Historic New England

Inventing Boston :design, production, and consumption /Edward S. Cooke, Jr.

viii, 221 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm, During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Boston was both a colonial capital and the third most important port in the British empire, trailing only London and Bristol. Boston was also an independent entity that pursued its own interests and ...

Creators: Cooke, Edward S., Jr. (Edward Strong), 1954- author.

GUSN: 357778

Call Number: Stacks NK838.B67 C665 2019

The greatest beach :a history of the Cape Cod National Seashore /Ethan Carr.

xii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Creators: Carr, Ethan, 1958- author.

GUSN: 357779

Call Number: Stacks F72.C3 C37 2019

Joiner's work /by Peter Follansbee.

xiv, 247 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm, "Forget what you think about 17th-century New England furniture. It's neither dark nor boring. Instead, it's a riot of geometric carvings and bright colors--all built upon simple constructions that use rabbets, nails and mortise-and-tenon joints. Peter F...

Creators: Follansbee, Peter, author.

GUSN: 357780

Call Number: Coll TT195.F65 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

Shaker vision :seeing beauty in early America /Joseph Manca.

x, 391 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm, "The Shakers are known for self-denial and austerity in everyday living and their material world, as embodied by the heavenly simplicity and purity of their chairs and blanket chests. Yet the believers also enjoyed a diversity of visual ...

Creators: Manca, Joseph, 1956- author.

GUSN: 357781

Call Number: Stacks BX9789.A47 M36 2019

Votes for women! :a portrait of persistence /Kate Clarke Lemay ; with Susan Goodier, Martha S. Jones, and Lisa Tetrault.

xi, 289 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits, map ; 28 cm, "Marking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Votes for Women celebrates past efforts while looking toward what actions we might take in the future to further support women's equality"--Int...

Creators: Lemay, Kate Clarke, 1978- author. Goodier, Susan, author. Jones, Martha S., author. Tetrault, Lisa (Lisa Marguerite), author. National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution),

GUSN: 357786

Call Number: Stacks KF4895.L46 2019

Newport :the artful city /John R. Tschirch.

240 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 x 25 cm, This is a richly illustrated portrait of Newport, Rhode Island as a work of urban art, from colonial times to the present, both documented and celebrated in the maps, paintings, photographs, poetry and prose of renowned artists ...

Creators: Tschirch, John R., author.

GUSN: 357788

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 T73 2020

Rather elegant than showy :the classical furniture of Isaac Vose /Robert D. Mussey Jr., Clark Pearce.

x, 293 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 x 25 cm, "Isaac Vose was well known in his day among style-conscious Bostonians, his name synonymous with furniture of the highest quality and advanced design. His shop, the "first on Boston Neck," was in a prominent location and served ...

Creators: Mussey, Robert D., author. Pearce, Clark, author.

GUSN: 357791

Call Number: Coll NK2439.V37 M87 2018 (and 1 more)

A history of Boston in 50 artifacts /Joseph M. Bagley.

xii, 208 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm, "An illustrated history of the city of Boston, as seen through fifty objects of archaeological significance, ranging from chamber pots to cowbells"--Provided by publisher.

Creators: Bagley, Joseph M., 1985- author.

GUSN: 357793

Call Number: Stacks F73.39.B34 2016

An American palace :Chicago's Samuel M. Nickerson House /David Bagnall ; with an introduction by Richard H. Driehaus.

119 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 30 cm

Date: Ã2011.

Creators: Bagnall, David. Driehaus, Richard H. Richard H. Driehaus Museum.

GUSN: 359489

Call Number: Stacks NA7511.4.C45 B34 2011

Edwin Lutyens :country houses : from the archives of Country life /Gavin Stamp.

192 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm, "Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), perhaps the greatest British architect of the twentieth century, was introduced by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, his celebrated collaborator, to Edward Hudson, the founder of the great British magazine Country Life, in 1889. Hudson th...

Date: 2001.

Creators: Stamp, Gavin.

GUSN: 359490

Call Number: Stacks NA997.L8 S73 2001

Great houses of London /James Stourton ; photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg.

