At Home In New England

Author : Richard Wills
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781442224261

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At Home in New England by Richard Wills Pdf

The now venerable firm of Royal Barry Wills was founded in a one-room office on Boston's Beacon Street in 1925. Initially fueled by word of mouth and occasional newspaper exposure, the firm gained admiration for Wills’s fresh take on various New England styles, including Georgian, Tudor, French Provincial, and Colonial American. Driven by the country's desire for both aesthetic appeal and practicality, the firm's popularity increased dramatically with its focus on the creation of modern homes inspired by the one-and-a-half-story Cape Cod houses, which perfectly balanced the classic and the new. Now run by his son, Richard Wills, the firm has been designing elegant private homes in the classically inspired Colonial New England tradition for more than eighty-five years. As time has passed, their Cape Cod-style homes have proven remarkably adaptable to the demands of contemporary life, while staying true to Wills's original flair for intermingling past and present. This book features examples of the firm's work from its founding to the present, with an emphasis on more recent houses that have been built throughout New England.

Author : Stanley Schuler
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0764309951

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Old New England Homes by Stanley Schuler Pdf

Colonial, Georgian, Federal, and Victorian homes presented with an informative and readable text and 245 color photos. Various aspects and angles of the buildings are shown, in addition to the beautiful frontal views. Floor plans are given for many of the homes, making this new edition an important book for architects and potential home owners alike.

Author : Elaine Louie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : 9780743203753

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Living in New England by Elaine Louie Pdf

From colonial farmhouses in the Rhode Island countryside to shingled beach cottages on Martha's Vineyard, this lush tour of some of New England's most inventive and quintessentially American interiors reveals the unique regional style that has come to define our country's idea of home. Color photos.

Author : Stanley Schuler
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0764309811

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Architectural Details from Old New England Homes by Stanley Schuler Pdf

Over 350 color and black-and-white photographs show the various architectural styles of old New England homes with special attention to the details. A supporting text explains the history and significance of the style. Architectural drawings provide close-up views of fireplaces, doorways, windows, stairs, and cupboards built in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

Author : Duo Dickinson,Steve Culpepper
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493019168

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A Home Called New England by Duo Dickinson,Steve Culpepper Pdf

New England is the oldest and most influential region of America. Although it has changed much through the centuries, it remains a place that even the Colonials may still recognize. Through a collection of photos, illustrations, history, and stories, this book explores the architectural history of New England and how, although it has changed much through the centuries, it remains a place that even the Colonials might still recognize. The book begins with the influence of climate and geography on the architectural choices and follows with the basics of the well-known New England homes––the cape, the saltbox, the colonial––all of which were created to serve the very specific needs of this corner of America, the people, the land and the climate. We look at the earliest settlers, understanding the challenges they faced, and follow their descendants as they convert and adapt the traditional New England home into something still clearly New England but different, newer and, ultimately, even modern. We watch how the people and houses evolve and how they become what are still clearly identifiable as New England––and all over New England, from Connecticut’s Gold Coast to the rocky shores of Maine. Sprinkled throughout the story of this evolution are sidebars such as A New England State of Mind and I Live Here, etc… where we meet the quintessential New England personalities and characters, who speak through letters, epitaphs, remembrances, books, newspapers, and others, and hear and see in their own words and images what they make or made of this place and life in it. People who buy this book will enjoy a very visual sense of what it’s like to be a New Englander and what it’s like to live in New England––whose houses have been copied and adapted in every state, city and neighborhood of America.

Author : Anne Cooper-Chen
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Game shows
ISBN : 0879725990

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Games in the Global Village by Anne Cooper-Chen Pdf

Q. What is the most-watched TV format in history, seen by about 100 million people weekly around the world? A. Wheel of Fortune, a game show. Without putdowns or pandering, the author looks at 260 such shows, concluding that culture has triumphed over technology. For despite our capacity to transmit the same content world-wide, McLuhan's global village has not come to pass. Technology has, however, encouraged already-existing "cultural continents" to coalesce. About one-third of the world's game shows have been licensed or adapted from another country, especially from the United States. Conversely, a single program can cross borders unchanged, such as Sabado Gigante, which appeals to Spanish speakers in 18 countries. The first truly global study of TV entertainment, this book includes interviews with producers, contestants, and licensers. With its tables, illustrations and appendices, the text provides details on content and audiences, as well as explanatory overviews.

