Historic New England

The nature of ornament :rhythm and metamorphosis in architecture /Kent Bloomer.

240 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Bloomer, Kent C., 1935-

GUSN: 225757

Call Number: Stacks NK1530.B58 2000

Houses and gardens by E.L. Lutyens /described and criticised by Lawrence Weaver.

xl, 344 p. : ill., plans ; 31 cm.

Date: 1981.

Creators: Weaver, Lawrence, Sir, 1876-

GUSN: 225759

Call Number: Stacks NA997.L8 W4 1981

The heart of our cities;the urban crisis: diagnosis and cure.

368 p. illus. (part col.) maps. 24 cm.

Date: 1967, c. 1964.

Creators: Gruen, Victor, 1903-

GUSN: 225761

Call Number: Stacks NA9108.G76 1967

Urban design :the architecture of towns and cities /written and illustrated by Paul D. Spreiregen for the American Institute of Architects.

xi, 243 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1965.

Creators: Spreiregen, Paul D. American Institute of Architects

GUSN: 225763

Call Number: Stacks NA9031.S65 1965

A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture.

2 v. in 3, 264 p. of plates (some col.) : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1850.

Creators: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884.

GUSN: 225765

Call Number: Rare NA31.P31 1850 Part 1 (and 2 more)

New England lighthouses :Bay of Fundy to Long Island Sound /photographs by Bruce Roberts ; text by Ray Jones.

101 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 28 cm.

Date: c1996.

Creators: Roberts, Bruce, 1930- Jones, Ray, 1948-

GUSN: 225784

Call Number: Stacks VK1024.N38 R625 1996

Lighthouses of New England :your guide to the lighthouses of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut /text by Jon Marcus ; photography by Susan Cole Kelly.

160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Marcus, Jon, 1960-

GUSN: 225786

Call Number: Stacks VK1024.N38 M37 2001

Maine lighthouses :a pictorial guide /photography and text Courtney Thompson ; maps and line graphics Wesley A. Shaw.

128 p. : col. ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Date: c1996.

Creators: Thompson, Courtney. Shaw, Wesley A.

GUSN: 225788

Call Number: Stacks VK1024.M2 T49 1996

Lighthouses /Norton/library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design & Engineering / Sara E. Wermiel.

358 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).

Date: c2006.

Creators: Wermiel, Sara E.

GUSN: 225790

Call Number: 85M Stacks TC375.W525 2006

Jacobsen's biographical index of American artists :artists native to the United States or working in the United States from 1606 to 2002 /compiled and edited by Anita Jacobsen.

v. (xiii, 3640 p.) ; 30 cm.

Date: c2002-

Creators: Jacobsen, Anita.

GUSN: 225792

Call Number: Ref. N6536.J33 2002

Fables. By the late Mr. Gay.

[1 v.] ill. 20 cm.

Date: 1755.

Creators: Gay, John, 1685-1732.

GUSN: 225794

Call Number: Rare PR3473.F3 1755

Brick and marble in the middle ages :notes of a tour in the north of Italy /by George Edmund Street.

xx, 287, 32 p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. (6 col.) ; 23 cm.

Date: 1855.

Creators: Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881.

GUSN: 225818

Call Number: Rare NA1113.S8 1855

Contrasts:or, A parallel between the noble edifices of the middle ages, and corresponding buildings of the present day, shewing the present decay of taste.Accompanied by appropriate text. By A. Welby Pugin.

v, 104 p. front., illus., plates. 30 cm.

Date: 1841.

Creators: Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852.

GUSN: 225820

Call Number: Rare NA440.P85 1841

Cottage residences;or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds.Adapted to North America. By A.J. Downing.

xvi, 261 p. front., illus., plates (1 col.) plans. 26 cm.

Date: 1873.

Creators: Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852. Sargent, Henry Winthrop, 1810-1882. Downing, Charles. Harney, George E., ed.

GUSN: 225822

Call Number: Rare NA7561.D8 1873

A treatise on building in water :in two parts. Part I. Particularly relative to the repair and re-building of Essex-Bridge, Dublin, ... Part II. Concerning an attempt to contrive and introduce quick and cheap methods, ... : principally addressed and peculiarly adapted to young and unexperienced readers : illustrated with sixty-three copper-plates /by George Semple.

157 p., 63 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 27 cm.

Date: M.DCC.LXXVI [1776]

Creators: Semple, George, 1700?-1782?

GUSN: 225824

Call Number: Rare TG320.S4 1776

A schedule of the buildings and their occupancy, on the principal streets and wharves in the city of Boston.Surveyed and published expressly for the use of insurance companies by John E. Whiting ...

211 p. 22 x 28 cm.

Date: [c1877]

Creators: Whiting, John Eaton.

