Historic New England

Exterior decoration : a treatise on the artistic use of colors in the ornamentation of buildings and a series of designs, illustrating the effects of different combinations of colors in connection with various styles of architecture / with a new introduction by Samuel J. Dornsife.

90 p. : col. ill. ; 30 x 39 cm.

Date: 1976, c1975.

Creators: Dornsife, Samuel Jonathan, 1916- F.W. Devoe & Co.

GUSN: 146971

Call Number: 85M Ovr. TT320.E98 1976

Manor houses and historic homes of Long Island and Staten Island, by Harold Donaldson Eberlein; with a frontispiece in photogravure and 75 illustrations in doubletone.

4 p. ¾., vii-x, [1], 318 p. front., plates. 24 cm.

Date: 1928.

Creators: Eberlein, Harold Donaldson.

GUSN: 146972

Call Number: Stacks F127.L8 E2

The principles of harmony and contrast of colours, and their applications to the arts, by M. E. Chevreul. Translated by Charles Martel [pseud.]

465 p. illus. (part fold.) 19 cm.

Date: 1910.

Creators: Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugáene), 1786-1889.

GUSN: 146973

Call Number: Stacks ND1488.C513 1910

The American architecture of to-day, by G.H. Edgell.

xxxi, 401 p. illus., plans. 24 cm.

Date: 1928.

Creators: Edgell, George Harold, 1887-1954.

GUSN: 146974

Call Number: Stacks NA705.E4

How shall we paint our houses? A popular treatise on the art of house-painting: plain and decorative. Showing the nature, composition and mode of production of paints and painters' colors, and their proper and harmonious combination and arrangement. By John W. Masury.

216 p. 18 cm.

Date: 1868.

Creators: Masury, John W.

GUSN: 146975

Call Number: 85M Stacks TT320.M43 1868

Simplified architectural survey techniques / by Margaret Henderson Floyd.

iv, 44 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1966.

Creators: Floyd, Margaret Henderson.

GUSN: 146976

Call Number: Ref. NA705.F62

Early American decorative patterns and how to paint them. Drawings by the author. Color photos. by Hilda Borcherding.

199 p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: [1962]

Creators: Sabine, Ellen S.

GUSN: 146977

Call Number: Stacks NK1403.S3

Some historic houses, their builders and their places in history, edited by Dr. John C. Fitzpatrick. Published under the auspices of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America.

x p. 1 l. 160 p. plates. 25 cm.

Date: 1939.

Creators: Fitzpatrick, John Clement, 1876-1940.

GUSN: 146978

Call Number: Stacks E159.F57

The architecture of the Old South: the medieval style, 1585-1850.

203 p. illus., plates. 26 cm.

Date: 1948.

Creators: Forman, Henry Chandlee, 1904-

GUSN: 146979

Call Number: Stacks NA720.F6

Old buildings, gardens, and furniture in Tidewater Maryland, by H. Chandlee Forman. Drawings and photos. by author except where noted.

xi, 326 p. illus., plans. 26 cm.

Date: 1967.

Creators: Forman, Henry Chandlee, 1904-

GUSN: 146980

Call Number: Stacks NA730.M3 F58

Architects' and stairbuilders' tables of treads and risers. By John A. Hamilton, architect.

[21] p. 11 x 17 cm.

Date: 1885.

Creators: Hamilton, John A., architect.

GUSN: 146981

Call Number: Stacks TH5673.H2

Porches and portals of old Fredericksburg, Virginia [by] Virginia Carmichael.

46 p., 1 ¾. illus. 24 cm.

Date: 1928.

Creators: Carmichael, Virginia.

GUSN: 146982

Call Number: Stacks NA735.F84 C3

Artistic homes in city and country; a selection of sketches prepared in the routine of office-work and now amplified and enlarged, by Albert W. Fuller ... With forty-four full-page illustrations and explanations.

4 p. ¾., 1 ¾., 44 (i.e. 43) pl. 22 x 34 cm.

Date: 1882.

Creators: Fuller, Albert W.

GUSN: 146983

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7201.F88 1882

Convenient houses, with fifty plans for the housekeeper. Architect and housewife; a journey through the house; fifty convenient house plans; practical house building for the owner; business points in building; how to pay for a home. By Louis H. Gibson ...

4, 321 p. front., illus. (incl. plans) plates. 24 cm.

Date: [1889]

Creators: "Cereal," 1854-

GUSN: 146984

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7120.G38 1889

Images of American living; four centuries of architecture and furniture as cultural expression.

xv, 498 p. illus., plans. 26 cm.

Date: [1964]

Creators: Gowans, Alan.

GUSN: 146985

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA705.G6 (and 1 more)

New England doorways; photographs and comment by Samuel Chamberlain.

101 p. front., illus. 21 cm.

