num_pages: 336
description: A dual history of the Colt family and their summer house on Cape Cod recounts the house's construction one hundred years earlier, including five generations of family events and the family's last month in the house.
language: English
title: The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
titlecomplete: The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
genres: History, Biography, Memoir, Architecture, Autobiography, American History, Biography Memoir, Travel, Nonfiction, Family
ratings_count: 3557
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Massachusetts Book Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Scribner