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Book The Colonial Craftsman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carl Bridenbaugh
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2012-05-04
  • ISBN : 0486144739
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book The Colonial Craftsman written by Carl Bridenbaugh and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excellent study examines lives and work of American cabinetmakers, silversmiths, pewterers, printers, painters, blacksmiths, and many other artisans, before 1775. "A fascinating study." — The New Yorker. 18 illustrations.

Book Colonial Craftsmen

Download or read book Colonial Craftsmen written by and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-07-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the shops, working methods, and products of the different types of tradesmen and craftsmen who shaped the early American economy.

Book Colonial Craftsmen

Download or read book Colonial Craftsmen written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The California House

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  • Author : Kathryn Masson
  • Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
  • Release : 2011-04-05
  • ISBN : 0847835855
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book The California House written by Kathryn Masson and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aura and romance of Old California lives on in this treasury of inviting homes. The California House presents the magic of the "golden state," that land of infinite promise and dreams, the most tangible expression of which can be found in the homes built by early California dreamers. Here domestic visions of tranquility and repose were inventively realized—in stucco or stone, wood and wrought iron, plaster, and glass and tile. Spanish Colonial Revival–style homes with elaborate wrought-iron window grilles, romantic, shadowy interiors, and lush courtyard gardens stand beside other particularly Californian architectural wonders such as the San Francisco Victorian Painted Lady, the Monterey Colonial, Eurekan Queen Anne, and the homey California Arts & Crafts. Including houses designed by luminaries George Washington Smith, Stanford White, Greene & Greene, and Reginald Johnson, this book will fascinate both the architecture aficionado and interior design enthusiasts, as well as the everyday lover of homes. Including, but going beyond, the much-adored Spanish style (in its many manifestations) and Mission Revival, the book features as well the Victorian of San Francisco's Painted Lady and Eureka's Queen Anne, Monterey Colonial, California Arts & Crafts, French Chateau, classic Colonial farm house, and more. All new color photography of 25 houses in California ranging in style from Spanish Colonial Revival, Mission, Victorian, Queen Anne, California Arts & Crafts, Monterey, French Chateau, Colonial Farm House. The book includes little known California work by well known architect Stanford White, known primarily for his East Coast work (designer of the original Penn Station with McKim, Mead & White, and original Madison Square Garden, and many others); as well as the Magdelena Zanone House (Queen Anne late Victorian style home in Eureka, CA); the Murphy House, San Francisco (Classic French Chateau); a Gothic Victorian 1860s home in Sonoma; Casa Amesti (Monterey style home); "El Cerrito" designed by Russel Ray and Winsor Soule and built in 1913 in Santa Barbara (an amalgam of Mission and Spanish Colonial Revival); the Frothingham House designed by George Washington Smith in 1922 (Spanish Colonial Rev.); Cuartro Ventos House by Reginald Johnson, 1929 in Santa Barbara; William Edwards House by Roland E. Coate, Sr. in San Marino, 1926; Robinson House by Greene and Greene in Pasadena, 1905; Sack House in Berkeley (California Arts & Crafts) Brune-Reutlinger House in San Francisco (classic Painted Lady Victorian); a colonial mid-19th cent farm house in Sonoma; "Mariposa," classic Spanish style in Montecito; The Marston House in San Diego (Arts & Crafts/Tudoresque); Rancho Los Alamos De Santa Elena in Los Alamos (Span. Col. Rev.); Pepper Hill Farm in Balard.

Book A Colonial Craftsman

Download or read book A Colonial Craftsman written by Mary Wilds and published by Lucent Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the lives of those who worked as craftsmen in colonial America, including apprentices, blacksmiths, gunsmiths, silversmiths, wigmakers, and printers.

