New England rooms 1639-1863 / Samuel Chamberlain and Narcissa G. Chamberlain
1993, 1st edition. Stamford, Conn.: Architectural Book Pub. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #237002
ISBN: 0942655060
Notes: Originally published: The Chamberlain selection of New England rooms, 1639-1863. New York: Hastings House, 1972. With new introd. Includes index. Description: 192 pages: illustrations; 28 cm. Contents: Introduction / Walter Frese -- List of houses illustrated -- Antiquarian house, Concord, Mass. -- Ashley house (1733) Deerfield, Mass. -- Barnard, Parson, house (1718) North Andover, Mass. -- Barrett house (c.1800) New Ipswich, N.H. -- Beauport Gloucester, Mass. -- Brown, John, house (1786) Providence, R.I. -- Browne, Abraham, Jr., house (c.1690) Watertown, Mass. -- Bubier house (c.1700) -- Buttolph-Williams house (1692) Wethersfield, Conn. -- Capen, Parson, house (1683) Topsfield, Mass. -- Charleston house (1924) -- Chase house (1762) Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth, N.H. -- Coffin, Tristram, house (1651) Old Newbury, Mass. -- Craigie-Longfellow house (1759) Cambridge, Mass. -- Crowninshield-Bentley house (1727) Salem, Mass. -- Deane, Silas, house (1766) Wethersfield, Conn. -- Derby, Richard, house (1761-1762) Salem, Mass. -- Deshon-Allyn house (1829) New London, Conn. -- Gardner-Pingree house (1804) Salem, Mass. -- Gibson house (1859) Boston, Mass. -- Goodwin, Governor, Mansion (1811) Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth, N.H. -- Gore Place (1802-1804) Waltham, Mass. -- Gray house (1808) -- Hale, Nathan, Homestead (1776) South Coventry, Conn. -- Hamilton house (1787) South Berwick, Maine -- Hatheway house (1794) Suffield, Conn. -- Hempsted house (1678) New London, Conn. -- Hunter house (1748) Newport, R.I. -- Ironmaster's house (1643) Saugus, Mass. -- Kingscote (1841) Newport, R.I. -- Langdon Mansion (1784) Portsmouth, N.H. -- Lee, Jeremiah, Mansion (1768) Marblehead, Mass. -- Mission house (1739) Stockbridge, Mass. -- Moffatt-Ladd house (1763) Portsmouth, N.H. -- Nickels-Sortwell house (1807) Wiscasset, Maine -- Ogden house (c.1700) -- Pepperell, Lady, house (1760) Kittery Point, Maine -- Peirce-Nichols house (1782) Salem, Mass. -- Putnam cottage (1731) Greenwich, Conn. -- Roseland cottage (1846) Woodstock, Conn. -- Royall, Isaac, house (1732-1735) Medford, Mass. -- Ruggles house (1817-1818) Columbia Falls, Maine -- Rundlet-May house (1805) Portsmouth, N.H. -- Short house (1733) Old Newbury, Mass. -- Stanley-Whitman house (1660) Farmington, Conn. -- Time Stone Farm (c.1700) -- Vale, The (1798) Waltham, Mass. -- Victoria Mansion (1863) Portland, Maine -- Warner house (1716) Portsmouth, N.H. -- Webb, Joseph, house (1678-1752) Wethersfield, Conn. -- Webb, Richard, house (c.1700) -- Wendell, Jacob, house (1789) -- Whipple house (1640) Ipswich, Mass. -- White-Ellery house (1704) Gloucester, Mass. -- Whitehall (1727) Middletown, R.I. -- Whitfield, Henry, house (1639) Guilford, Conn. Summary; This treasury of good taste in design, decoration and furniture provides 300 black and white photos of 56 houses which range in age from the venerable Henry Whitfield House (1639) in Guilford, Connecticut, the oldest house in New England, to the extraordinary Victorian mansion in Portland, Maine, completed at the time of the Civil War. To the architect, antiquarian and the decorator, it should be invaluable. Subjects; Dictionaries; Residential buildings, domestic buildings; HOUSE & HOME / Design & Construction; ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General; Interior decoration - New England. Historic buildings - New England.
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