328 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm, The great houses of London represent one of the marvels of English architecture and yet they are almost entirely unknown. They are for the most part disguised behind sober facades but their riches within are astonishing. From the romantic 17th century Ashburn...

Date: 2012.

Creators: Stourton, James. Von der Schulenburg, Fritz.

GUSN: 359491

Call Number: Stacks NA7512.4.L6 S86 2012

The White House :the history of an American idea /William Seale.

xiv, 336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm, For two centuries the White House has served not only as the official residence of the president of the United States, but as the symbolic home of its owners, the American people. The White House: The History of an American Idea celebrates the man...

Creators: Seale, William, author. White House Historical Association.

GUSN: 359492

Call Number: Stacks F204.W5 S44 1992

Technology in the country house /Marilyn Palmer and Ian West.

ix, 205 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Creators: Palmer, Marilyn, 1943- author. West, Ian (Writer on building), author.

GUSN: 359493

Call Number: Coll TX298.P35 2016

The National Trust book of great houses of Britain /Nigel Nicolson.

287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Date: Ã1978.

Creators: Nicolson, Nigel. National Trust (Great Britain)

GUSN: 359506

Call Number: Stacks NA7620.N5 1969

Through an uncommon lens :the life and photography of F. Holland Day /Patricia J. Fanning.

xxiii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 255 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm, "Based in the Boston area, F. Holland Day (1864-1933) was a central figure in artistic circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Publisher of Oscar Wilde and Stephen Crane, mentor to a young Ka...

Creators: Fanning, Patricia J., author.

GUSN: 359507

Call Number: Stacks TR140.D37 F44 2008

The national Capitol :its architecture, art and history /by George C. Hazelton, Jr. ; illustrated.

[8], 287 pages : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 24 cm

Creators: Hazelton, George Cochrane, 1868-1921, author.

GUSN: 359508

Call Number: Rare F204.C2 H4 1897

The Train on the Beach :Forgotten Railroads that Transformed Winthrop, Orient Heights, and Revere Beach, Massachusetts /William Lieberman.

xiv, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Creators: Lieberman, William, author.

GUSN: 359509

Call Number: Stacks HE2771.M4 L54 2017

Boston history for kids :from Red Coats to Red Sox with 21 activities /Richard Panchyk ; foreword by Michael Dukakis.

ix, 129 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 x 28 cm, "Few American cities are as steeped in history as Boston. Starting with its Native American and Puritan roots, through its pivotal role in the Revolutionary War and its many contributions to art and literature, Boston has earned its reputation as a m...

Creators: Panchyk, Richard, author. Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- writer of foreword.

GUSN: 359510

Call Number: Stacks F73.33 .P36 2018

House stories :the meanings of home in a New England town /Beth Luey.

x, 182 pages ; 23 cm, "Historic houses adorned with plaques populate New England like nowhere else in the country. These plaques note the construction year and original owner of the house, but they tell nothing about the rich lives of the people who lived there. In House Stories, Beth Luey takes rea...

Creators: Luey, Beth, author.

GUSN: 359511

Call Number: Stacks F74.F1 L83 2017

United tastes :the making of the first American cookbook /Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald.

xi, 351 pages ; 24 cm, "The Library of Congress has designated American Cookery (1796) by Amelia Simmons one of the eighty-eight 'Books That Shaped America.' Its recognition as 'the first American cookbook' has attracted an enthusiastic modern audience of historians, food journalists, and general re...

Creators: Stavely, Keith W. F., 1942- author. Fitzgerald, Kathleen, 1952- author.

GUSN: 359512

Call Number: Stacks TX703.S53 S73 2017

Circle around Monadnock :time travel with horses /Francelia Mason Clark with Pam Godin and Shelley Mozier.

143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm, "Finding and following one of New Hampshire's oldest trails into history--on horseback . . . Francelia Clark finds and follows one of the oldest trails in New Hampshire's Monadnock region into history--on horseback. Along the way she stu...

Creators: Clark, Francelia Mason, 1938- author. Godin, Pam, author. Mozier, Shelley, author.