GUSN: 225827

Call Number: Rare F73.7.W58 1877

The House of the Seven Gables :historic structure report /prepared by Finch & Rose and Anne Andrus Grady

3 v. (loose leaf) : ill. (some col.), plans ; 30 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Grady, Anne Andrus Finch, William B. House of the Seven Gables Settlement Association

GUSN: 225829

Call Number: Stacks F74.S1 F56 2008 vol. I (and 2 more)

Louis Sullivan, prophet of modern architecture /by Hugh Morrison.

xxi, 317 p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Creators: Morrison, Hugh, 1905-1978.

GUSN: 225831

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.S9 M6 1962

Boston: portrait of a city.Photographs by Katherine Knowles.

112 p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: 1964.

Creators: Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905-1978. Knowles, Katharine, ill.

GUSN: 225833

Call Number: Stacks F73.37.W63 1964

Classical architecture :the poetics of order /Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre.

x, 306 p. : ill., plans ; 24 cm.

Date: c1986.

Creators: Tzonis, Alexander. Lefaivre, Liane. Tzonis, Alexander. Taal van de klassicistiese architektuur.

GUSN: 225835

Call Number: Stacks NA260.T96 1986

Crossroads :stories of Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1912-2000 /[compiled by] Sarah Boyer ; with an historic overview by Charles M. Sullivan.

264 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Boyer, Sarah, 1947- Cambridge Historical Commission.

GUSN: 225837

Call Number: Stacks F74.C1 C76 2001

The architecture book /by Norval White.

343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: White, Norval, 1926-2009.

GUSN: 225839

Call Number: Stacks NA31.W45 1976

The architecture of the city /Aldo Rossi ; introduction by Peter Eisenman ; translation by Diane Ghirardo and Joan Ockman ; revised for the American edition by Aldo Rossi and Peter Eisenman.

201 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1984, c1982.

Creators: Rossi, Aldo, 1931-1997. Eisenman, Peter, 1932- Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.

GUSN: 225841

Call Number: Stacks NA9031.R3713 1984

Studies in art, architecture and design :Victorian and after /Nikolaus Pevsner.

288 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1982, c1968.

Creators: Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902-

GUSN: 225843

Call Number: Stacks N6350.P464 1981

The crowning of the American landscape :eight great spaces and their buildings /Walter L. Creese.

xi, 289 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm., "From areas as large as the Hudson Valley and Yosemite National Park to those as small as the Fens in Boston and Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Valley, Walter Creese analyzes the historical essence of eight distinguished American sites and their architecture."-...

Date: c1985.

Creators: Creese, Walter L.

GUSN: 225845

Call Number: Stacks SB470.53.C74 1985

Cambridge on the Charles /by Alan Seaburg, Thomas Dahill, Carol Rose.

xviii, 300 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: 2001.

Creators: Seaburg, Alan, 1932- Dahill, Thomas. Rose, Carol (Carol Hilma)

GUSN: 225847

Call Number: Stacks F74.C1 S43 2001

Borderland :origins of the American suburb, 1820-1939 /John R. Stilgoe.

xiv, 353 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1988.

Creators: Stilgoe, John R., 1949-

GUSN: 225849

Call Number: 85M Stacks HT352.U6 S75 1988

The handbook of needlework / by Miss Lambert.

xii, 400 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1843.

Creators: Lambert, Miss (F.)

GUSN: 154179

Call Number: Coll. TT750.L22 1843

Somersworth : an historical sketch / by William D. Knapp.

163 p. : ill.

Date: 1894?]

Creators: Knapp, William Daniel.

GUSN: 154180

Call Number: Stacks F44.S66 K63

Provincetown / John Hardy Wright.

2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1997-1998.

Creators: Wright, John Hardy.

GUSN: 154181

Call Number: Stacks F74.P96 W75 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Freedom's doors : immigrant ports of entry to the United States : an exhibition in the Museum of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, March 11, 1986-September 30, 1992 / edited by Gail F. Stern.

v, 91 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1986.

Creators: Stern, Gail F. Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies. Museum.

GUSN: 154182

Call Number: Stacks JV6450.F74 1986

The bridal souvenir / compiled by Rev. Samuel Cutler.

80 p.

Date: c1892.

Creators: Cutler, Samuel, 1805-1880.

GUSN: 154183

Call Number: Stacks HQ746.C93 1892

Depression glass III / Sandra McPhee Stout.

44 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1976]

Creators: Stout, Sandra McPhee.

GUSN: 154184

Call Number: Coll. NK5439.D44 S86 1976

Art and industry as represented in the exhibition at the Crystal Palace, New York--1853-4; showing the progress and state of the various useful and esthetic pursuits. From the New York Tribune.

xxv, [13]-386 p. 19cm.

Date: 1853.

Creators: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.

GUSN: 154185

Call Number: Stacks T783.B1 G8

The collecting of antiques / by Esther Singleton.

xix, 338 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1941 [i.e. 1926 (1941 printing)].

Creators: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930.

GUSN: 154186

Call Number: Stacks NK1125.S5 1941

The deserted farm house, illustrated, and other poems / by Varnum Lincoln.