Book Colonial Craftsmen and the Beginnings of American Industry

Download or read book Colonial Craftsmen and the Beginnings of American Industry written by Edwin Tunis and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Artisan of Ipswich

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  • Author : Robert Tarule
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2007-10-15
  • ISBN : 1421405857
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book The Artisan of Ipswich written by Robert Tarule and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Dennis emigrated to America from England in 1663, settling in Ipswich, a Massachusetts village a long day's sail north of Boston. He had apprenticed in joinery, the most common method of making furniture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain, and he became Ipswich's second joiner, setting up shop in the heart of the village. During his lifetime, Dennis won wide renown as an artisan. Today, connoisseurs judge his elaborately carved furniture as among the best produced in seventeenth-century America. Robert Tarule, historian and accomplished craftsman, brilliantly recreates Dennis's world in recounting how he created a single oak chest. Writing as a woodworker himself, Tarule vividly portrays Dennis walking through the woods looking for the right trees; sawing and splitting the wood on site; and working in his shop on the chest—planing, joining, and carving. Dennis inherited a knowledge of wood and woodworking that dated back centuries before he was born, and Tarule traces this tradition from Old World to New. He also depicts the natural and social landscape in which Dennis operated, from the sights, sounds, and smells of colonial Ipswich and its surrounding countryside to the laws that governed his use of trees and his network of personal and professional relationships. Thomas Dennis embodies a world that had begun to disappear even during his lifetime, one that today may seem unimaginably distant. Imaginatively conceived and elegantly executed, The Artisan of Ipswich gives readers a tangible understanding of that distant past.

Book Valley of the Craftsmen

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  • Author : William L. Fox
  • Publisher : Supreme Council/Thirty Three degree
  • Release : 2001-01
  • ISBN : 9780970874917
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Valley of the Craftsmen written by William L. Fox and published by Supreme Council/Thirty Three degree. This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Valley of the Craftsmen, the story of "higher degree" Freemasonry is depicted through portraits, official papers, material objects, photographs, buildings, and stagecraft. Featuring many previously unpublished images, Valley of the Craftsmen begins with rare illustrations of the English and French philosophical sources that were projected upon an American landscape vitalized and transformed by the concept of fraternity. The story is framed by American popular culture and the serious private effort of individual men in small towns and expansive cities who were intent on developing a moral life in service to their communities.

Book Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic

Download or read book Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic written by Fiske Kimball and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed, comprehensive history of the evolution of American domestic architecture from 1620 to 1825, with 219 photographs, floor plans, drawings, and elevations. Authoritative, scholarly, and highly readable.

Book The Blacksmith

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  • Author : Bobbie Kalman
  • Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780778707479
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book The Blacksmith written by Bobbie Kalman and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the tools, activities, and importance of the blacksmith in colonial communities.

Book Jeremiah Dummer

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  • Author : Hermann Frederick Clarke
  • Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
  • Release : 1970-01-21
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 752 pages

Download or read book Jeremiah Dummer written by Hermann Frederick Clarke and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1970-01-21 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California Colonial Homes

Download or read book California Colonial Homes written by S. F. Cook and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work by leading architects - including Wallace Neff, Gordon Kauffman, Roland Coate, and George Washington Smith - is featured in forty-four beautiful homes built in California during the 1920s and '30s. More than 300 images illustrate the aesthetic of authentic Mediterranean form, furnished in Mission style and landscaped appropriately for a lifestyle centered around courtyards and conducted beneath shaded verandas. In many cases, the projects include the architect's hand-rendered site and floor plans.

Book Craftsman Homes

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  • Author : Gustav Stickley
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2012-07-18
  • ISBN : 0486145719
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Craftsman Homes written by Gustav Stickley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 296 architectural drawings, floor plans, and photographs illustrate 40 different kinds of "Mission-style" homes from The Craftsman (1901-16), voice of American style of simplicity and organic harmony.

Book Southern Furniture 1680 1830

Download or read book Southern Furniture 1680 1830 written by Ronald Hurst and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a history of the South's cabinetmaking traditions

Book Religion  Community  and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier

Download or read book Religion Community and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier written by James Van Horn Melton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a mountain community fleeing religious persecution in its native Salzburg. This study traces the lives of the settlers from the alpine world they left behind to their struggle for survival on the southern frontier of British America. Exploring their encounters with African and indigenous peoples with whom they had had no previous contact, this book examines their initial opposition to slavery and why they ultimately embraced it. Transatlantic in scope, this study will interest readers of European and American history alike.

Book The Craftsman

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 674 pages

Download or read book The Craftsman written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings

Download or read book Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings written by Mary Harrod Northend and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: