Historic New England

The modern house-carpenter's companion and builders guide : being a hand-book for workmen, and a manual of reference for contractors and builders / by W. A. Sylvester.

210 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Date: c1883.

Creators: Sylvester, W. A. (William Allen)

GUSN: 147432

Call Number: Stacks TH5608.S97 1883b

The rocking chair book / Ellen and Bert Denker ; foreword by Kenneth L. Ames.

192 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1979.

Creators: Denker, Ellen. Denker, Bert, 1946- joint author.

GUSN: 147433

Call Number: 85M Stacks TS886.5.C45 D46 1979 c.1 (and 1 more)

American furniture, Queen Anne and Chippendale periods, in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, by Joseph Downs. Foreword by Henry Francis du Pont.

1 v. (various pagings) illus., col. plates. 31 cm.

Date: [1967, c1952]

Creators: Downs, Joseph. Du Pont, Henry Francis, 1880- Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

GUSN: 147434

Call Number: Coll. NK2406.D69

The bungalow book, by Charles E. White, jr. Drawings by the author.

7 p. ¾., 221 p. illus., plates, plans. 21 cm.

Date: 1923.

Creators: White, Charles Elmer, 1876-

GUSN: 147435

Call Number: Stacks NA7571.W5

Windsor chairmaking / by Michael Dunbar ; photos. by Eric White.

153 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1976.

Creators: Dunbar, Michael.

GUSN: 147436

Call Number: Coll. TS886.5.C45 D86

The practical book of period furniture : treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods / by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Abbot McClure ; With 250 illustrations ; the colour plate and text illustrations from drawings by Abbot McClure.

371 p., [67] pages of plates : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1914.

Creators: Eberlein, Harold Donaldson. McClure, Abbot, 1879-

GUSN: 147437

Call Number: Coll. NK2230.E3 1914a

The furniture of historic Deerfield / Dean A. Fales, Jr.

294 p. : ill. (some col.), map (on lining paper) ; 29 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Fales, Dean A.

GUSN: 147438

Call Number: Coll. NK2410.F34 1976 (and 2 more)

Colonial interiors; photographs and measured drawings of the colonial and early federal periods, by Leigh French, Jr., A.I.A., with an introduction by Charles Over Cornelius.

xvi p., 125 pl., 1 ¾. front. 34 cm.

Date: 1923.

Creators: French, Leigh, 1894-1946.

GUSN: 147439

Call Number: Stacks NA707.F7

The homes of our ancestors, as shown in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, from the beginnings of New England through the early days of the republic; exhibiting the development of the arts of interior architecture and house decoration, the arts of cabinetmaking, silversmithing, etc., especial emphasis being laid upon the point that our early craftsmen evolved from the fashions of the Old World a style of their own; with an account of the social conditions surrounding the life of the original owners of the various rooms. By R.T.H. Halsey and Elizabeth Tower; illustrated with many elegant plates.

xxvi, 302 p. mounted col. front., illus., plates (part mounted col.) ports., map. facsims. 26 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Halsey, R. T. Haines (Richard Townley Haines), 1865-1942. Tower, Elizabeth, joint author.

GUSN: 147440

Call Number: Stacks N611.A6 H3 1925a c.2 (and 2 more)

The furnishing of a modest home, by Fred Hamilton Daniels.

114 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: 1908.

Creators: Daniels, Fred Hamilton, 1872-

GUSN: 147441

Call Number: 85M Stacks NK2115.D2 1908

The cabinetmakers of America, by Ethel Hall Bjerkoe assisted by John Arthur Bjerkoe. Foreword by Russell Kettell.

xvii, 252 p. illus. 27 cm.

Date: 1957.

Creators: Bjerkoe, Ethel Hall.

GUSN: 147442

Call Number: Ref. NK2406.B55

The homes of our ancestors, as shown in the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, from the beginnings of New England through the early days of the Republic; by R. T. H. Halsey and Elizabeth Tower.

xxvi, 302 p. illus. (part col.) ports. (part col.) map. 26 cm.

Date: 1929 [c1925]

Creators: Halsey, R. T. Haines (Richard Townley Haines), 1865-1942. Tower, Elizabeth, joint author. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing.

GUSN: 147443

Call Number: Coll. N611.A6 H3 1929 c.1

The Connoisseur's complete period guides to the houses, decoration, furnishing and chattels of the classic periods / edited by Ralph Edwards and L. G. G. Ramsey.

1536 p. : ill., facsim., plans, ports. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1968, c1958.

Creators: Edwards, Ralph, 1894- ed. Ramsey, L. G. G., ed.

GUSN: 147444

Call Number: Stacks NK928.C63 1968 (and 1 more)

High styles : twentieth-century American design / introduction by Lisa Phillips ; essays by David A. Hanks ... [et al.].

xi, 212 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c1985.

Creators: Phillips, Lisa. Hanks, David A. Whitney Museum of American Art.

GUSN: 147445

Call Number: 85M Ref. NK1404.H53 1985 (and 1 more)

Old English furniture : its designers and craftsmen / M. Harris and Sons.

69 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: [1935]

Creators: M. Harris and Sons.

GUSN: 147446

Call Number: Coll. NK2528.H18

Finders' guide to decorative arts in the Smithsonian Institution / Christine Minter-Dowd.

213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1984.

Creators: Minter-Dowd, Christine. Smithsonian Institution.

GUSN: 147447

Call Number: Ref. NK460.W3 S67 1984

Innovative furniture in America from 1800 to the present : [exhibition] / David A. Hanks ; introduction by Russell Lynes ; with essays by Rodris Roth and Page Talbott ; participating museums, Cooper-Hewitt Museum ... [et al.].

200 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: c1981.

