Historic New England

A dictionary of architecture and building :biographical, historical, and descriptive /by Russell Sturgis ... and many architects, painters, engineers, and other expert writers, American and foreign ...

3 v. : ill., plates ; 27 cm.

Date: 1905 [c1901]

Creators: Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909.

GUSN: 225755

Call Number: Stacks NA31.S84 1905 Vol. 1 (and 2 more)

The nature of ornament :rhythm and metamorphosis in architecture /Kent Bloomer.

240 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Bloomer, Kent C., 1935-

GUSN: 225757

Call Number: Stacks NK1530.B58 2000

Houses and gardens by E.L. Lutyens /described and criticised by Lawrence Weaver.

xl, 344 p. : ill., plans ; 31 cm.

Date: 1981.

Creators: Weaver, Lawrence, Sir, 1876-

GUSN: 225759

Call Number: Stacks NA997.L8 W4 1981

The heart of our cities;the urban crisis: diagnosis and cure.

368 p. illus. (part col.) maps. 24 cm.

Date: 1967, c. 1964.

Creators: Gruen, Victor, 1903-

GUSN: 225761

Call Number: Stacks NA9108.G76 1967

Urban design :the architecture of towns and cities /written and illustrated by Paul D. Spreiregen for the American Institute of Architects.

xi, 243 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1965.

Creators: Spreiregen, Paul D. American Institute of Architects

GUSN: 225763

Call Number: Stacks NA9031.S65 1965

A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture.

2 v. in 3, 264 p. of plates (some col.) : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1850.

Creators: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884.

GUSN: 225765

Call Number: Rare NA31.P31 1850 Part 1 (and 2 more)

New England lighthouses :Bay of Fundy to Long Island Sound /photographs by Bruce Roberts ; text by Ray Jones.

101 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 28 cm.

Date: c1996.

Creators: Roberts, Bruce, 1930- Jones, Ray, 1948-

GUSN: 225784

Call Number: Stacks VK1024.N38 R625 1996

Lighthouses of New England :your guide to the lighthouses of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut /text by Jon Marcus ; photography by Susan Cole Kelly.

160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Marcus, Jon, 1960-

GUSN: 225786

Call Number: Stacks VK1024.N38 M37 2001

Maine lighthouses :a pictorial guide /photography and text Courtney Thompson ; maps and line graphics Wesley A. Shaw.

128 p. : col. ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Date: c1996.

Creators: Thompson, Courtney. Shaw, Wesley A.

GUSN: 225788

Call Number: Stacks VK1024.M2 T49 1996

Lighthouses /Norton/library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design & Engineering / Sara E. Wermiel.

358 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).

Date: c2006.

Creators: Wermiel, Sara E.

GUSN: 225790

Call Number: 85M Stacks TC375.W525 2006

Jacobsen's biographical index of American artists :artists native to the United States or working in the United States from 1606 to 2002 /compiled and edited by Anita Jacobsen.

v. (xiii, 3640 p.) ; 30 cm.

Date: c2002-

Creators: Jacobsen, Anita.

GUSN: 225792

Call Number: Ref. N6536.J33 2002

Fables. By the late Mr. Gay.

[1 v.] ill. 20 cm.

Date: 1755.

Creators: Gay, John, 1685-1732.

GUSN: 225794

Call Number: Rare PR3473.F3 1755

Brick and marble in the middle ages :notes of a tour in the north of Italy /by George Edmund Street.

xx, 287, 32 p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. (6 col.) ; 23 cm.

Date: 1855.

Creators: Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881.

GUSN: 225818

Call Number: Rare NA1113.S8 1855

Contrasts:or, A parallel between the noble edifices of the middle ages, and corresponding buildings of the present day, shewing the present decay of taste.Accompanied by appropriate text. By A. Welby Pugin.

v, 104 p. front., illus., plates. 30 cm.

Date: 1841.

Creators: Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852.

GUSN: 225820

Call Number: Rare NA440.P85 1841

Cottage residences;or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds.Adapted to North America. By A.J. Downing.

xvi, 261 p. front., illus., plates (1 col.) plans. 26 cm.

Date: 1873.

Creators: Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852. Sargent, Henry Winthrop, 1810-1882. Downing, Charles. Harney, George E., ed.

GUSN: 225822

Call Number: Rare NA7561.D8 1873

A treatise on building in water :in two parts. Part I. Particularly relative to the repair and re-building of Essex-Bridge, Dublin, ... Part II. Concerning an attempt to contrive and introduce quick and cheap methods, ... : principally addressed and peculiarly adapted to young and unexperienced readers : illustrated with sixty-three copper-plates /by George Semple.

157 p., 63 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 27 cm.

Date: M.DCC.LXXVI [1776]

Creators: Semple, George, 1700?-1782?

