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Early architecture of Cape May County, New Jersey : the heavy timber frame legacy Joan Berkey
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UNJ NA 730 .N36 B47 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berkey, Joan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wooden-frame buildings--New Jersey--Cape May County.
- Wooden-frame buildings.
- Wooden-frame houses--New Jersey--Cape May County.
- Wooden-frame houses.
- Heavy timber construction--New Jersey--Cape May County.
- Heavy timber construction.
- Architecture--New Jersey--Cape May County.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 310 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.
- Other Title:
- Early architecture of Cape May County
- Place of Publication:
- Cape May Court House, NJ : Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society, c2008.
- Contents:
- The county's 17th-century settlers
- The heavy timber frame legacy
- The builders and their resources
- First-person accounts
- The house plan
- Massing and fenestration
- Fireplaces and chimneys
- Exterior finishes
- Interior finishes
- The house frame and its components
- The roof and its frame
- First-period buildings and the Reeves-Iszard-Godfrey house
- First-period buildings : upper precinct
- First-period buildings : middle precinct
- First-period buildings : lower precinct
- Second-period buildings
- Third-period buildings
- The moved building
- Lost Cape May County.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-297) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780615190969
- 0615190960
- OCLC:
- 316100825
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