123 p. : ill.

Date: 1909, c1899.

Creators: Lincoln, Varnum, 1819-1907.

GUSN: 154187

Call Number: Stacks PS2246.L523 1909

Aladdin homes : built in a day : catalog no. 31 / the Aladdin Company.

115, [3] p. : ill. (part col.) plans ; 22 cm.

Date: 1919]

Creators: Aladdin Company.

GUSN: 154188

Call Number: 85M Stacks TH4819.P7 A5 1919

The Year book of the Boston Architectural Club. (Annual.)

v. : ill. ; 35 cm.

Creators: Boston Architectural Club. Boston Society of Architects.

GUSN: 154189

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA11.B67 1908 (and 14 more)

English architecture at a glance : a simple review in pictures of the periods of English architecture, with historical notes / by Frederick Chatterton.

64 p. : ill.

Date: 1923.

Creators: Chatterton, Frederick, 1871-1934.

GUSN: 154190

Call Number: Stacks NA961.C5 1923

The old halls and manor houses of Yorkshire : with some examples of other houses built before the year 1700 / Louis Ambler.

xv, 97 p. : 110 plates, ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1913.

Creators: Ambler, Louis.

GUSN: 154191

Call Number: Stacks NA7621.Y5 A6

Mount Vernon, Washington's home and the nation's shrine, by Paul Wilstach.

4 p. l., vii-xvi, [4], 3-301 p. front., illus, plates, ports., map, plans, facsim. 27 cm.

Date: 1916.

Creators: Wilstach, Paul, 1870-1952.

GUSN: 154192

Call Number: Stacks E312.5.W743

Bungalows; their design, construction and furnishing, with suggestions also for camps, summer homes and cottages of similar character by Henry H. Saylor.

6 p. l., 188, [3] p. front., illus. (incl. plans) 26 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Saylor, Henry H. (Henry Hodgman), b. 1880.

GUSN: 154193

Call Number: Stacks NA7571.S2 1911

Hyde's 1915 street list and general directory of Boston.

454 p.

Date: 1915.

GUSN: 154194

Call Number: Stacks F73.2.B688 1915

Boston's streets also its avenues, courts, places, etc. showing the numbers and divisions of those extending through more than one ward or precinct ... / prepared by Board of Street Commissioners.

232 p. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Boston (Mass.). Street Laying-Out Dept.

GUSN: 154195

Call Number: Stacks TE25.B72 1925

Gazetteer of the state of New-Hampshire in three parts / Comp. from the best authorities, by Eliphalet Merrill and the late Phinehas Merrill, esq.

211 p. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1817.

Creators: Merrill, Eliphalet. Merrill, Phinehas, 1767-1815.

GUSN: 154196

Call Number: Stacks F32.F23 1817

Glossographia : or, a dictionary interpreting all such hard words, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Teutonick, Belgick, British or Saxon; as are now used in our refined English tongue. Also the terms of divinity, law, physick, mathematicks, heraldry, anatomy, war, musick, architecture; and of several other arts and sciences explicated. With etymologies, defintions, and historical observations on the same. Very useful for all such as desire to understand what they read / by T. B. of the Inner-Temple, barrester.

[687] p. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1656.

Creators: Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.

GUSN: 154197

Call Number: Rare PE1670.A2 B57 1656

The carpenter's treasure : a collection of designs for temples, with their plans, gates, doors, rails, and bridges, in the Gothic taste; with the centres at large, for striking Gothic curves and mouldings; and some specimens of rails, in the Chinese taste: forming a complete system for rural decorations. / Neatly engraved on sixteen plates, from the original drawings of N. Wallis, architect.

[4] p., XVI leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: [1---?]

Creators: Wallis, N.

GUSN: 154198

Call Number: Rare NA8450.W35

A handbook of ornament : a grammar of art industrial and architectural designing in all its branches for practical as well as thoretical use / by Franz Sales Meyer.

548 p. : ill., plates.

Date: [195? - 19??]

Creators: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-

GUSN: 154199

Call Number: Stacks NK1510.M6

Metropolitan improvements, or, London in the nineteenth century : displayed in a series of engravings of the new buildings, improvements, &c. by the most eminent artists from original drawings, taken from the objects themselves expressly for this work / by Thos. H. Shepherd ; ... with historical, topographical, and critical illustrations by James Elmes.

vi, 172, ii p., [80] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1827

Creators: Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer) Elmes, James, 1782-1862.

GUSN: 154200

Call Number: Rare DA683.S55 1827

Hints on public architecture : containing, among other illustrations, views and plans of the Smithsonian institution : together with an appendix relative to building materials / prepared, on behalf of the building committee of the Smithsonian institution, by Robert Dale Owen, chairman of the committee.

xvii, 119 p. : ill., plan ; cm.

Date: 1849.

Creators: Owen, Robert Dale, 1801-1877. Smithsonian Institution.

GUSN: 154201

Call Number: Rare NA4170.O93 1849

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