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Somerset : an architectural history / Paul Baker Touart.
LIBRA NA730.M32 S668 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Touart, Paul Baker.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Maryland--Somerset County--Guidebooks.
- Architecture.
- Maryland--Somerset County.
- Somerset County (Md.)--History.
- Somerset County (Md.).
- Genre:
- Guidebooks.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 424 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis, Md. : Maryland Historical Trust ; Princess Anne, Md. : Somerset County Historical Trust, [1990]
- Summary:
- Winner of the 1991 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award of the Society of Architectural Historians for its "level of scholarly research, thoroughness, and imagination", this volume brings to print one of the least-known collections of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings in Maryland. The author interprets the buildings as they relate to historic themes that have shaped Eastern Shore and tidewater Chesapeake Bay life. It includes the social and economic history of the county and an extensive building survey.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1878399063
- 1878399004
- OCLC:
- 21584564
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