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A spirited look at how funeral homes impacted American consumerism, the built environment, and national identities. Funeral homesthose grand, aging mansions repurposed into spaces for embalming, merchandising, funeral services, and housing for the funeral director and their familyare immediately recognizable features of the American landscape, and yet the history of how these spaces emerged remains largely untold. In Preserved, Dean Lampros uses the history of this uniquely American architectural icon to explore the twentieth century's expanding consumer landscape and reveal how buildings can help construct identities. Across the United States, Lampros traces the funeral industry's early twentieth-century exodus from gloomy downtown undertaking parlors to outmoded Victorian houses in residential districts. As savvy retailers and accidental preservationists, funeral directors refashioned the interiors into sumptuous retail settings that stimulated consumer demand for luxury burial g

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A spirited look at how funeral homes impacted American consumerism, the built environment, and national identities. Funeral homesthose grand, aging... Read more

    Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
    Publication Date: 1/21/2024
    ISBN13: 9781421448404, 978-1421448404
    ISBN10: 1421448408

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

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    A spirited look at how funeral homes impacted American consumerism, the built environment, and national identities. Funeral homesthose grand, aging mansions repurposed into spaces for embalming, merchandising, funeral services, and housing for the funeral director and their familyare immediately recognizable features of the American landscape, and yet the history of how these spaces emerged remains largely untold. In Preserved, Dean Lampros uses the history of this uniquely American architectural icon to explore the twentieth century's expanding consumer landscape and reveal how buildings can help construct identities. Across the United States, Lampros traces the funeral industry's early twentieth-century exodus from gloomy downtown undertaking parlors to outmoded Victorian houses in residential districts. As savvy retailers and accidental preservationists, funeral directors refashioned the interiors into sumptuous retail settings that stimulated consumer demand for luxury burial g

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