Author: Thomas C. Hubka
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584653721
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.
Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn
Author: Thomas C. Hubka
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584653721
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584653721
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.
Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn
Author: Thomas C. Hubka
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1684581354
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A classic work on farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders refreshed with a new introduction. Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn portrays the four essential components of the stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders that stand today as a living expression of a rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life. A visual delight as well as an engaging tribute to our nineteenth-century forebears, this book, first published nearly forty years ago, has become one of the standard works on regional farmsteads in America. This new edition features a new preface by the author.
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1684581354
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A classic work on farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders refreshed with a new introduction. Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn portrays the four essential components of the stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders that stand today as a living expression of a rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life. A visual delight as well as an engaging tribute to our nineteenth-century forebears, this book, first published nearly forty years ago, has become one of the standard works on regional farmsteads in America. This new edition features a new preface by the author.
Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings
Author: Thomas Durant Visser
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611680654
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A generously illustrated handbook for identifying and understanding structures that symbolize the region's unique cultural and historical landscape
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611680654
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A generously illustrated handbook for identifying and understanding structures that symbolize the region's unique cultural and historical landscape
Barns of Cape Cod
Author: Blandon Belushin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780764325649
Category : Barns
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Over 340 color photos display barns in the English and New England styles that dot the landscape of Cape Cod's fifteen townships, including many detail shots. Wooden and stone barns dating from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries appear, including barns for sheltering animals, grain, cranberries, strawberries, turnips, and asparagus.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780764325649
Category : Barns
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Over 340 color photos display barns in the English and New England styles that dot the landscape of Cape Cod's fifteen townships, including many detail shots. Wooden and stone barns dating from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries appear, including barns for sheltering animals, grain, cranberries, strawberries, turnips, and asparagus.
The Big House Library in Ireland
Author: Mark Purcell
Publisher: National Trust
ISBN: 9780707804163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1850 there were perhaps 2000 country houses in Ireland. Standing at the heart of its demesne, each Big House dominated its locality, but by the end of the 20th century, only a few hundred survived intact. No more than a handful were still in the possession of their original owners, or contained many of their original contents, including a substantial library. In some cases, this might well have been the only library in the district, though whether it was a carefully assembled collection or a haphazard accumulation of ancestral books would have varied from place to place. The National Trust in what is now Northern Ireland is responsible for most of the survivors. These collections have survived almost like time capsules, never subject to atmospheric pollution or the attentions of reforming librarians, and not heavily used in modern times. Many of their books contain the bookplates and ownership inscriptions of their long-dead owners, as well as instructions to binders, handwritten marginal notes and prices, and even the odd pressed flower; most are also in their original bindings. Together these features tell us a good deal about the tastes and interests of the people who owned them, and about the use, abuse and circulation of print across the whole of Ireland over a period of more than 400 years. Drawing on a wide range of previously untapped sources and evidence from the collections themselves, this lavishly-illustrated book is a must for anyone interested in the history of reading, collecting or country houses in Ireland.
Publisher: National Trust
ISBN: 9780707804163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1850 there were perhaps 2000 country houses in Ireland. Standing at the heart of its demesne, each Big House dominated its locality, but by the end of the 20th century, only a few hundred survived intact. No more than a handful were still in the possession of their original owners, or contained many of their original contents, including a substantial library. In some cases, this might well have been the only library in the district, though whether it was a carefully assembled collection or a haphazard accumulation of ancestral books would have varied from place to place. The National Trust in what is now Northern Ireland is responsible for most of the survivors. These collections have survived almost like time capsules, never subject to atmospheric pollution or the attentions of reforming librarians, and not heavily used in modern times. Many of their books contain the bookplates and ownership inscriptions of their long-dead owners, as well as instructions to binders, handwritten marginal notes and prices, and even the odd pressed flower; most are also in their original bindings. Together these features tell us a good deal about the tastes and interests of the people who owned them, and about the use, abuse and circulation of print across the whole of Ireland over a period of more than 400 years. Drawing on a wide range of previously untapped sources and evidence from the collections themselves, this lavishly-illustrated book is a must for anyone interested in the history of reading, collecting or country houses in Ireland.
The Big House
Author: George Howe Colt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439124914
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations interweaves Colt’s final visit with memories of a lifetime of summers. Run-down yet romantic, The Big House stands not only as a cherished reminder of summer’s ephemeral pleasures but also as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439124914
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations interweaves Colt’s final visit with memories of a lifetime of summers. Run-down yet romantic, The Big House stands not only as a cherished reminder of summer’s ephemeral pleasures but also as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life.
Outhouses of the East
Author: Ray Guy
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing (CN)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
This international classic celebrating outdoor conveniences is accented with humorous captions by Ray Guy.
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing (CN)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
This international classic celebrating outdoor conveniences is accented with humorous captions by Ray Guy.
The Guernsey House
Author: John McCormack
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Duncan's Tree House
Author: A. Vesey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780876147849
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Duncan experiences the worst night of his life when he decides to stay overnight in his new tree house.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780876147849
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Duncan experiences the worst night of his life when he decides to stay overnight in his new tree house.
The House at the End of the Road
Author: Kari Rust
Publisher: Owlkids
ISBN: 9781771473354
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A heartwarming read about the unexpected joys inside an old house
Publisher: Owlkids
ISBN: 9781771473354
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A heartwarming read about the unexpected joys inside an old house