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Author: Bruce Irving
Publisher: The Countryman Press
Published: 2011-08-23
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 0881509272
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Read the stories behind the scenery: Short, rich, uncommonly engaging histories and descriptions of New England's most notable and recognizable features are accompanied by pitch-perfect photos by one of the region's best architectural photographers."--P. [4] of jacket.
Author: Len Rubenstein
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Published: 1998-07-01
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9780500950494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHonored as the birthplace of the Revolution, the six states that comprise New England are home to some of this country's most beautiful and cherished villages -- places that preserve and reflect its architectural and cultural legacy. Len Rubenstein's photographs celebrate all the delights of New England: the fishing villages and towns of the rocky Atlantic Coast, the highlands of its mountain ranges, and the quiet, exquisitely preserved communities in the river valleys. One of the most splendid repositories of American institutional architecture is found in New England's public meeting halls and churches, and in the industrial mills and factories of the nineteenth century. There is also a rich tradition of domestic architecture: seaside homes clad in weathered gray shingles, white clapboard houses surrounding village greens, and exuberant Victorian gingerbread homes. And, as this charming calendar demonstrates, New England is justly famous for its seasons, especially its autumn, when the landscape seems to be on fire with the vivid reds, oranges, and yellows of the foliage.
Author: John Hayward
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Published: 1839
Total Pages: 540
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 904
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elaine Louie
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0743203755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom colonial farmhouses in the Rhode Island countryside to shingled beach cottages on Martha's Vineyard, this lush tour of some of New England's most inventive and quintessentially American interiors reveals the unique regional style that has come to define our country's idea of home. Color photos.
Author: James Bentley
Publisher: Most Beautiful . . .
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500288382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVillages are the very embodiment of Englishness. The village inn and the local farm, great houses, humble cottages and beautiful country gardens speak of a way of life that has developed peacefully since Anglo-Saxon times. A few days spent in England's idyllic villages offers urban dwellers and foreign visitors a revitalizing glimpse of a more tranquil existence, full of history, legend, literature and artistic heritage. The richness and diversity of the English village is recorded here in absorbing texts by James Bentley and magnificent photography by Hugh Palmer. Grouped by area - northern, midland, eastern, southern and western - and sub-divided by county, this is a seductive celebration of our most beautiful villages.
Author: John Hayward
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-09-10
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 3368756834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1839.
Author: Christopher Fitz-Simon
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780500019986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhotographs and commentary highlight some of the most beautiful towns and villages of Ireland.
Author: Sumner Chilton Powell
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2019-02-12
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0819572683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPulitzer Prize Winner: “A meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts.” —Time In addition to drawing on local records from Sudbury, Massachusetts, the author of this classic work, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History, traced the town’s early families back to England to create an outstanding portrait of a colonial settlement in the seventeenth century. He looks at the various individuals who formed this new society; how institutions and government took shape; what changed—or didn’t—in the movement from the Old World to the New; and how those from different local cultures adjusted, adapted, competed, and cooperated to plant the seeds of what would become, in the century to follow, a commonwealth of the United States of America. “An important and interesting book . . . to the student of institutions, even to the sociologist, as well as to the historian.” —The New England Quarterly
Author: Joseph S. Wood
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2002-09-24
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780801866135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew England colonists, Wood argues, brought with them a cultural predisposition toward dispersed settlements within agricultural spaces called "towns" and "villages." Rarely compact in form, these communities did, however, encourage individual landholding. By the early nineteenth century, town centers, where meetinghouses stood, began to develop into the center villages we recognize today. Just as rural New England began its economic decline, Wood shows, romantics associated these proto-urban places with idealized colonial village communities as the source of both village form and commercial success.