GUSN: 225824

Call Number: Rare TG320.S4 1776

A schedule of the buildings and their occupancy, on the principal streets and wharves in the city of Boston.Surveyed and published expressly for the use of insurance companies by John E. Whiting ...

211 p. 22 x 28 cm.

Date: [c1877]

Creators: Whiting, John Eaton.

GUSN: 225827

Call Number: Rare F73.7.W58 1877

The House of the Seven Gables :historic structure report /prepared by Finch & Rose and Anne Andrus Grady

3 v. (loose leaf) : ill. (some col.), plans ; 30 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Grady, Anne Andrus Finch, William B. House of the Seven Gables Settlement Association

GUSN: 225829

Call Number: Stacks F74.S1 F56 2008 vol. I (and 2 more)

Louis Sullivan, prophet of modern architecture /by Hugh Morrison.

xxi, 317 p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Creators: Morrison, Hugh, 1905-1978.

GUSN: 225831

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.S9 M6 1962

Boston: portrait of a city.Photographs by Katherine Knowles.

112 p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: 1964.

Creators: Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905-1978. Knowles, Katharine, ill.

GUSN: 225833

Call Number: Stacks F73.37.W63 1964

Classical architecture :the poetics of order /Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre.

x, 306 p. : ill., plans ; 24 cm.

Date: c1986.

Creators: Tzonis, Alexander. Lefaivre, Liane. Tzonis, Alexander. Taal van de klassicistiese architektuur.

GUSN: 225835

Call Number: Stacks NA260.T96 1986

Crossroads :stories of Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1912-2000 /[compiled by] Sarah Boyer ; with an historic overview by Charles M. Sullivan.

264 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Boyer, Sarah, 1947- Cambridge Historical Commission.

GUSN: 225837

Call Number: Stacks F74.C1 C76 2001

The architecture book /by Norval White.

343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: White, Norval, 1926-2009.

GUSN: 225839

Call Number: Stacks NA31.W45 1976

The architecture of the city /Aldo Rossi ; introduction by Peter Eisenman ; translation by Diane Ghirardo and Joan Ockman ; revised for the American edition by Aldo Rossi and Peter Eisenman.

201 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1984, c1982.

Creators: Rossi, Aldo, 1931-1997. Eisenman, Peter, 1932- Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.

GUSN: 225841

Call Number: Stacks NA9031.R3713 1984

Studies in art, architecture and design :Victorian and after /Nikolaus Pevsner.

288 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1982, c1968.

Creators: Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902-

GUSN: 225843

Call Number: Stacks N6350.P464 1981

The crowning of the American landscape :eight great spaces and their buildings /Walter L. Creese.

xi, 289 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm., "From areas as large as the Hudson Valley and Yosemite National Park to those as small as the Fens in Boston and Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Valley, Walter Creese analyzes the historical essence of eight distinguished American sites and their architecture."-...

Date: c1985.

Creators: Creese, Walter L.

GUSN: 225845

Call Number: Stacks SB470.53.C74 1985

Cambridge on the Charles /by Alan Seaburg, Thomas Dahill, Carol Rose.

xviii, 300 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: 2001.

Creators: Seaburg, Alan, 1932- Dahill, Thomas. Rose, Carol (Carol Hilma)

GUSN: 225847

Call Number: Stacks F74.C1 S43 2001

Borderland :origins of the American suburb, 1820-1939 /John R. Stilgoe.

xiv, 353 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1988.

Creators: Stilgoe, John R., 1949-

GUSN: 225849

Call Number: 85M Stacks HT352.U6 S75 1988

Historic wallpapers : from their inception to the introduction of machinery / Nancy McClelland.

xvi, 458 p. : ill., plates ; 25 cm.

Date: 1924.

Creators: McClelland, Nancy.

GUSN: 153941

Call Number: Coll. NK3400.M34 1924

New England : a bibliography of its history / prepared by the Committee for a New England Bibliography ; edited by Roger Parks ; with a historiographic essay by David D. Hall and Alan Taylor.

xlix, 259 p. : map ; 29 cm.

Date: c1989.

Creators: Parks, Roger N. Hall, David D. Taylor, Alan, 1955- Committee for a New England Bibliography.

GUSN: 153942

Call Number: Ref. Z1251.E1 N452 1989

Connecticut, a bibliography of its history / prepared by the Committee for a New England Bibliography ; edited by Roger Parks.

xlii, 591 p. : map ; 29 cm.

Date: 1986.

Creators: Parks, Roger N. Committee for a New England Bibliography.

GUSN: 153943

Call Number: Ref. Z1265.C66 1986

Bibliographies of New England history. Further additions, to 1994 / prepared by the Committee for a New England Bibliography ; edited by Roger Parks.

xviii, 299 p. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1995.

Creators: Parks, Roger N. Committee for a New England Bibliography.

GUSN: 153944

Call Number: Ref. Z1251.E1 N454 1995

The gilded edge : the art of the frame / edited by Eli Wilner.

203 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Wilner, Eli.

