Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (900 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1584653728 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Five Stars" according to Mary A Nadeau. Gave this as a gift for my son, he says he really likes it!Shipping was fast!. Interesting Book on Architecture in New England This book has some interesting stories about houses that are unique to this area of the country. I especially liked this book because it features a homestead that has been in my family since it was built. This is a good book to read about the development of the concept of the Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn where all the elements are . Five Stars Kevin Latady Great book - I get this book for many of my client's with historic homes!
Winner of the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award“Big house, little house, back house, barn”—this rhythmic cadence was sung by nineteenth-century children as they played. The stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders stand today as a living expression of a rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life. It also portrays the four essential components of the farms where many of them lived. A visual delight as well as an engaging tribute to our nineteenth-century forebears, this book has become one of the standard works on regional farmsteads in America.
“An unexpected small masterpiece…that has some of the suspense of a detective story and, at times, the poignance of deeply felt, sympathetic social history.”—Robert Campbell, Boston Globe