Historic New England

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

Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson :rediscovering the founding fathers of American architecture /Hugh Howard.

xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, Includes information on Charles Bulfinch, classicism, Charles Louis Clerisseau, Elenora Coolidge, Maria Hadfield Cosway, Derby Mansion, Federal Hall (New York), Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Monticello, Andrea Palladio, Charles Willson Peale...

Date: 2006.

Creators: Howard, Hugh, 1952-

GUSN: 359566

Call Number: Stacks NA2543.S6 H69 2006

The power of objects in eighteenth-century British America /Jennifer Van Horn.

xvii, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates; 25 cm., "Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. [Van Horn] investigates these diverse artifacts--from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic d...

Creators: Van Horn, Jennifer, author. Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture,

GUSN: 359592

Call Number: Coll E162.V36 2017

Suspended worlds :historic theater scenery in northern New England /Christine Hadsel ; with contributions from Peter Gilbert, Richard Kerschner, Mary Jo Davis and Peter Miller ; photography by Carolyn L. Bates.

xii, 188 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 32 cm, A glorious celebration of historic stage scenery in northern New England. Painted between 1890 and 1940, the curtains can be as luminous as a Hudson valley landscape, or as simple as a cluster of local advertisements surrounding a generic, rural, f...

Creators: Hadsel, Christine, author.

GUSN: 359593

Call Number: Coll ND2887.U6 H33 2015

The Mystic River :a natural and human history and recreation guide including Winchester, Arlington, Medford, Malden, Somerville, Chelsea, Everett, Charlestown, Cambridge & Belmont /Richard H. Beinecke.

297 pages

Date: [2013].

Creators: Beinecke, Richard H, author.

GUSN: 359919

Call Number: Stacks F72.M7 B45 2013

The Naylor collection :the complete history of photography /[creative direction, Jonathan Barkan ; photography, Brian Smith and others].

36 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 42 cm + 1 DVD-ROM (sound : color ; 4 3/4 in.)

Date: Ã2005.

Creators: Naylor, Thurman F. Barkan, Jonathan. Smith, Brian (Photographer)

GUSN: 359995

Call Number: Stacks TR655.N39 2005

Gamble House :Building paradise in California /essays by Edward R. Bosley, Anne Mallek, Ann Scheid, and Robert Winter ; photographs by Alexander Vertikoff.

200 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm, "For more than a century the Gamble House has stood on a promontory overlooking the Arroyo Seco, a thin riverbed that meanders down from the San Gabriel Mountains through Pasadena, California. For much of that time the house has been open to the public. More ...

Date: 2015.

Creators: Bosley, Edward R. Mallek, Anne E. Scheid, Ann, 1940- Winter, Robert. Vertikoff, Alexander.

GUSN: 359996

Call Number: Stacks NA7238.P37 G36 2015

Global objects :toward a connected art history /Edward S. Cooke, Jr.

327 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm, "The established narrative of art history is traditionally narrated through national or cultural lenses that focus on specific artistic practices characteristic of a given nation or culture: bronze in ancient China, architecture in ancient Rome, or oil painti...

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

GUSN: 359997

Call Number: Coll NK1105.C67 2022

Experiencing American houses :understanding how domestic architecture works /Elizabeth Collins Cromley.

xviii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm., "This book encourages readers to think creatively about buildings in terms of their function and how these functions have changed over time in American history. The work presents material culture as lived experience and is designed to expand the encounter w...

Creators: Cromley, Elizabeth C., author.

GUSN: 359998

Call Number: Stacks NA7205.C755 2022

Portrait of John Adams

Black and white lithograph of John Adams seated with book in hand; column and drapes behind. Print of painting by Gilbert Stuart.

Date: ca. 1827

Maker: After Stuart, Gilbert (Painter) Doggett, Messrs. (Publisher)

Material: ink, lithography, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 3899

Accession Number: 1977.239

Portrait of James Monroe

Three-quarter frontal view of James Monroe wearing high white collar with bow and double breasted coat with six inside buttons; mottled background; simple back frame.

Date: 1800-1833

Maker: Gimbrede, T. (Engraver)

Material: engraving (printing process), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 3900

Accession Number: 1977.240

Card Table

Card table. Mahogany with basswood drawer supports and braces for top; soft maple swing rail; white pine and other secondary wood. Rectangular one-baord folding top and swing leg. One drawer with original brass handle. Shaped molding at lower edge of skirt. Rests on beaded Marlborough legs. R...

Date: 1760-1775

Maker: Attributed to Sewall, Samuel (Cabinetmaker)

Material: mahogany (wood), maple (wood), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3901

Accession Number: 1977.241

Desk

Slant top desk, ball feet, two long drawers below two shorter ones; interior with four drawers; original engraved brasses.

