Old American Houses
Author : Henry Lionel Williams
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Houses and Homes
Author : Barbara J. Howe
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780761989295
Book Description
This 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
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588344258
Book Description
Celebrating 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
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Book Description
Overlooking 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 Queens
Author : Rob MacKay
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 146710678X
Book Description
Queens, New York, boasts a rich history that includes dozens of poorly publicized but historically impressive houses. A mix of farmsteads, mansions, seaside escapes, and architecturally significant community dwellings, these homes were owned by America's forefathers, nouveau riche industrialists, Wall Street tycoons, and prominent African American entertainers from the Jazz Age. Rufus King, a senator and the youngest signer of the US Constitution, operated a large family farm in Jamaica, while piano manufacturer extraordinaire William Steinway lived in a 27-room, granite and bluestone Italianate villa in Astoria. Local musicians include Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, and Lena Horne. Through more than 200 photographs, Historic Houses of Queens explores the borough's most notable residences--their architecture, owners, surrounding neighborhoods, peculiarities, and even their fates as some vanished due to financial problems or fires.
Historic Houses of Early America
Author : Elise Lathrop
Publisher :
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 35,17 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Architecture, Colonial
ISBN :
Book Description
A record of historic houses by towns and states.
Governor's Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America, 1607-1783
Author : Hoke P. Kimball
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0786470518
Book Description
This 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
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780719047275
Book Description
Why 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.
Restoring Your Historic House
Author : Scott T Hanson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1684751578
Book Description
Although there are other books about renovating old houses, this is the first that prioritizes the identification and preservation of the historic, character-defining features of a house as a starting point in the process. That is the purpose of this book: to describe and illustrate a best-practices approach for updating historic homes for modern life in ways that do not attempt to turn an old house into a new one. The book also suggests many ways to save money in the process, without settling for cheap or inappropriate solutions. Scott Hanson is a historic-building preservation professional and has 40 years' experience rehabilitating historic houses. He has illustrated this authoritative book with hundreds of step-by-step photos, illustrations, charts, and decision-making guides. Interspersed throughout are photo essays of 13 restored historic houses representing a range of periods and architectural styles: Italianate, Victorian, Queen Anne, Federal, Colonial, Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Ranch, Adobe, Craftsman, Shingle, and Rustic. With interior and exterior photography by David Clough, these multi-page features show what can be achieved when a historic home is renovated with a desire to preserve or restore as much historic character as possible.
Dutch Colonial Homes in America
Author : Roderic H. Blackburn
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Book Description
This 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.
