New England House Museums: A Guide to More than 100 Mansions, Cottages, and Historical Sites (eBook)

Robert J. Regalbuto (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
224 Seiten
Countryman Press (Verlag)
978-1-58157-498-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A photographic guide to historical homes and dwellings across New EnglandThe one hundred sites in this guide are in all six New England States, dating from the early 17th century to the threshold of our time and the architectural styles reflect those popular over a period of four centuries. The sites are varied and were the homes of leaders and literati, merchants and millionaires, poets and Pilgrims, philosophers and farmers, and seafarers and Shakers.Each chapter lists the museums location, web address, and telephone number and provide a description of the historical occupants as well as an in-depth look at the house's place in national and architectural history.Sites include:Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford CTSarah Orne Jewett House, Souther Berwick MEEmily Dickinson Museum, Amherst MARobert Frost Farm, Derry NHThe Breakers, Newport RI

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.3.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 50 color photographs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• ISBN-10: 1-58157-498-3 / 1581574983
• ISBN-13: 978-1-58157-498-2 / 9781581574982