Date: [c1939]

Creators: Chamberlain, Samuel, 1895-

GUSN: 146986

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA3010.C5 1939

Gateways and doorways of Charleston, South Carolina, in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, by Elizabeth Gibbon Curtis; edited with introduction and notes by Maxwell Kimball, and Arthur C. Holden.

xiii p., 68 numb. l. incl. front., plates. 29 cm.

Date: [c1926]

Creators: Curtis, Elizabeth Gibbon. Kimball, Maxwell, ed. Holden, Arthur Cort, 1890- , joint ed.

GUSN: 146987

Call Number: Stacks NA735.C35 C8

The honest house, presenting examples of the usual problems which face the home-builder, together with an exposition of the simple architectural principles which underlie them: arranged especially in reference to small house design, by Ruby Ross Goodnow in collaboration with Rayne Adams; introd. by Frederick L. Ackerman.

8p.¾.,3-206 p. front.,illus.(incl. plans) 28 cm.

Date: 1914.

Creators: Goodnow, Ruby Ross. Adams, Rayne, d. 1931, joint author.

GUSN: 146988

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7120.G6 1914

Dutchess county doorways, and other examples of period-work in wood, 1730-1830, with accounts of houses, places and people, by Helen Wilkinson Reynolds; photography by Margaret DeM. Brown.

xviii, 280, [22] p. front., 204 pl. on 102 ¾. 29 cm.

Date: 1931.

Creators: Reynolds, Helen Wilkinson.

GUSN: 146989

Call Number: Stacks NA7235.N7 R43 c.1 (and 1 more)

Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware.

304 p.

Date: 1914.

Creators: Hammond, John Martin, 1886-1939.

GUSN: 146990

Call Number: Stacks F182.H22

Old New England doorways / by Albert G. Robinson ; with many illustrations from the author's unique collection of photographs of old-time New England houses and doorways.

21 p., [66] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1919.

Creators: Robinson, Albert G. (Albert Gardner), 1855-1932.

GUSN: 146991

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA3010.R6

The American spirit in architecture, by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin.

353 p. illus. 26 cm.

Date: 1926.

Creators: Hamlin, Talbot, 1889-1956.

GUSN: 146992

Call Number: Stacks E178.5.P3 vol.13

Staircases and garden steps, by Guy Cadogan Rothery.

xii, 250 p. front., illus., plates, plans. 19 cm.

Date: [1912?].

Creators: Rothery, Guy Cadogan, 1863-

GUSN: 146993

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA3060.R6 1912a

The American fireplace: chimneys, mantelpieces, fireplaces & accessories [by] Henry J. Kauffman. Introd. by Joe Kindig III.

352 p. illus. 28 cm.

Date: [1972]

Creators: Kauffman, Henry J., 1908-

GUSN: 146994

Call Number: Coll. NA3050.K34 c.1 (and 1 more)

America's country schools / Andrew Gulliford.

291 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: c1984.

Creators: Gulliford, Andrew.

GUSN: 146995

Call Number: Stacks LB1567.G88 1984

Court house, a photographic document / edited by Richard Pare ; conceived and directed by Phyllis Lambert ; the writers of Court house, Phyllis Lambert ... [et al.] ; the photographers of Court house, Harold Allen ... [et al.].

255 p. : ill. ; 34 cm.

Date: c1978.

Creators: Pare, Richard. Lambert, Phyllis. Allen, Harold, 1912-

GUSN: 146996

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA4475.U6 C68

The unflushables : outhouses, history and humor : featuring two-,three-, and five-story outhouses / Walter J. Weber.

141 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1989.

Creators: Weber, Walter J. (Walter John), 1911-

GUSN: 146997

Call Number: Stacks TH4975.W43 1989

Quaint and historic forts of North America, by John Martin Hammond ... with seventy-one illustrations.

xiii, [1] p., 1 l., 308, [1] p. front., plates, port, 25 cm.

Date: 1915.

Creators: Hammond, John Martin, 1886-1939

GUSN: 146998

Call Number: Stacks E159.H22

The architect & the American country house, 1890-1940 / Mark Alan Hewitt ; architectural photographs by Richard Cheek.

xiii, 312 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Date: c1990.

Creators: Hewitt, Mark A. Cheek, Richard.

GUSN: 147000

Call Number: Stacks NA7561.H4 1990

The American home : architecture and society, 1815-1915 / David P. Handlin.

xii, 545 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1979.

Creators: Handlin, David P.

GUSN: 147001

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7207.H32 1979 (and 1 more)

From tepees to towers; a photographic history of American architecture, by Carl E. Hiller.

106 p. illus. 26 cm., Photographs of selected American buildings reflect the growth of our civilization and the primary factors governing our architecture: purpose, climate, materials, and the urge to adorn.

Date: [1967]

Creators: Hiller, Carl E.

GUSN: 147002

Call Number: Stacks NA705.H5

American architecture / David P. Handlin.

288 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: c1985.

Creators: Handlin, David P.

