A Book Of Cape Cod Houses

Author : Doris Doane
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1567921132

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A Book of Cape Cod Houses by Doris Doane Pdf

Ask any child to draw a house, and what you will probably get is a symmetrical structure of one and a half stories with a door in the middle and a window on either side - in other words, a "Cape." From the mid-1600s to the 1850s, capes were the standard New England home, providing farmers and fishermen, city dwellers and country folk with houses that were easy to build, economical, and whose low-slung design stood up to the bracing winds that swept in from the ocean. After World War II, these straightforward practical designs were adapted to twentieth-century living. Here is the history of these charming homes, accompanied by detailed and elegant pencil drawings illuminating everything from the wallpapers to the floor plans.

Author : Arthur P. Richmond
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 076433848X

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The Evolution of the Cape Cod House by Arthur P. Richmond Pdf

Introduction -- Sixteenth-century England -- Early seventeenth century -- Late seventeenth century -- Characteristics of the Cape Cod house -- Historic homes -- Other Cape Cod towns with historic Cape Cod homes -- Conclusion

Author : Peter McMahon,Christine Cipriani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architect-designed houses
ISBN : 1935202162

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Cape Cod Modern by Peter McMahon,Christine Cipriani Pdf

In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, rented a house on Planting Island, near the base of Cape Cod. Thus began a chapter in the history of modern architecture that has never been told _until now. The area was a hotbed of intellectual currents from New York, Boston, Cambridge and the country's top schools of architecture and design. Avant-garde homes began to appear in the woods and on the dunes; by the 1970s, there were about 100 modern houses of interest here.

Author : Michael J. Crosbie,John R. DaSilva
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 186470280X

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Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer by Michael J. Crosbie,John R. DaSilva Pdf

A monograph on the work on an American architecture firm, famous for capturing the essence of 'The American Summer'.

Author : Jaci Conry
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614232063

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A History Through Houses by Jaci Conry Pdf

The rugged beauty of the Cape's landscape has been captured in writing since the days of Henry David Thoreau. Yet few mention the area's architecture, aside from references to the "Cape Cod houses," the basic cottages that the earliest settlers built. From Provincetown at the northern tip to the village of Woods Hole at the opposite end, the residential architecture of Cape Cod encompasses an extensive range of styles. Scattered among the charming Capes are stately Federals and Greek Revivals built for sea captains, detailed Carpenter Gothic cottages constructed by Methodist camp-goers and sprawling Victorian and Shingle-style summer mansions built during the Gilded Age. Journey with Cape Cod native Jaci Conry as she reveals the architectural influences of different eras on this timeless peninsula.

Author : Stanley Schuler
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0916838633

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The Cape Cod House by Stanley Schuler Pdf

Designed for those who may wish to build their own Cape Cod home, here are many variations of the basic floor plan, plus 174 photos to show the nearly limitless possibilities this traditional style home offers. Examples range from tiny single style to double, triple, modified, and "modern" interpretations. The Cape Cod house is clearly adaptable to every taste and every budget.

Author : Stanley Schuler
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UVA:X001730997

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Saltbox and Cape Cod Houses by Stanley Schuler Pdf

Author : Cynthia Huntington
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611683172

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The Salt House by Cynthia Huntington Pdf

A woman writer's lyrical memoir of a summer with her artist husband in a remote Cape Cod dune shack

Author : George Howe Colt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439124918

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The Big House by George Howe Colt Pdf

Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations interweaves Colt’s final visit with memories of a lifetime of summers. Run-down yet romantic, The Big House stands not only as a cherished reminder of summer’s ephemeral pleasures but also as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life.

Author : Mark A. Hutker
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781580934275

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A Sense of Place by Mark A. Hutker Pdf