GUSN: 359513

Call Number: Stacks F42.C5 C55 2018

The music of early American clocks, 1730-1830 /Kate Van Winkle Keller and Gary R. Sullivan.

259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Creators: Keller, Kate Van Winkle. Sullivan, Gary R. Willard House and Clock Museum (North Grafton, Mass.)

GUSN: 359514

Call Number: Coll TS543.U6 K45 2017

H.H. Richardson :three architectural tours /Ken Bressler.

103 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Creators: Bresler, Kenneth, author. Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886.

GUSN: 359515

Call Number: Stacks NA735.B7 B74 2018

Along the Valley Line :the history of the Connecticut Valley Railroad /Max R. Miller.

xv, 138 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm., The Connecticut Valley Railroad once carried both passengers and freight along the west bank of the Connecticut River between Hartford and Old Saybrook. Completed in 1871, today the railroad is known throughout New England for the nostalgic ...

Creators: Miller, Max R., author.

GUSN: 359516

Call Number: Stacks TF25.C65 M55 2017

Get out of my room! :a history of teen bedrooms in America /Jason Reid.

viii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "Teenage life is tough. You're at the mercy of parents, teachers, and siblings, all of whom insist on continuing to treat you like a kid and refuse to leave you alone. So what do you do when it all gets to be too much? You retreat to your room (and maybe slam...

Creators: Reid, Jason, 1974- author.

GUSN: 359517

Call Number: Stacks NK2117.T44 R45 2017

The long journeys home :the repatriations of Henry 'åOpåukaha'ia and Albert Afraid of Hawk /Nick Bellantoni.

xxix, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm., "åOpåukaha'ia (ca. 1792-1818), also known as Henry Obookiah, and Itankusun Wanbli (ca. 1879-1900), also known as Albert Afraid of Hawk, lived almost a century apart and came from different Indigenous nations--Hawaiian and Lakota. Yet the circumstances ...

Creators: Bellantoni, Nicholas F., author.

GUSN: 359518

Call Number: Stacks CC79.5.H85 B45 2018

The farmhouse book :tradition, style, and experience /David Larkin.

222 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Date: 2005.

Creators: Larkin, David, 1936-

GUSN: 359542

Call Number: Stacks NA8208.L37 2005

Adventures with old houses /by Richard Hampton Jenrette ; foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales ; principal photography by John M. Hall.

223 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm, Jenrette describes his restoration of several historic buildings throughout the country, including Roper House (9 East Battery) in Charleston and Millford Plantation near Pinewood.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Jenrette, Richard H.

GUSN: 359543

Call Number: Stacks NA7207.J45 2000

Capes :design ideas for renovating, remodeling, and building new /Jane Gitlin.

218 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm., Re-introduces readers to the classic Cape Cod home, featuring more than twenty case studies of updated houses.

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: Gitlin, Jane.

GUSN: 359544

Call Number: Stacks NA7205.G52 2003

Maine antique digest :the Americana chronicles : 30 years of stories, sales, personalities, and scandals /edited by Lita Solis-Cohen.

448 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: Ã2004.

Creators: Solis-Cohen, Lita.

GUSN: 359545

Call Number: Coll NK1.M356 2004

Interior design and decoration.

vi, 699 pages illustrations 25 cm

Date: [1974]

Creators: Whiton, Augustus Sherrill, 1887-1961. Whiton, Augustus Sherrill, 1887-1961. Elements of interior design and decoration.

GUSN: 359546

Call Number: Coll NK2110.W55 1974

Early American wall stencils in color :full-size patterns traced in New England homes and stencils from early coverlets, together with complete directions showing how anyone can use them with ease /Alice Bancroft Fjelstul and Patricia Brown Schad with Barbara Marhoefer.

137 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: 1989.

Creators: Fjelstul, Alice Bancroft. Schad, Patricia Brown. Marhoefer, Barbara.

GUSN: 359547

Call Number: Coll TT270.F44 1989

Manufacturing modernism :Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, the W.C. Vaughan Co. /H. Reynolds Butler.

290, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 28 x 30 cm

Creators: Reynolds Butler, H., writer of added commentary. McMahon, Peter, 1957- author of introduction, etc.

GUSN: 359548

Call Number: Coll NA737.B68 M3 2018

Forgotten voices :the hidden history of a New England meetinghouse /Carolyn Wakeman.

ix, 273 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm, Told through the words of those whose lives the meetinghouse shaped, 'Facing the Past' uncovers a hidden past. It begins with the displacement of Indigenous people in the area before Europeans arrived, continues with disputes ove...

Creators: Wakeman, Carolyn, author.

GUSN: 359549

Call Number: Stacks F104.O36 W35 2019

Recipes for respect :African American meals and meaning /Rafia Zafar.

137 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., "Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a small tributary. Rec...

Creators: Zafar, Rafia, author.

GUSN: 359550

Call Number: Stacks E185.89.F66 Z34 2019

Restoring your historic house :the comprehensive guide for homeowners /Scott T. Hanson ; with photography by David J. Clough.

viii, 710 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm, This book does not repeat basic information that is readily available in many standard DIY books about carpentry, wiring, and plumbing. Rather, it shows how to adapt those DIY skills to the specialized needs of a historic house. Although there...

Creators: Hanson, Scott T., author. Clough, David J., photographer.

GUSN: 359551

Call Number: Stacks TH4816.H36 2019

Elmer Crowell :father of American bird carving, featuring masterworks from the Thomas M. Evans Jr. collection /by Stephen B. O'Brien Jr. and Chelsie W. Olney.

304 pages : color illustrations, photographs (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Creators: O'Brien, Stephen B., author. Olney, Chlesie W.

GUSN: 359552

Call Number: Coll NK4890.5 O37 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

Rufus Porter's curious world :art and invention in America, 1815-1860 /edited by Laura Fecych Sprague and Justin Wolff.

xiii, 137 pages : color illustrations, color facsimilies ; 27 x 29 cm, "An examination of Rufus Porter, an enigmatic but astonishingly productive American artist, inventor, and publisher. Presents his life and work in the context of the cultural, social, and technological networks that shaped innova...

Creators: Sprague, Laura Fecych, 1954- editor. Wolff, Justin P., editor. Pennsylvania State University Press, Bowdoin College. Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359553

Call Number: Coll ND237.P8135 R84 2019

Doris Duke's Shangri La :a house in paradise : architecture, landscape and Islamic art /edited by Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht ; foreword by Deborah Pope ; essays by Linda Komaroff [and others] ; organized by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art ; principal photography by Tim Street-Porter.

216 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 32 cm, Features Doris Duke's estate, Shangri La, and its influential synthesis of modernist architecture and Islamic art and design. Situated on five acres of terraced gardens and pools overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Honolulu's Diam...

Creators: Mellins, Thomas. Albrecht, Donald. Pope, Deborah. Komaroff, Linda, 1953- Street-Porter, Tim. Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.

GUSN: 359554

Call Number: Stacks NA7511.4.H66 D67 2012

Riches, rivals & radicals :100 years of museums in America /Marjorie Schwarzer.

x, 263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm, "As author Marjorie Schwarzer tells us, a look at the past century of America's museums reveals a captivating if slightly imperfect real-life masterpiece, flowing with a vibrant palette of wealth and ambition, accented by bold patches of jealousy, g...

Date: Ã2006.

Creators: Schwarzer, Marjorie, 1957- American Association of Museums.

GUSN: 359555

Call Number: Coll AM11.S35 2006

Warren H. Manning, landscape architect and environmental planner /edited by Robin Karson, Jane Roy Brown, and Sarah Allaback.

xvii, 398 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 29 cm., Warren H. Manning's (1860-1938) national practice comprised more than sixteen hundred landscape design and planning projects throughout North America, from small home grounds to estates, cemeteries, college campuses, pa...

Creators: Karson, Robin S., editor. Brown, Jane Roy, editor. Allaback, Sarah, 1965- editor. Library of American Landscape History.

