Author: Wendell Garrett Publisher: ISBN: 9783822882788 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
Tracing some of the finest buildings and historic interiors of the American east coast, the entire range of Colonial design is covered, from the Puritan simplicity of the early days to the Georgian elegance of classic architecture and interiors.
Author: Roderic H. Blackburn Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 246
Book Description
This lavishly-illustrated volume provides an unprecedented look at twenty-eight houses (plus eleven barns and other structures) built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Dutch colonists in the north-eastern United States, primarily in upstate New York and along the Hudson River Valley, on Long Island and Staten Island, and in New Jersey. An authoritative work-- written by eminent experts in the field-- "Dutch Colonial Homes in America" explores the homes in their broader social context by focusing on the historical and religious forces of the times. This book is the first to investigate the meaning of the home and its aesthetics for the Dutch in America, and also the first to look at these homes as a form of art and craft and, importantly, the influence this form and these people had on the shape of the American house to come. The 200 spectacular new color photographs here are beautifully styled in a manner that recalls the paintings of Vermeer and evoke what might have been the ambiance of these homes hundreds of years ago.
Author: James D. Kornwolf Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801859861 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 542
Book Description
Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities - their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes - as they extended their hold on the land.
Author: Rexford Newcomb Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486157393 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 172
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Classic study by noted authority traces Spanish architectural influence in Florida, the Gulf Coast, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. 195 photographs and 50 measured drawings.
Author: Rosemary G. Rennicke Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 200
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A guide to classic colonial style for the modern home covers fabric, furniture, and finishing touches and features photographs of examples of colonial decorating.
Author: Hoke P. Kimball Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786470518 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 492
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This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony and ends with American independence. In addition to the 13 colonies that became the United States in 1783, the study includes three colonies in present-day Florida and Canada--East Florida, West Florida and the Province of Quebec--obtained by Great Britain after the French and Indian War.
Author: Wendell Garrett
Author: Roderic H. Blackburn
Author: James D. Kornwolf
Author: Harold Donaldson Eberlein
Author: Rexford Newcomb
Author: Hugh Morrison
Author: Mark E. Reinberger
Author: Rosemary G. Rennicke
Author: Hoke P. Kimball
Author: Robin Langley Sommer