Date: 1725-1740

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), maple (wood), Norway spruce (wood)

GUSN: 3902

Accession Number: 1977.244

Portrait of John Winslow

Portrait of John Winslow, half-length facing right; subject is wearing wig and red coat. Spandrels in lower canvas only; narrow moulded wood frame painted gold. Paper is pasted directly to wooden frame covered by a piece of coarse linen tacked to back.

Date: 1740-1750

Maker: Possibly Badger, Joseph, 1708-1765 (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 3903

Accession Number: 1977.245

Portrait of Penelope Winslow

Portrait of Penelope Winslow, half-length facing right; subject has brown hair and is wearing a blue dress. Spandrels in lower corners only. Paper is pasted directly to wooden frame covered by a piece of coarse linen tacked to back.

Date: 1740-1750

Maker: Possibly Badger, Joseph, 1708-1765 (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 3904

Accession Number: 1977.246

Chamberstick

Push-up chamberstick with round lipped pan to which is attached round shaft with push-up attachment at side; over lipped bobache at top; engraved handle ring at edge of pan riveted in three places.

Date: 1795-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), engraving (printing process)

GUSN: 3905

Accession Number: 1977.247

Chamberstick

Round chamberstick with attached ring handle; round candleholder attached to bottom at center of rimmed pan, ring turned with overchanging lip at end.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 3906

Accession Number: 1977.248

Chamberstick

Round chamberstick with pan base; attached finger grop; urn shaft with band near base; protuding lip at top.

Date: 1900-1991

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 3907

Accession Number: 1977.249

Chamberstick

Round brass pan with lipped edge; central round shaft riveted to base at bottom with lead weight and brass rivet; ring handle attached at side of pan with copper pins; top of shaft has sloped built-in bobache; incised rings on pan and shaft.

Date: 1780-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), copper (metal), incising, lead (metal)

GUSN: 3908

Accession Number: 1977.250

Chamberstick

Rectangular beveled pan with canted sides and lipped edge supporting push-up shaft with incised rings and rectangular bobache; riveted handle ring at edge with copper rivets; push up pad missing.

Date: 1775-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), copper (metal)

GUSN: 3909

Accession Number: 1977.251

Telescope

round pine case covered in leather and fitted at either end with brass fixture and glass lenses.

Date: 1745-1775

Maker: Ayscough (Maker)

Material: brass (alloy), glass (material), leather, pine (wood)

GUSN: 3910

Accession Number: 1977.252

Table Top Extension

extension top made to go over dropleaf table dining table (1977.254a). Pair of semi-circular unmolded halves. Bracing screwed underneath with blue felted cloth to protect table surface.

Date: 1870-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood)

GUSN: 3911

Accession Number: 1977.254BC

Drop-leaf Table

Rectangular top, molded Marlborough legs, double beaded edge at corners, scalloped skirt; original hinges.

Date: 1760-1775

Maker: Attributed to Sewall, Samuel (Cabinetmaker)

Material: mahogany (wood), maple (wood), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3912

Accession Number: 1977.254A

Tall Case Clock

Tall case clock with a domed hood, arched case door, molded base, original brass dial with floral chasing and finials, brass works; brass capitals, dials and fluting of column; original brass escutcheon.

Date: 1750-1770

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), Norway spruce (wood), brass (alloy)

GUSN: 3913

Accession Number: 1977.255

Sofa

Sofa with serpentine back and front with scrolled arm supports. Carved front feet on casters. Plush upholstery. Deeply gouged back crest rail.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood)

GUSN: 3914

Accession Number: 1977.256

Drop-leaf Table

Drop-leaf table. Mahogany with birch hinge rails; white pine and other secondary wood. Rectangular top with rectangular leaves. Top and leaves each constructed from one board. Swing hinge rails thinner than tops of legs, and not parallel to side rails when swing leg closed. Top set slightly ask...

Date: 1755-1770

Maker: Attributed to Sewall, Samuel (Cabinetmaker)

Material: birch (wood), mahogany (wood), Norway spruce (wood)

GUSN: 3915

Accession Number: 1977.257

Sideboard

Sideboard with serpentine-shaped front; wide doors top to bottom at either side of two drawers above two doors; ebony and holly wood banded inlay around top edge; inlaid spandrels in all four corners of all four doors; beaded edge to drawer fronts with band of holly wood inlay just inside; lion's he...

Date: 1795-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), ebony (wood), holly (wood), mahogany (wood), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3916

Accession Number: 1977.258

Fireplace Shovel

Shovel with brass finials ending in a ball going down to a bulbous turning. Shovel has flaired bottom.

Date: 1768-1833

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), iron (metal)

GUSN: 3917

Accession Number: 1977.260.1

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