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The framed houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725 / Abbott Lowell Cummings.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating NA7235.M4 C85 1979
Available from offsite location
LIBRA NA730.M4 C85 1979
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cummings, Abbott Lowell, 1923-2017, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wooden-frame houses--Massachusetts.
- Wooden-frame houses.
- Architecture--Massachusetts--History.
- Architecture.
- Architecture, Colonial--Massachusetts.
- Architecture, Colonial.
- Architecture, Domestic--Massachusetts.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Historic buildings.
- History.
- Massachusetts.
- Architecture--United States--English influences.
- United States.
- Historic buildings--Massachusetts.
- Architecture--English influences.
- Genre:
- History.
- Love stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 261 pages : illustrations ; 27 x 31 cm
- large print
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1979.
- Summary:
- In a rich blend of architectural and social history, Abbott Lowell Cummings reconstructs some of our nation's first houses. This is a splendid story of innovations, of restless, migratory people and their architectural and social responses to their environment. It is the first chapter in the long saga of America's preoccupation with technology, showing how it affected the early American home.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The English background
- First shelters and indigenous building forms
- The house plan
- The builders and their resources
- Assembly and rearing of the house frame
- English regional derivations and evolutionary trends
- The chimney
- Exterior finish
- Interior finish
- Toward an American architecture
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of William B. Bassett; additional copy Gift of Satoko Parker.
- ISBN:
- 0674316800
- 9780674316805
- 0674316819
- 9780674316812
- OCLC:
- 3893734
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