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.
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.
Wood Houses
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural woodwork
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
While wood has been used in construction for thousands of years, researchers are still developing innovative systems to strengthen the role of wood as a sustainable material. Wood Houses documents wood used in residential building with profiles of houses, illustrated with the architect's own plans as well as hundreds of full-color interior and exterior photos. Inside are over fifty examples of cutting-edge architectural design that challenges previous conceptions about the use of wood in construction and shows how truly modern the medium can be in the hands of the world's greatest architects. Split into three categories (wood homes, wood construction, and tree houses), Wood Houses also includes a detailed look at wood furniture as well as a glossary that explains the different types of wood and their qualities.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural woodwork
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
While wood has been used in construction for thousands of years, researchers are still developing innovative systems to strengthen the role of wood as a sustainable material. Wood Houses documents wood used in residential building with profiles of houses, illustrated with the architect's own plans as well as hundreds of full-color interior and exterior photos. Inside are over fifty examples of cutting-edge architectural design that challenges previous conceptions about the use of wood in construction and shows how truly modern the medium can be in the hands of the world's greatest architects. Split into three categories (wood homes, wood construction, and tree houses), Wood Houses also includes a detailed look at wood furniture as well as a glossary that explains the different types of wood and their qualities.
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.
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.
A Little House Christmas Treasury
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060769181
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Celebrate the holidays with Laura and her family with stories from the beloved Little House books!
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060769181
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Celebrate the holidays with Laura and her family with stories from the beloved Little House books!
The Red Brick House
Author: Shirley Phillips Porter
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
ISBN: 9781419623745
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
''Where are we? Kady asked, as they turned to look at the entire room. They saw the kitchen had a wood-burning stove, no sink faucet, and no refrigerator.” ''I don't know, Allie said, “but look out this window, across the yard and the garden. Isn't that the cotton patch where Nanna said she had to cross the narrow dirt road to help pick cotton?” The sisters, Allie, Kady, Lindey, and their cousin, Taylor, have been transported into their great grandmother's world when she is five and then again when she is seven. During their second visit,Taylor's little brother, Lance, shows up, surprising everyone, except Minnie, who has expected him and is so pleased he has come with them. This fictional story is based on contemporary children, who are real, and the historical, real-life happenings of the Tucker family in the 1920's told by Jewel Tucker Phillips.
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
ISBN: 9781419623745
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
''Where are we? Kady asked, as they turned to look at the entire room. They saw the kitchen had a wood-burning stove, no sink faucet, and no refrigerator.” ''I don't know, Allie said, “but look out this window, across the yard and the garden. Isn't that the cotton patch where Nanna said she had to cross the narrow dirt road to help pick cotton?” The sisters, Allie, Kady, Lindey, and their cousin, Taylor, have been transported into their great grandmother's world when she is five and then again when she is seven. During their second visit,Taylor's little brother, Lance, shows up, surprising everyone, except Minnie, who has expected him and is so pleased he has come with them. This fictional story is based on contemporary children, who are real, and the historical, real-life happenings of the Tucker family in the 1920's told by Jewel Tucker Phillips.
Complete Plans for Building Horse Barns Big and Small
Author: Nancy W. Ambrosiano
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780914327912
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This completely revised color edition provides even more information to help horse lovers bring their dream of a horse barn to reality. Two leading barn design experts present outstanding examples of 22 different barns, from the elaborate to a simple run in shed. Determine the best type of barn to suit different numbers of horses, climate, function and zoning requirements. Receive sound guidance on site selection and prep, planning, materials, and construction. Whether you are a do-it-yourselfer or hiring an architect, one of these well designed, soundly constructed, attractive and economical barns could be more affordable than you think. Also includes a restoration guide for revitalizing the barn that already exists.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780914327912
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This completely revised color edition provides even more information to help horse lovers bring their dream of a horse barn to reality. Two leading barn design experts present outstanding examples of 22 different barns, from the elaborate to a simple run in shed. Determine the best type of barn to suit different numbers of horses, climate, function and zoning requirements. Receive sound guidance on site selection and prep, planning, materials, and construction. Whether you are a do-it-yourselfer or hiring an architect, one of these well designed, soundly constructed, attractive and economical barns could be more affordable than you think. Also includes a restoration guide for revitalizing the barn that already exists.
England's Thousand Best Houses
Author: Simon Jenkins
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780141006253
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
A connoisseur's lavishly illustrated tour of England's most treasured countryhouses is expertly ranked, county by county. Color and b&w photos.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780141006253
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
A connoisseur's lavishly illustrated tour of England's most treasured countryhouses is expertly ranked, county by county. Color and b&w photos.