num_pages: 251
description: The Guide is an excellent reference book for historians, genealogists, architects, master builders, or collectors. You will find it invaluable due to the many old family estates featured. This book will make an important addition to anyone's heritage collection or early architecture collection.This book is the first book to cover completely 950 rewarding old houses from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, some original and restored by expert and untiring research. Moreover, it lists the many private homes which you may visit by unprecedented invitation. With the Guide to call your attention to their noteworthy features. Here you may study and compare the famous open houses ...in the Northern states. They are different as were the men who created them. You will marvel at the flying double staircase and mantelpiece said to have been inspired by an angel in Columbia Falls, Maine; the Victorian, the Georgian facade that so perfectly reveals Lady Pepperrell's aristocratic taste; American's rich store of late 18th century woodwork in Rhode Island; the Pennsylvania Dutch kitchens that are a match for modern functionalism; Shaker, Adam, Elizabethian, Midieval, Gothic, Palladian, Corinthian, Federal, McIntire, Classical Revival, Greek Revival &amp; Colonial style homes and interiors and hundreds of other truly superb achievements in the design, furnishing, and gardens of our early homes.
language: English
title: Guide To Early American Homes - North
titlecomplete: Guide To Early American Homes - North
series: A Guide To Early American Homes
publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.