The framed houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725 / Abbott Lowell Cummings.

Main entry:

Cummings, Abbott Lowell, 1923-2017, author.

Title & Author:

The framed houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725 / Abbott Lowell Cummings.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1979.

Description:

xiv, 261 pages : illustrations ; 27 x 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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

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."-- Amazon.com.

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ISBN:

0674316800
9780674316805
0674316819
9780674316812

Subject:

Wooden-frame houses Massachusetts.
Architecture Massachusetts History.
Architecture, Colonial Massachusetts.
Architecture, Domestic Massachusetts.
Architecture United States English influences.
Historic buildings Massachusetts.
Maisons en bois Massachusetts (Colonie)
Architecture Massachusetts (Colonie) 17e siècle.
Architecture Massachusetts (Colonie) 18e siècle.
Architecture coloniale Massachusetts (Colonie)
Architecture domestique Massachusetts (Colonie)
Architecture États-Unis Influence anglaise.
Monuments historiques Massachusetts.
Architecture Massachusetts Histoire.
Architecture coloniale Massachusetts.
Architecture.
Architecture, Colonial.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture English influences.
Historic buildings.
Wooden-frame houses.
Haus
Architecture, Modern Massachusetts History.
World War, 1914-1918 Great Britain Fiction.
Large print books.
Massachusetts.
United States.
Great Britain Fiction.
Massachusetts Massachusetts Bay region Timber framed houses Architectural features, 1625-1725

Form/genre:

History.
Love stories.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 131937
Call No.: M2602; ID:85-B23562
Status: Available

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