Thirteen exquisite houses create a portrait of life in one of America’s most exclusive coastal destinations, along the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Cod. Hutker Architects, led by founding principal Mark A. Hutker, has designed more than three hundred houses along the New England shore. A member of the close community on Martha’s Vineyard since his arrival in 1985, Hutker has become an expert at interpreting the ideal lifestyles of his clients within the respected traditions and restrictive codes of the beautiful but fragile environment. In their design and construction, these houses honor the vernacular traditions of craft and indigenous materials, are deeply respectful of the cherished landscape, and demonstrate a lively range of solutions to building on the bluffs and dunes that line the shores of the Vineyard and Cape Cod. A working organic farm fulfills a family’s dream of simpler values; a luxurious renovation saves the best of an antique shingle cottage while transforming it for contemporary family life and a raised structure clad in naturally weathered boards combines the legacy of midcentury regional modern architecture with Cape Cod’s maritime tradition. The firm is committed to the principle “Build once, well,” looking to the historic architecture of the region and the inherited experience of its carpenters and craftspeople as inspiration for contemporary design. The result is an architecture that is at once adaptable and livable, yet enduring, efficient, inevitable, and appropriate. The houses sit lightly on the land, deferring to their surroundings, often built as a series of modest pavilions linked by passages or grouped to enclose an outdoor space. Creative design solutions—a light-filled gallery running the full length of a house, a continuous wall of sliding glass doors—make houses both open to views, but protective in a storm. Specially commissioned photography captures the craftsmanship and the settings of the houses, from dramatic bluffs overlooking the sea to secluded coves and rolling meadows filled with wildflowers, creating a unique portrait of Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard.

Author : Jane Gitlin
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1561584363

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Capes by Jane Gitlin Pdf

Re-introduces readers to the classic Cape Cod home, featuring more than twenty case studies of updated houses.

Author : William Morgan
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568985754

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The Cape Cod Cottage by William Morgan Pdf

The Cape Cod cottage has been one of America's most popular home styles for almost four hundred years. While a perennial domestic favorite, historians have long ignored the modest Cape Cod, relegating it to a vernacular footnote along with barns and mills. In The Cape Cod Cottage architectural historian and photographer William Morgan places this uniquely American housea remarkable combination of necessity and traditionin its historical context and makes a compellingargument for the reassessment of its place in the history of American architecture. The Cape Cod Cottage follows the uniquely American house type from its earliest beginnings in the colonial period, through its spread across New England, to its embrace as a suburban ideal in the twentieth century, and its reinterpretation by contemporary architects. Historical images oflost Capes augment beautiful new photographs taken specifically for the book. As a tribute to a special house, The Cape Cod Cottage is an appeal to preserve the Cape's legacy and an essential document of this unique architectural icon.

Author : Barbara Eppich Struna
Publisher : Booktrope Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cape Cod (Mass.)
ISBN : 1620151677

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The Old Cape House by Barbara Eppich Struna Pdf

Nancy Caldwell relocates to an old sea captain's house on Cape Cod with her husband and four children. When she discovers an abandoned root cellar in her backyard containing a baby's skull and gold coins, she digs up evidence that links her land to the legendary tale of Maria Hallett and her pirate lover, Sam Bellamy. Using alternating chapters between the 18th and 21st centuries, The Old Cape House, a historical fiction, follows two women that are lifetimes apart, to uncover a mystery that has had the old salts of Cape Cod guessing for 300 years.

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781504081719

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The Outermost House by Henry Beston Pdf

The classic nature memoir of Cape Cod in the early twentieth century, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald Tribune). When Henry Beston returned home from World War I, he sought refuge and healing at a house on the outer beach of Cape Cod. He was so taken by the natural beauty of his surroundings that his two-week stay extended into a yearlong solitary adventure. He spent his time trying to capture in words the wonders of the magical landscape he found himself in thrall to. In The Outermost House, Beston chronicles his experiences observing the migrations of seabirds, the rhythms of the tide, the windblown dunes, and the scatter of stars in the changing summer sky. Beston argued: “The world today is sick to its thin blood for the lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.” Nearly a century after publication, Beston’s words are more true than ever.

Author : Kate Whouley
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807095409

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Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved by Kate Whouley Pdf

A true account of one woman's quest to move a vacation cottage across Cape Cod to create a home, and the people, complications, and self-discoveries she encountered along the way. When Kate Whouley saw the classified ad for an abandoned vacation cottage, she began to dream: Transport the cottage through four Cape Cod towns. Attach it to my three-room house. Create more space for my work and life. Smart, single, and self-employed, Kate was used to fending for herself. But she wasn't prepared for half the surprises, complications, and self-discoveries of her house-moving adventure. Supported by friends and family, and egged on by Egypt, her bossy gray cat, Kate encountered a parade of town officials, a small convoy of State Police, and an eccentric band of house-movers, carpenters, and tradesmen. She found herself dancing on the edge of the gender divide-infatuated with trucks, cranes, tools, construction terms, and a dreamy mason who taught her the history of concrete. In one remarkable year, Whouley moved a cottage and created a home.