Meetinghouses of early New England Peter Benes

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benes, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public buildings--New England--History.

Public buildings.

Wooden churches--New England--History.

Wooden churches.

Vernacular architecture--New England--History.

Vernacular architecture.

New England--Church history.

New England.

Physical Description:

vi, 446 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2012]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE BACKGROUND

1.The Meetinghouse and the Community

2.The Meetinghouse and the Church

3.The Builders

4.Seating the Congregation

pt. II THE ARCHITECTURE

5.Meetinghouses of the Seventeenth Century

6.Meetinghouses of the Eighteenth Century

7.Meetinghouses of the Early Nineteenth Century

pt. III CONCLUSIONS

8.Some Theoretical Models

9.Meetinghouse Architecture as Puritan Ecclesiology

10.A Fleeting Image.

Appendix A: Tables

Appendix B: Chronological checklist of meetinghouses in New England and Long Island, 1622-1830

Appendix C: Pinnacles, pyramids, and spires, 1651-1709

Appendix D: Enlargements of meetinghouses in New England by cutting the frame, 1723-1824

Appendix E: Citations of exterior painting, 1678-1828

Appendix F: Citations of interior painting, 1656-1817

Appendix G: Meetinghouse replications in New England, 1647-1828.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-428) and index.

ISBN:

9781558499102 (cloth : alk. paper)

1558499105 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

733731437

Publisher Number:

99948488356