Old American Houses
Author: Henry Lionel Williams
Publisher:
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13:
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Houses and Homes
Author: Barbara J. Howe
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780761989295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume in the Nearby History series helps the reader document the history of a home. The reader will learn to examine written records, oral testimonies, visual sources, and the house's surroundings. The author covers American housing patterns, the individual characteristics of houses in different regions, construction techniques and materials, household technology, and family life styles. Houses and Homes is Volume 2 in The Nearby History Series.
Domesticating History
Author: Patricia West
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2013-09-03
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1588344258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelebrating the lives of famous men and women, historic house museums showcase restored rooms and period furnishings, and portray in detail their former occupants' daily lives. But behind the gilded molding and curtain brocade lie the largely unknown, politically charged stories of how the homes were first established as museums. Focusing on George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and the Booker T. Washington National Monument, Patricia West shows how historic houses reflect less the lives and times of their famous inhabitants than the political pressures of the eras during which they were transformed into museums.
Historic Houses of the Hudson River Valley, 1663-1915
Author: Gregory R. Long
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOverlooking the majestic Hudson River, the Hudson Valley has long been a favored place to live. Historic Houses of the Hudson River Valley is a sumptuous presentation of 33 houses in the region, ranging from the earliest Dutch cottages still extant to the grand Gothic and Italianate revival, stately Georgian, Federal, and beaux-arts country homes of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Historic Houses of Early America
Author: Elise Lathrop
Publisher:
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13:
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Governor's Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America, 1607-1783
Author: Hoke P. Kimball
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2017-05-11
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 0786470518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony and ends with American independence. In addition to the 13 colonies that became the United States in 1783, the study includes three colonies in present-day Florida and Canada--East Florida, West Florida and the Province of Quebec--obtained by Great Britain after the French and Indian War.
A History of American Architecture
Author: Mark Gelernter
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780719047275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy did the colonial Americans give over a significant part of their homes to a grand staircase? Why did the Victorians drape their buildings ornate decoration? And why did American buildings grow so tall in the last decades of the 19th century. This book explores the history of American architecture from prehistoric times to the present, explaining why characteristic architectural forms arose at particular times and in particular places.
Dutch Colonial Homes in America
Author: Roderic H. Blackburn
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lavishly-illustrated volume provides an unprecedented look at twenty-eight houses (plus eleven barns and other structures) built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Dutch colonists in the north-eastern United States, primarily in upstate New York and along the Hudson River Valley, on Long Island and Staten Island, and in New Jersey. An authoritative work-- written by eminent experts in the field-- "Dutch Colonial Homes in America" explores the homes in their broader social context by focusing on the historical and religious forces of the times. This book is the first to investigate the meaning of the home and its aesthetics for the Dutch in America, and also the first to look at these homes as a form of art and craft and, importantly, the influence this form and these people had on the shape of the American house to come. The 200 spectacular new color photographs here are beautifully styled in a manner that recalls the paintings of Vermeer and evoke what might have been the ambiance of these homes hundreds of years ago.
Paint in America
Author: Roger W. Moss
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780471144113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive volume on how paint has been used in the U.S. in the last 250 years. Eminent contributors cover the history of this medium in American buildings from the 17th century to the end of the 19th century. Contains a survey of practices and materials in England, cutting-edge techniques used by today's researchers in examining historic paints, fascinating case studies and an important chart of early American paint colors. Explains how to identify pigments and media, how to prepare surfaces for application and apply paint. Includes the chemical properties of paint with a table of paint components, plus a glossary and bibliography.
Historic Houses of Early America
Author: Elise Lathrop
Publisher:
Published: 1936
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
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