A Building History Of Northern New England

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The first and only full-scale technical and stylistic analysis of 200 years of architectural evolution in northern New England

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Genre : Architecture
Author : James L. Garvin
Publisher : UPNE
Release : 2002-05
File : 222 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1584650990


Field Guide To New England Barns And Farm Buildings

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A generously illustrated handbook for identifying and understanding structures that symbolize the region's unique cultural and historical landscape.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Thomas Durant Visser
Publisher : UPNE
Release : 1997
File : 232 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0874517710


Historical Dictionary Of New England

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New England, the most clearly defined region in the United States, includes the six states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. First colonized by the French in 1604 and the British in 1607, the New England colonies were the first to secede from the British Empire and were among the first states admitted to the union. No region has claimed more presidents as native sons (seven) or produced more men and women of exceptional accomplishment and fame. Many Americans see New England as a touchstone for the founding ideas of the nation, and the region served as a source of inspiration for many artists and writers. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of New England contains a chronology, an introduction, appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, places, institutions, and events. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about New England.

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Genre : History
Author : Peter C. Holloran
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release : 2017-05-01
File : 661 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781538102190


Reading Rural Landscapes A Field Guide To New England S Past

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William Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Nowhere can you see the truth behind his comment more plainly than in rural New England, especially Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and western Massachusetts. Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the landscape, these features speak to us if we can hear them and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and color photos. Provides the keys to interpret human artifacts in fields, woods, and roadsides and to reconstruct the past from surviving clues. Perfect to carry in a backpack or glove box. A unique and valuable resource for road trips, genealogical research, naturalists, and historians.

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Genre : Nature
Author : Robert Stanford
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Release : 2015-07-30
File : 257 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780884483700


On The Road North Of Boston

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First published in 1988 by the New Hampshire Historical Society, and long since sought after, On the Road North of Boston is back in print. This richly illustrated, entertaining book is an invaluable resource for New Hampshire residents and students of the state's history alike. Nine extensively researched and meticulously prepared chapters depict historic taverns and tavern society of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New England. Donna-Belle and James Garvin vividly reconstruct the physical landscape: the taverns themselves, the network of roads, travel conditions, traffic and commerce. They immerse the reader in the contemporary tavern atmosphere: encounters with fellow travelers, food, drink, entertainment, and hospitality in its earliest incarnations "on the road north of Boston." On the Road North of Boston contains rare and wonderful black-and-white illustrations of authentic tavern signs and furnishings, broadsides advertising tavern entertainments, early photographs and drawings of tavern buildings, road signs, vehicles, and bridges, portraits of tavern keepers, stage drivers, and itinerant performers. This book offers modern New England residents and travelers rich chronicles and visions of an age long past.

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Genre : History
Author : Donna-Belle Garvin
Publisher : UPNE
Release : 2003
File : 244 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1584653213


Two Carpenters

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Journeyman -- Performances -- Urban building -- Master builder -- Change -- Double parlor -- Cottage and mansion -- Contractor -- Monuments.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : J. Ritchie Garrison
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release : 2006
File : 236 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1572334851


Sightseeking

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A startlingly original synthesis of keen observation and interpretive skill that will transform one s understanding of New England s man-made landscape"

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Genre : Historic sites
Author : Christopher J. Lenney
Publisher : UPNE
Release : 2005
File : 380 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1584654635


A Field Guide To American Houses

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The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses. This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Virginia Savage McAlester
Publisher : Knopf
Release : 2015-07-29
File : 881 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780385353878


The Natural Building Companion

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"Natural buildings not only bring satisfaction to their makers and joy to their occupants, they also leave the gentlest footprint on the environment. In this complete reference to natural building philosophy, design, and technique, Jacob Deva Racusin and Ace McArleton walk builders through planning and constructio. The Natural Building Companion--provides the tools necessary to understand basic principles of building science, including structural and thermal engineering, and hydrodynamics. This guide offers thorough, up-to-date, and advanced installation details and performance characteristics of straw-bale, straw-clay, woodchip-clay, and cellulose wall systems, as well as earthen and stone wall systems and a variety of framing, roofing, flooring, mechanical system, and finishing options. This fully-illustrated volume informs professionals making the transition from conventional building, homeowners embarking on their own construction, or green builders who want comprehensive guidance on natural-building options. The book, part of the The Yestermorrow Design/Build Library, is accompanied by an instructional DVD"--

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Jacob Deva Racusin
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Release : 2012
File : 450 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781603583398


Historic Preservation Technology

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This introduction to historic preservation goes well beyond the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and shows how wood, stone, masonry, and metal were used in the past and how adaptive re-use can be employed to bring modern amenities to historic structures. The book covers all aspects of the exterior and interior building fabric, including windows, roofing, doors, porches, and electrical and mechanical systems for both residential and small-scale commercial buildings. Richly illustrated with photographs showing typical elements of historic buildings, decay mechanisms, and remediation techniques, the book also contains a variety of useful case studies and features a companion Website that offers dozens of additional images and resources.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Robert A. Young
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release : 2008-03-21
File : 448 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780471788362