GUSN: 153945

Call Number: Coll. N8551.U6 G55 2000

New England : additions to the six state bibliographies / prepared by the Committee for a New England Bibliography ; edited by Roger Parks ; assisted by Joseph E. Coduri ... [et al.].

xxiv, 776 p. : map ; 29 cm.

Date: c1989.

Creators: Parks, Roger N. Coduri, Joseph E. Committee for a New England Bibliography.

GUSN: 153946

Call Number: Ref. Z1251.E1 N454 1989

Rhode Island, a bibliography of its history / prepared by the Committee for a New England Bibliography ; edited by Roger Parks.

xxxiv, 229 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1983.

Creators: Parks, Roger N. Committee for a New England Bibliography.

GUSN: 153947

Call Number: Ref. Z1331.R58 1983

1700-tals textil : Anders Berchs samling i Nordiska museet / redigerad av Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark = 18th century textiles : the Anders Berch collection at the Nordiska museet / edited by Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark.

280 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 34 cm.

Date: c1990.

Creators: Stavenow-Hidemark, Elisabet. Nordiska museet (Stockholm, Sweden)

GUSN: 153948

Call Number: Coll. NK8909.65.N67 1990

Inspiring reform : Boston's arts and crafts movement / Marilee Boyd Meyer, consulting curator ; essays by David Acton ... [et al.].

247 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 37 cm.

Date: c1997.

Creators: Meyer, Marilee Boyd. Acton, David, 1953- Davis Museum and Cultural Center. Renwick Gallery.

GUSN: 153949

Call Number: Coll. NK1141.I57 1997 c.1 (and 2 more)

The Great book of wildfowl decoys / general editor, Joe Engers ; photography by Bill Buckner.

320 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 37 cm.

Date: c1990.

Creators: Engers, Joe. Buckner, Bill.

GUSN: 153950

Call Number: Coll. NK9712.G74 1990

America's traditional crafts / Robert Shaw.

312 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 37 cm.

Date: c1993.

Creators: Shaw, Robert, 1951-

GUSN: 153951

Call Number: Coll. NK805.S5 1993

Useful beauty : early American decorative arts from St. Louis collections : the Saint Louis Art Museum, June 19-August 15, 1999 / David H. Conradsen ; with a foreword by Patricia E. Kane.

124 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Conradsen, David H. St. Louis Art Museum.

GUSN: 153952

Call Number: Coll. NK806.C625 1999

American modern, 1925-1940 : design for a new age / by J. Stewart Johnson.

192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Johnson, J. Stewart.

GUSN: 153953

Call Number: Coll. NK1404.J65 2000

Socks & stockings / Jeremy Farrell.

95 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1992.

Creators: Farrell, Jeremy.

GUSN: 153954

Call Number: Coll. GT2128.F37 1992

Women's shoes in America, 1795-1930 / written and illustrated by Nancy E. Rexford.

xvi, 393 p. : ill. (col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Rexford, Nancy E., 1947-

GUSN: 153955

Call Number: Coll. GT2130.R48 2000 (and 1 more)

Art and the empire city : New York, 1825-1861 / edited by Catherine Hoover Voorsanger and John K. Howat.

xvi, 636 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover. Howat, John K. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 153956

Call Number: Coll. N6535.N5 A28 2000

The gentleman & cabinet-maker's director.

1 v. (chiefly illus.) 31 cm.

Date: [1966]

Creators: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.

GUSN: 153957

Call Number: Coll. NK2542.C5 A3 1762a

American art at Harvard.

1 v. (unpaged) illus. 25 x 27 cm.

Date: [1972]

Creators: Fogg Art Museum.

GUSN: 153958

Call Number: Coll. N6505.H34

American art from American collections; decorative arts, paintings, and prints of the colonial and federal periods, from private collections, in an exhibition, March 6 to April 28, sponsored by the Friends of the American Wing. By James Biddle, associate curator in charge of the American Wing.

114 p. illus. 27 cm.

Date: 1963.

Creators: Biddle, James. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing.

GUSN: 153959

Call Number: Coll. N6507.N4

American furniture : understanding styles, construction, and quality / John T. Kirk.

234 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Kirk, John T.

GUSN: 153960

Call Number: Coll. NK2405.K57 2000

Furniture of classical Greece, by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings and Carlton W. Pullin.

122 p. illus. (part col.) 32 cm.

Date: [c1963]

Creators: Robsjohn-Gibbings, Terence Harold, b. 1905. Pullin, Carlton W., joint author.

GUSN: 153961

Call Number: Coll. NK2305.R6

English furniture from the Middle Ages to modern times [by] Margaret Macdonald-Taylor.

299 p. illus., plates (1 col.) 26 cm.

Date: [1966 c1965]

Creators: Macdonald-Taylor, Margaret.

GUSN: 153962

Call Number: Coll. NK2528.M17 1966

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