Author : Brock Clarke
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1565126149

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An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke Pdf

A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's house and unwittingly killing two people. emerging at age twenty-eight, he creates a new life and identity as a husband and father. But when the homes of other famous New England writers suddenly go up in smoke, he must prove his innocence by uncovering the identity of this literary-minded arsonist. In the league of such contemporary classics as A Confederacy of Dunces and The World According to Garp, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England is an utterly original story about truth and honesty, life and the imagination.

Author : Alexander Gorlin
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0847833992

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Tomorrow's Houses by Alexander Gorlin Pdf

A dazzling showcase of hidden jewels by the masters of twentieth-century modernist architecture in New England. Tomorrow's Houses is a richly photographed presentation of the best modernist houses in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, built during the early twentieth century through the 1960s. From the suburbs of Connecticut to the mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont, modernism in America found some of its earliest, most idealistic, and, later, most refined realizations in houses designed by such masters as Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, Mies van der Rohe, Richard Meier, Paul Rudolph, Marcel Breuer, and Walter Gropius, all of whose work is featured in these pages. Photographer Geoffrey Gross has captured in stunning full-color images these precisely composed structures and their exquisitely appointed interiors, all against the breathtaking variety of the landscapes of New England. Lauded architect and critic Alexander Gorlin places these beautiful houses in their proper historical context as examples of the best of early- and mid-twentieth-century American modernist architecture.

Author : Brooke Dojny
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781558327573

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New England Home Cooking by Brooke Dojny Pdf

350 Recipes from Town and Country, Land and Sea, Hearth and Home of New England.

Author : Irving Whitall Lyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002008562F

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The Colonial Furniture of New England [microform] by Irving Whitall Lyon Pdf

Author : Thomas C. Hubka
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Barns
ISBN : 1584653728

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Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn by Thomas C. Hubka Pdf

The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.

Author : James F. O'Gorman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215500567

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Drawing Toward Home by James F. O'Gorman Pdf

DRAWING TOWARD HOME: Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England, edited by James F. O'Gorman, showcases a variety of drawings of domestic buildings that range in date from the late eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, and depict an array of building types estates, modest single--family houses, summer cottages and even a typical Boston multi--family dwelling known as a three--decker.

Author : Bruce Irving
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781581578485

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New England Icons: Shaker Villages, Saltboxes, Stone Walls and Steeples by Bruce Irving Pdf

Connect with the original New England. We tend to think of icons as simple, graphic, stone or wooden objects without much depth or life, left overs from bygone eras. But Bruce Irving, former producer of the popular PBS show This Old House, will have none of that. In a collection of short essays, Irving taps into our collective consciousness by extolling the comforting sense of place we associate with such common and not-so-common New England sights as stone walls, village greens, lobster boats, classic ski runs, and garden cemeteries, to name but a few—symbols of enduring importance that are also still full of life and character. Curl up in your favorite chair, relax, and take a tour of our common heritage—or take this insightful cultural guide with you as you travel New England’s highways and byways. It’s sure to shed new light on the old stalwart landscape features you see every day.

Author : Jane C. Nylander
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780307828163

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Our Own Snug Fireside by Jane C. Nylander Pdf

This charming book portrays domestic life in New England during the century between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Drawing on diaries, letters, wills, newspapers, and other sources, Jane C. Nylander provides intimate details about preparing dinner, spinning and weaving textiles, washing and ironing laundry, planning a social outing, and exchanging food and services. Probing behind the many myths that have grown up about this era, Nylander reveals the complex reality of everyday life in old New England.

Author : Gloria M. Chartier
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781467036320

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New England Home by Gloria M. Chartier Pdf

Home is the place where the people you love and have loved you are still there. They might not be still around to be told how much you care but the recesses of the mind hold all things in life so dear and we all have the memories of when we were young and how we lived not only then but throught out all of our lives. This book is about my family but it could be yours. It is so interesting how our lives intersect.