Early Nantucket and its whale houses / by Henry Chandlee Forman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forman, Henry Chandlee, 1904-1991

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nantucket Island (Mass.)--Description and travel.

Nantucket Island (Mass.).

Architecture, Domestic--Massachusetts--Nantucket Island.

Architecture, Domestic.

Travel.

Massachusetts--Nantucket Island.

Penn Provenance:

Atkin, Tony (donor)

Physical Description:

xi, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Nantucket [Mass.] : Mill Hill Press, 1991.

Summary:

"This is the story of the rise of that unique nautical island people who were to become masters of the whaling capital of the world - Nantucket. It tells of the humble beginnings of those who pioneered 'with love and skillets' and were said to have salt water in their veins and whale oil in their joints; of their fishing and sheep-shearing economies; of their sailboat voyaging, their rain-barrel water supplies and space-saving furniture; and of their boast's crew cottages and homey lean-to dwellings. The book forms a record of the Nantucketers' 17th and early-18th century type of British civilization, medieval in some aspects, like town planning and building methods, which persisted in considerable degree down to the Victorian era."--Jacket.

Contents:

At the sandy land far out to sea

The Indian-American island

The proprietors' early town

Rise of the whaling stations

Pioneering with love and skillets

"Tis tu I can't, and tu I ken"

The 'Sconset baulk and whale house

More about the whale houses

The two oldest known buildings on Nantucket

Whale houses and lean-tos on lower Broadway

Whale houses on middle Broadway

Upper Broadway whale cottages

Lanes through to Old Pump Square

First buildings in Nantucket Town

Transitional lean-tos and gambrels in and about the town.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-281) and index.

OCLC:

25370480