, 2025

  #books, #BookTok, Adventure, American History, Architecture, Audible, Audio book, Audiobooks, Autobiography, Biography, Culture, Fiction, Food History, Historical Fiction, History, Literary, Medical mystery, Memoir, mystery, Noir, Non-fiction

  #Fiction #mystery #crime, American History, audio books, Autobiographies, Biography, black-history, Fiction, Non-fiction

• Western Mexico: A Traveler’s Treasury

  

  A travel guide for the intellectually curious, Tony Burton’s Western Mexico: A Traveler’s Treasury provides an insider’s entry to this extraordinary region of Mexico. The book, published by Sombrero Press and now in its fourth edition is less about logistics and instead focuses on the myriad of reasons–historical, ecological, cultural, and/or scenic–that make each place…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  October 27, 2023

  Adventure, Architecture, Culture, Ethnic Enclaves, Food, Food History, Mexico, Mexico Travel, Non-fiction, Travel

  Angahuan, Angangueo, aqua Blanca Canyon Resort, Bolaños, Camino Real restaurant, Cookbooks, Copper Canyon, Diana Kennedy, El Molino hotel and restaurant, Guadalajara, Hotel Real de la Loma, If Walls Could Talk: Chapala’s historic buildings and their former occupants, Jocotepec, Junapeo, Lagos de Moreno, Lake Chapala, Manantlán, Manantlán Biosphere Reserve, MexConnect, Non-fiction, Our Lady of Sagrario festival, Pátzcuaro, Puerto Vallarta, Purépecha Indian style, Rancho San Cayetano, River Tuxpan, San Blas, Santa Clara del Cobre, Tamazula, Tamazula River, Tingambato, Travel, Yucatán, Zacatecas, Zitácuaro

• “Ladies of the Lights” Showcases Female Lighthouse Keepers

  

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  March 7, 2023

  #books, #BookTok, Adventure, Architecture, Book signings, Digital, Ghosts, Great Lakes, Hauntings, Historic Architecture, History, Lake Michigan, Lighthouse, mystery, Non-fiction, Shipwrecks, The History Press, Travel, True Crime

  #books, book signing, Death & Lighthouses on the Great Lakes, Dianna Stampfler, Great Lakes, Hauntings, History Press, Lake Michigan, Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses, mystery, Shipwrecks, Women Lighthouse Keepers

• AIA Guide to Chicago, Fourth Edition

  

  Celebrate Chicago’s architecture in AIA Guide to Chicago, Fourth Edition.

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  October 23, 2022

  #books, Architecture, Chicago, Historic Architecture

  AIA Chicago, AIA Guide to Chicago, American Institute of Architects Chicago, Architecture, Art Deco, Benjamin Albert Comm, Berean Baptist Church, Chicago, Eric Allix Rogers, Garfield BLVD. CTA Station, Hector Duarte, John Moutoussamy, Laurie McGovern Petersen, Nelson Harris, Richter's Food Products, The American Institute of Architects

• Haunted Lighthouses: Scary Tales of the Great Lakes

  

  Michigan is home to more lighthouses than any other state and about 40 of those are rumored to be haunted by the spirits of former keepers, mariners and others with ties to these historic beacons. Inside the pages of Michigan’s Haunted Lighthouses, long-time researcher, writer and promoter of all things Michigan, Dianna Stampfler, shares stories of…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  October 5, 2022

  #books, Adventure, American History, Architecture, Author event, Book signings, Culture, Ghosts, Great Lakes, Hauntings, Historic Architecture, History, Lake Michigan, Lighthouse, Michigan, Murder, mystery, Non-fiction, Shipwrecks, Travel, True Crime

  book signing, Great Lakes, Historic Architecture, Historical Society of Michigan, Mackiac City, Marquette Harbor Lightouse, Michigan, Michigan Maritime Museum, Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses, Point Iroquois, Seul Choix Point Lighthouse, Whitefish Point, Whitehall Michigan

• Windy City Blues

  In her fun very readable Windy City Blues (Berkley 2017; $16), Chicago author Renee Rosen again takes another slice of the city’s history and turns it into a compelling read. Rosen, who plumbs Chicago’s history to write such books as Dollface, her novel about flappers and gangers like Al Capone, and What the Lady Wants…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  February 15, 2022

  Amazon, American History, Architecture, Audiobooks, Authors, Berkley, Blues, Blues Highway, Chicago, Fiction, History, Jewish, Judaism, Music, Musician, Random House

  #bestsellingbooks, #books, #netgallery, #ReneeRosen, Architecture, Authors, Blues Highway, Chess Brothers, Chicago, Civil Rights, Dollface, Fiction, fun, Jazz, Music, musicians, New Orleans, Renee Rosen, Willie Dixon, Windy City

• The Attic on Queen Street by Karen White

  

  Karen White and I are talking about ghosts, particularly the ghosts haunting Melanie Middleton Trenholm in White’s latest novel, The Attic on Queen Street, the last in the series set in haunted Charleston, South Carolina. “Do you believe in ghosts?” she asks. Not really, I reply, but I also don’t like staying in places that…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  December 4, 2021

  Architecture, Fiction, Hauntings, mystery, Random House, Series, Suspense

  Charleston, Fiction, Ghosts, Haunted, History, Karen White, mystery, Mystery-Thriller, The Attic on Queen Street, Tradd Street Series

• Pullman: The Man, the Company, the Historic Park by Kenneth Schoon

  

                 Kenneth Schoon, professor emeritus at Indiana University Northwest, has immersed himself in the history of the Greater Chicago/Northwest Indiana area for decades, writing books starting from the area’s earliest beginnings such as “Calumet Beginnings: Ancient Shorelines and Settlements at the South End of Lake Michigan” and “Swedish Settlements on the South Shore of Lake…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  September 6, 2021

  American History, Architecture, Barack Obama, Chicago, Historic Architecture, History, Photography

  Chicago, Florence Hotel, historic, Historic Architecture, Historic Preservation, Historic Pullman Foundation, History Press, Kenneth Schoon, Museum, Non-fiction, Pullman, Pullman National Monument

• THE 17TH ANNUAL BEST BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCE 2020 AWARD RECIPIENTS

  

  American Book Fest has announced the winners and finalists of The 2020 Best Book Awards. Awards were presented for titles published in 2018-2020. Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of American Book Fest said this year’s contest yielded over 2,000 entries from mainstream and independent publishers. These were then narrowed down to over 400 winners and finalists in 90…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  March 28, 2021

  Animals, Architecture, Artists, Authors, Autobiography, Biography, Canines, Center Street Publishing, Cookbooks, Culture, Family, Female Voices, Fiction, Food, Food History, HarperCollins, Historic Architecture, History, Indiana University, Indiana University Press, Louise Nevelson, Penguin Random House, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Recipes, Science Fiction, self-help, Uncategorized

  American Book Fest, Book awards, Forge, HarperCollins, Independent publishing houses, John Wiley and Sons, NYU Press, Oxford Press, Penguin Random House, Routledge/Taylor and Francis, Sounds True, The White House Historical Association

• Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism during Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair

  

              When Rebecca Graff, a PhD student at the University of Chicago in need of a dissertation, was told by a professor that the view before them from the school’s Ida Noyes Hall was “a hundred years ago the center of the world,” she didn’t see the bucolic splendor of Jackson Park hugging the Lake…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  March 21, 2021

  American History, Architecture, Chicago, Chicago History Museum, Historic Architecture, History

  1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Charnley-Persky House Museum, Chicago, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gold Coast, Jackson Park, Louis Sullivan, Rebecca Graff, Urban Archaelogy