{{Short description|American architectural historian (1939–2019)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = James Moore Goode | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1939|9|17}} | birth_place = Statesville, North Carolina, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|12|12|1939|9|17}} | death_place = Washington, D.C., U.S. | resting_place = | other_names = | alma_mater = University of South Carolina (BA)<br />University of Virginia (MA)<br />George Washington University (PhD) | occupation = {{hlist|Historian|writer}} | years_active = | employer = | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse = | children = | signature = }}
'''James Moore Goode''' (September 17, 1939 – December 12, 2019) was a historian based in Washington, D.C. He wrote a number of books about the history of architecture and statues in Washington, D.C.
==Early life== James Moore Goode was born on September 17, 1939, in Statesville, North Carolina. His father was a corporate treasurer. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Carolina in 1964<ref name="obit">{{Cite news |url=https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2020/02/05/obituary-james-moore-goode-1939-2019 |title=Obituary: James Moore Goode, 1939–2019 |date=February 5, 2020 |last=Longstreth |first=Richard |website=Society of Architectural Historians |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026040812/https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2020/02/05/obituary-james-moore-goode-1939-2019 |archive-date=October 26, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="wapo">{{Cite news |last=Barnes |first=Bart |date=January 7, 2020 |title=James Goode, Historian of Washington Statues and Architecture, Dies at 80 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/james-goode-historian-of-washington-statues-and-architecture-dies-at-80/2020/01/07/97c3a16e-30c8-11ea-91fd-82d4e04a3fac_story.html |access-date=October 26, 2022 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> and a Master of Arts in history from the University of Virginia in 1966.<ref name="obit"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://uvamagazine.org/articles/on_common_grounds |title=On Common Grounds |work=University of Virginia Magazine |year=2018 |last1=Budd |first1=Ken |last2=Kinlaw |first2=Bernadette |last3=MacFarlan |first3=Jodi |last4=McDougall |first4=Diane J. |last5=Poole |first5=Sarah |access-date=October 26, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://searcharchives.library.gwu.edu/repositories/2/resources/160 |title=James Goode papers |website=George Washington University |access-date=October 26, 2022}}</ref> His unpublished master's thesis was titled "The Debating Societies Maintaining the Great Patronage of the Student Bodies."<ref>{{cite book|editor1=R. Eric Platt|editor2=Holly A. Foster|year=2021|title=Persistence Through Peril|url={{Google books|zQhBEAAAQBAJ|page=173|plainurl=yes}}|page=173|access-date=October 26, 2022}}</ref> He later attended George Washington University to earn a PhD in American Studies in 1995,<ref name="obit"/> with a dissertation on Thomas Ustick Walter under the direction of Richard W. Longstreth.<ref>James Moore Goode, "Architecture, Politics, and Conflict: Thomas Ustick Walter and the Enlargement of the United States Capitol, 1850–1865." Ph.D. dissertation, 1995, {{ProQuest|304186275}}.</ref>
==Career== After graduating in 1966, Goode came to Washington, D.C. to teach at George Mason University.<ref name="wapo"/> From 1968 to 1970, Goode worked for two years in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress as a reference librarian.<ref name="obit"/><ref name="wapo"/> In 1970, Goode was hired by Richard Howland to manage architectural records at the Smithsonian Institution. In 1971, Goode was appointed as curator of the Smithsonian Institution and held that role for 16 years. He resigned in 1988 to attend George Washington University.<ref name="obit"/><ref name="wapo"/> After completing his PhD in 1995, Goode became the curator of the archives of the B. F. Saul Company. He worked as a curator of the Washingtoniana collections of Albert H. Small that were gifted to George Washington University.<ref name="obit"/>
Starting with his work at the Smithsonian, Goode wrote a number of books about the history of architecture and statues in Washington, D.C. In 1974, Goode wrote ''The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C.'' (later expanded and renamed ''Washington Sculpture: A Cultural History of Outdoor Sculpture in the Nation's Capital'', released in 2008).<ref name="obit"/><ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/653724 |title=Book Reviews – James M. Goode. Washington Sculpture: A Cultural History of Outdoor Sculpture in the Nation's Capital. |last=Savage |first=Kirk |journal=Winterthur Portfolio |year=2010 |volume=44 |issue=2/3 |pages=252–253 |doi=10.1086/653724 |s2cid=162266166 |access-date=October 26, 2022|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Goode then published ''Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed Buildings'' in 1979 and ''Best Addresses: One Hundred Years of Washington's Distinguished Apartment Homes'' in 1988. In 2012, Goode wrote ''Capital Views'', a book assembling rare photograph of Washington, D.C. In 2015, Goode wrote ''The Evolution of Washington, D.C.'', which included images from Albert Small's Washingtoniana collection. ''Capital Houses of Washington, D.C. and Environs 1735–1965'' appeared in 2015.<ref name="obit"/> The [https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1p5jkvq/alma991744363804896 photo archives] for ''The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C''., ''Best Addresses'', ''Washington Sculpture'', and ''Capital Houses'' are held in the [https://www.nga.gov/research/library/imagecollections.html Department of Image Collections] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324082235/https://www.nga.gov/research/library/imagecollections.html |date=March 24, 2014 }} at the National Gallery of Art.
==Personal life== thumb|right|Grave of Goode at Oak Hill Cemetery Goode died at a hospital in Washington, D.C., on December 12, 2019.<ref name="wapo"/>
==Awards and legacy== In 2006, Goode donated a collection of photographs to the Thomas Balch Library from the 18th and 19th centuries.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=tbl/viletbl00080.xml |title=A Guide to the James Goode Photograph Collection |website=University of Virginia |access-date=October 26, 2022}}</ref>
In 2015, Goode was awarded the Visionary Historian Award from the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.<ref name="obit"/><ref name="wapo"/>
In 2017, Goode was awarded the District of Columbia's Lifetime Achievement Award in Historic Preservation.<ref name="obit" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2017/10/02/renwick-gates-smithsonian-libraries/ |title=The Renwick Gates in the Smithsonian Libraries |last=Blakely |first=Julia |date=October 2, 2017 |website=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=October 26, 2022}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{commons category-inline}} * George Washington University Special Collections: [https://searcharchives.library.gwu.edu/repositories/2/resources/160 James Goode papers] * National Gallery of Art, [https://www.nga.gov/research/library/imagecollections.html Department of Image Collections] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324082235/https://www.nga.gov/research/library/imagecollections.html |date=March 24, 2014 }}: [https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1p5jkvq/alma991744363804896 James Goode photo archive] * [https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=tbl/viletbl00080.xml James Goode Photograph Collection] in the Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, Virginia. * Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Reading Room: [https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/403_good.html James M. Goode Collection] * Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art: [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/james-m-goode-papers-8981 James M. Goode papers, 1858–1982] * Photographs 1974–2015 from Goode's books [https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1p5jkvq/alma991744363804896 in the library Image Collections] at the National Gallery of Art. * [https://www.whitehousehistory.org/authors/james-m-goode White House Historical Association: James M. Goode] * Donald R. Kennon and James M. Goode on [https://www.c-span.org/video/?185035-1/presidential-inaugurations "Presidential Inaugurations" (C-SPAN)]
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