GUSN: 147003

Call Number: Ref. NA705.H35 1985

Modern dwellings in town and country adapted to American wants and climate with a treatise on furniture and decoration by H. Hudson Holly. With one hundred original designs comprising cottages, villas and mansions.

219 p. incl. front., illus. (incl. plans) 23 cm.

Date: 1878.

Creators: Holly, H. Hudson (Henry Hudson), 1834-1892.

GUSN: 147004

Call Number: Stacks NA7610.H65

Peninsula pilgrimage, by Elizabeth Valentine Huntley.

398 p. incl. illus, plates. 26 cm.

Date: 1941.

Creators: Huntley, Elizabeth Valentine.

GUSN: 147005

Call Number: Stacks F227.H93 1941

American buildings and their architects; v. 3, Progressive and academic ideals at the turn of the twentieth century / William H. Jordy.

420 p. : ill.

Date: 1976, c1972.

Creators: Jordy, William H.

GUSN: 147006

Call Number: Ref. NA705.P5 1976

The American heritage book of great historic places, by the editors of American heritage. Narrative by Richard M. Ketchum. Introd. by Bruce Catton.

376 p. illus. (part col.) ports. (part col.) col. maps. 29 cm.

Date: [1957]

Creators: Ketchum, Richard M., 1922-

GUSN: 147007

Call Number: Stacks E169.1.K418

Summer homes and camps; containing suggestions, hints, and practical ideas, sketches, plans, etc., for the building of summer houses, by Frank T. Lent ... with illus. by the author.

97 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: 1899.

Creators: Lent, Frank T. (Frank Townsend), b. 1855.

GUSN: 147409

Call Number: Stacks NA7561.L6

Wood structural design data.

v. illus. 28 cm.

Date: 1941-

Creators: National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

GUSN: 147410

Call Number: Stacks TA666.N31 v.1

What makes the house beautiful; a collection of building details with measured drawings. Edited by Henrietta C. Peabody.

69, [1] p. illus. (incl. plans) 32 cm.

Date: [c1920]

Creators: Peabody, Henrietta C., comp.

GUSN: 147411

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7125.P4 1920

Villas & palaces of Andrea Palladio, 1508-1580. English translations from Palladio's "I quattro libri dell'architettura" by la contessa Maria Teresa Ceschi a Santa Croce. Color photographs by Franca Parisi Baslini and Anna Pressi.

lxxxi, 373 p. illus. 31 cm.

Date: 1968.

Creators: Roop, Guy.

GUSN: 147412

Call Number: Stacks NA1123.P2 R63

The rules of work of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, 1786, with the original copper plate illustrations. Annotated, with an introd., by Charles E. Peterson.

xxiii, xv, 47 p. 35 plates. 23 cm.

Date: 1971.

Creators: Peterson, Charles E. (Charles Emil), 1906- Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia.

GUSN: 147413

Call Number: Stacks TH5608.C25 1971 (and 1 more)

Without benefit of architect, by Frazier Forman Peters.

xv p., l¾., 211 p. incl. front., diagr. 20 cm.

Date: [c1937]

Creators: Peters, Frazier Forman.

GUSN: 147414

Call Number: Stacks TH148.P4

Radford's artistic homes, 250 designs.

261 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1908.

Creators: Radford Architectural Co.

GUSN: 147415

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7201.R252 1908

Problems in carpentry, a course in practical carpentry for manual training classes, by Louis M. Roehl.

111 p. incl. front. illus., plates. 19 x 22 cm.

Date: 1913.

Creators: Roehl, Louis Michael, 1881-

GUSN: 147416

Call Number: Stacks TH5606.R7

Shaker furniture; the craftsmanship of an American communal sect, by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews. Photos. by William F. Winter.

xi, 133 p. 48 plates. 28 cm.

Date: 1950 [c1937]

Creators: Andrews, Edward Deming, 1894-1964. Andrews, Faith. joint author.

GUSN: 147417

Call Number: Coll. NK2405.A7 1950

Antique furniture in Suffield, Connecticut, 1670-1835.

ix, 128 p. 61 plates (incl. facsims.) 28 cm.

Date: 1956.

Creators: Bissell, Charles S.

GUSN: 147418

Call Number: Coll. NK2438.S8 B5

Centuries and styles of the American chair, 1640-1970, by Robert Bishop. Foreword by Charles F. Hummel.

516 p. illus. 29 cm.

Date: 1972.

Creators: Bishop, Robert Charles.

GUSN: 147419

Call Number: Coll. NK2715.B55 (and 2 more)

Boston furniture of the eighteenth century : a conference held by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 11 and 12 May 1972.

xvi, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: c1974.

Creators: Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

GUSN: 147420

Call Number: Stacks F61.C71 v.48 c.1 (and 4 more)

The house beautiful : essays on beds and tables, stools and candlesticks / by Clarence Cook.

336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1881, c1877.

Creators: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900.

GUSN: 147421

Call Number: 85M Stacks NK2115.C8 1881

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