Author: Sir Lawrence Weaver
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Cottages
Author: Sir Lawrence Weaver
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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The Berkshire Cottages
Author: Carole Owens
Publisher: Cottage Publications
ISBN: 9780918343000
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher: Cottage Publications
ISBN: 9780918343000
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Berkshires
Author: Carole Owens
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738536606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Those hustling to find lodging in the Berkshires today may not know they are repeating a two-hundred fifty- year-old ritual. In the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, the Berkshires played host to some of the most fascinating characters in American literature, politics, business, and the arts. They came with the warm breezes and left when they felt the first cold snap in the autumnal air. The Berkshires: Coach Inns to Cottages is a photographic record of Berkshire dwelling places from the rough simplicity of stagecoach inns to the glittering luxury of Gilded Age cottages. Come inside the Berkshire coach inns where "one might be subjected to disagreeable exposures," as Timothy Dwight noted in 1823. Come inside the Berkshire cottages where the rich and powerful were entertained according to the precepts of fashionable society. Use this volume as a guide to the many structures that have been preserved.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738536606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Those hustling to find lodging in the Berkshires today may not know they are repeating a two-hundred fifty- year-old ritual. In the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, the Berkshires played host to some of the most fascinating characters in American literature, politics, business, and the arts. They came with the warm breezes and left when they felt the first cold snap in the autumnal air. The Berkshires: Coach Inns to Cottages is a photographic record of Berkshire dwelling places from the rough simplicity of stagecoach inns to the glittering luxury of Gilded Age cottages. Come inside the Berkshire coach inns where "one might be subjected to disagreeable exposures," as Timothy Dwight noted in 1823. Come inside the Berkshire cottages where the rich and powerful were entertained according to the precepts of fashionable society. Use this volume as a guide to the many structures that have been preserved.
Houses of the Berkshires
Author: Richard S. Jackson
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Picturesque English Cottages and Their Doorway Gardens
Author: Peter Hampson Ditchfield
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Edith Wharton
Author: Hermione Lee
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307555852
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton-tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born into a wealthy family, Wharton left America as an adult and eventually chose to create a life in France. Her renowned novels and stories have become classics of American literature, but as Lee shows, Wharton's own life, filled with success and scandal, was as intriguing as those of her heroines. Bridging two centuries and two very different sensibilities, Wharton here comes to life in the skillful hands of one of the great literary biographers of our time.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307555852
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton-tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born into a wealthy family, Wharton left America as an adult and eventually chose to create a life in France. Her renowned novels and stories have become classics of American literature, but as Lee shows, Wharton's own life, filled with success and scandal, was as intriguing as those of her heroines. Bridging two centuries and two very different sensibilities, Wharton here comes to life in the skillful hands of one of the great literary biographers of our time.
Lenox
Author: Lenox Library Association
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467124052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"As he rode through mid-19th-century Lenox, Massachusetts, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "Perfect almost to a miracle." Founded in 1767, Lenox had sent Gen. John Paterson riding to the Revolutionary War 75 years earlier. Named the Shire Town because of its central Berkshires location, Lenox was home to the county courts. In the east, the center of a bustling glassworks and ironworks industry was situated by the Housatonic River. In the west, rolling hills and sparkling waters drew the literary lights to the New England Lake District. When the county seat moved to Pittsfield, fears of a local economic decline were unfounded with the arrival of the Gilded Age millionaires, who built stately seasonal estates with the charmingly ironic nickname of cottage. The exodus of the millionaires saw Lenox reinvent itself as a cultural and educational center, with private schools and performing arts organizations, Tanglewood chief among them, located on former estates. Change may come to Lenox again, but one constant remains throughout these past 250 years: its scenic beauty." -- From cover.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467124052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"As he rode through mid-19th-century Lenox, Massachusetts, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "Perfect almost to a miracle." Founded in 1767, Lenox had sent Gen. John Paterson riding to the Revolutionary War 75 years earlier. Named the Shire Town because of its central Berkshires location, Lenox was home to the county courts. In the east, the center of a bustling glassworks and ironworks industry was situated by the Housatonic River. In the west, rolling hills and sparkling waters drew the literary lights to the New England Lake District. When the county seat moved to Pittsfield, fears of a local economic decline were unfounded with the arrival of the Gilded Age millionaires, who built stately seasonal estates with the charmingly ironic nickname of cottage. The exodus of the millionaires saw Lenox reinvent itself as a cultural and educational center, with private schools and performing arts organizations, Tanglewood chief among them, located on former estates. Change may come to Lenox again, but one constant remains throughout these past 250 years: its scenic beauty." -- From cover.
Book of Crowns and Cottages
Author: Robert Peter Tristram Coffin
Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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The Outlook
Author: Lyman Abbott
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Outlook
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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