GUSN: 359556

Call Number: Stacks SB470.M25 W37 2017

William Kent :designing Georgian Britain /edited by Susan Weber ; with contributions by Catherine Arbuthnott [and 14 others].

xiii, 688 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm, "The most versatile British designer of the 18th century, William Kent (1685-1748) created a style for a new nation and monarchy. The scope of his achievements encompasses architecture, palatial interiors, elaborate gardens, and exquisite furniture. Among his...

Creators: Weber, Susan, 1954- editor.

GUSN: 359557

Call Number: Coll N6797.K4 W53 2013

Elizabethan architecture :its rise and fall, 1540-1640 /Mark Girouard.

xx, 516 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 31 cm,

Creators: Girouard, Mark, 1931- author.

GUSN: 359558

Call Number: Stacks NA965.G57 2009

Houses of the National Trust :outstanding buildings of Britain /Lydia Greeves.

400 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm, "The National Trust is one of the world's leading conservation organisations and now cares for over 350 historic properties, including over 200 houses. This book covers both great mansions, such as Petworth House and Kedleston Hall, and less grand, but equall...

Date: 2008.

Creators: Greeves, Lydia.

GUSN: 359559

Call Number: Stacks DA660.G745 2008

Guastavino vaulting :the art of structural tile /John Ochsendorf ; photographs by Michael Freeman.

255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Date: 2010.

Creators: Ochsendorf, John Allen. Freeman, Michael, 1945-

GUSN: 359560

Call Number: Stacks NA737.G79 O28 2010

The mate of the Daylight, and friends ashore /by Sarah Orne Jewett.

254 pages ; 16 cm

Creators: Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909, author. Whitman, Sarah, book designer. Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909. Landless farmer. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), Cairns Collection of American Women Writers.

GUSN: 359561

Call Number: Stacks PS2132.M38 1884

Drawn from nature & on stone :the lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane /Georgia B. Barnhill, Melissa Geisler Trafton.

105 pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm, An exhibition catalog accompanying the exhibition, Drawn from Nature & on Stone : The Lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane, at the Cape Ann Museum October 7, 2017-March 4, 2018.

Creators: Barnhill, Georgia Brady, 1944- author. Oaks, Martha, writer of foreword. Trafton, Melissa Geisler, author. Lane, Fitz Henry, 1804-1865. Lithographs. Cape Ann Museum,

GUSN: 359562

Call Number: Coll ND237.L27 C36 2017

Rediscovering an American Community of Color :the photographs of William Bullard, 1897-1917 /Nancy Kathryn Burns, Janette Thomas Greenwood.

127 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 31 cm, This book presents a photographic narrative of African American and Native American migration and resettlement in the aftermath of emancipation and reconstruction. Taken between 1897 and 1917 by itinerant photographer William Bullard of Worcester, M...

Creators: Bullard, William, 1876-1918, photographer. Burns, Nancy Kathryn, editor, author. Greenwood, Janette Thomas, editor, author. Worcester Art Museum, Clark University (Worcester, Mass.)

GUSN: 359563

Call Number: Stacks F74.W9 R43 2017

Musical clocks of early America, 1730-1830 :a catalogue raisonné /Gary R. Sullivan and Kate Van Winkle Keller.

389 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm, The 130 remarkable clocks documented by this study represent a high poin in the careers of American craftsmen between 1730 and 1830 ... This is the true story--the story of gifted immigrants from Europe who passed clockmaking skills to others, of clever local...

Creators: Sullivan, Gary R. Keller, Kate Van Winkle. Willard House and Clock Museum (North Grafton, Mass.)

GUSN: 359564

Call Number: Coll TS540.7.S85 M87 2017 c.1 (and 1 more)

Country acres and cul-de-sacs :Connecticut circle magazine reimagines the Nutmeg State, 1938-1952 /edited by Jay Gitlin.

xv, 301 pages ; 31 cm, "Examines how "Connecticut Circle" magazine helped shape the state of Connecticut between 1938 and 1952."--Provided by publisher.

Creators: Gitlin, Jay, editor.

GUSN: 359565

Call Number: Stacks F100.C6632 2019

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