Stone Houses: Traditional Homes Of Pennsylvania's Bucks County And Brandywine Valley: Traditional Homes of Pennsylvania's Bucks County and Brandwyne Valley - Rilegato

Richie, Margaret Bye; Huber, Gregory D.; Milner, John D.

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ISBN 10: 0847826872 ISBN 13: 9780847826872

Casa editrice: Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 2005

Riassunto

Stone Houses is a unique presentation of a beloved building tradition in one of the most charming and historically significant regions in the nation. Part of the original Pennsylvania Colony, founded in 1682, Bucks County is important not only as an early English colony in America but also as a crucial site in the struggle for American independence. Architectural historians Margaret Bye Richie and Gregory D. Huber and photographer Geoffrey Gross survey twenty-four houses and barns dating from this early period, detailing their English Cotswold vernacular style and distinctive construction from local stone.
Among the fascinating and delightful buildings included in Stone Houses are McConkey's Ferry Inn (ca. 1750s), Washington's headquarters on the night of his historic crossing over the Delaware River, as well as the Thompson-Neely House (1766), which served as his officers' headquarters that famous night; Pennsbury Manor, the home of William Penn (begun in 1683 and restored in 1939); Summerseat (1725), the home at various times of three signers of the Declaration of Independence; and Buckingham Friends Meeting House (1768), the oldest building in the country continuously in its original use. With its authoritative text and stunning full-color photography, Stone Houses of Bucks County is a beautiful record of a historically rich building tradition.

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L'autore:

Margaret Bye Richie is an architectural historian who has specialized in the buildings of Bucks County. She is the author of Victorian Sketchbook.
Gregory D. Huber is an architectural historian and authority on old houses. He is the co-author of New World Dutch Barn: The Evolution, Forms, and Structure of a Disappearing Icon.
John D. Milner is an architect who has specialized in the restoration of early houses in the Delaware Valley for the past 30 years.
Geoffrey Gross is the photographer of Dutch Colonial Homes in America.

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• Editore: Rizzoli Intl Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0847826872
• ISBN 13: 9780847826872
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224