Creators: Hanks, David A. Roth, Rodris. Talbott, Page. Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

GUSN: 147448

Call Number: Coll. TS805.H3

Identifying American furniture : a pictorial guide to styles and terms, colonial to contemporary / Milo M. Naeve.

87 p. : ill. ; 16 x 24 cm.

Date: c1981.

Creators: Naeve, Milo M. American Association for State and Local History.

GUSN: 147449

Call Number: Stacks NK2405.N28 (and 3 more)

The work of many hands : card tables in Federal America, 1790-1820 / Benjamin A. Hewitt, Patricia E. Kane, Gerald W.R. Ward.

198 p. : ill (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: 1982.

Creators: Hewitt, Benjamin A. Kane, Patricia E. Ward, Gerald W. R. Yale University. Art Gallery.

GUSN: 147450

Call Number: Stacks NK2740.H48 1982 (and 2 more)

The House beautiful furnishing annual, 1925.

vii, 168 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 33 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955. Interior design, an introductory chapter.

GUSN: 147451

Call Number: Stacks NK2110.H6 1925 c.1 (and 1 more)

"The art that is life" : the arts & crafts movement in America, 1875-1920 / by Wendy Kaplan ; with contributions by Eileen Boris ... [et al.].

xiv, 410 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Date: c1987.

Creators: Kaplan, Wendy. Boris, Eileen, 1948- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 147452

Call Number: 85M Ref. NK1141.K37 1987b c.1 (and 1 more)

The Hitchcock chair; the story of a Connecticut Yankee--L. Hitchcock of Hitchcocks-ville--and an account of the restoration of his 19th-century manufactory.

x, 339 p. illus. 29 cm.

Date: [1971]

Creators: Kenney, John Tarrant.

GUSN: 147453

Call Number: Coll. NK2439.H5 K4 1971

Early American rooms : a consideration of the changes in style between the arrival of the Mayflower and the Civil War in the regions originally settled by the English and the Dutch / with articles by Frederick Lewis Allen ... [et al.] ; Russell Hawes Kettell, editor.

xvii, 200 p., [41] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: [1967].

Creators: Kettell, Russell Hawes. Allen, Frederick Lewis, 1890-1954.

GUSN: 147454

Call Number: Coll. NK2003.K4 1967 (and 1 more)

Arts of the United States, a pictorial survey. William H. Pierson, Jr. and Martha Davidson, editors.

x, 452 p. illus. 29 cm.

Date: [1960]

Creators: Pierson, William Harvey, 1911- ed. Davidson, Martha, joint ed.

GUSN: 147455

Call Number: Ref. N6505.P55

The ornamented chair: its development in America, 1700-1890.

173 p. illus. (part col.) 28 cm.

Date: [1960]

Creators: Lea, Zilla Rider, ed.

GUSN: 147456

Call Number: Coll. NK2715.L4 (and 1 more)

The Shell book of the home in Britain : decoration, design, and construction of vernacular interiors, 1500-1850 / James Ayres.

253 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Date: 1981.

Creators: Ayres, James.

GUSN: 147457

Call Number: Stacks NA7328.A9 (and 1 more)

Samuel McIntire; a bicentennial symposium, 1757-1957. Contributors: Abbot Lowell Cummings [and others] Benjamin W. Labaree, ed.

vii, 118 p. illus.

Date: 1957.

Creators: Essex Institute.

GUSN: 147358

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.M3 E77 1957

Mr. Samuel McIntire, carver, the architect of Salem, by Fiske Kimball.

xiii, 157 p. illus., fold. map, plates, plans. 31 cm.

Date: 1940.

Creators: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955. Essex Institute.

GUSN: 147359

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.M25 K5 1940 (and 1 more)

McKim, Mead & White, architects / Leland M. Roth.

xxi, 441 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1983.

Creators: Roth, Leland M.

GUSN: 147360

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.M4 R65 1983

Robert Mills, architect / edited by John M. Bryan.

196 p., [18] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: c1989.

Creators: Bryan, John Morrill.

GUSN: 147361

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.M5 R64 1989

The work of Oscar Niemeyer / Stamo Papadaki ; with a foreword by Lucio Costa.

e-k, 228 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1950

Creators: Niemeyer, Oscar, 1907- Papadaki, Stamo, ed.

GUSN: 147362

Call Number: Stacks NA859.N5 P1os 1950b

Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.; founder of landscape architecture in America [by] Julius Gy. Fabos, Gordon T. Milde, & V. Michael Weinmayr.

114 p. illus. (part fold.), maps, plans, ports. 26 cm.

Date: 1968.

Creators: Fabos, Julius Gy. Milde, Gordon T., joint author. Weinmayr, V. Michael, joint author.

GUSN: 147363

Call Number: Stacks SB470.O5 F32

Frederick Law Olmsted and the American environmental tradition.

xi, 180 p. illus. 26 cm.

Date: [1972]

Creators: Fein, Albert.

GUSN: 147364

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.O4 F4 1972

FLO: A biography of Frederick Law Olmsted.

xvii, 555 p. illus. 25 cm.

Date: [1973]

Creators: Roper, Laura Wood, 1911-

GUSN: 147365

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB470.O5 R66 1973

The papers of Frederick Law Olmsted.

v. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: c1977-<c1992 >

Creators: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903. McLaughlin, Charles Capen. Beveridge, Charles E.

GUSN: 147366

Call Number: Stacks SB470.O5 A2 1977

Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston park system / Cynthia Zaitzevsky.

ix, 262 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 31 cm.

Date: 1982.

Creators: Zaitzevsky, Cynthia.

GUSN: 147367

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB483.B73 Z34 1982

Palladio : a western progress / Desmond Guinness and Julius Trousdale Sadler, Jr.

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

Date: 1976.

Creators: Guinness, Desmond. Sadler, Julius Trousdale, joint author.

GUSN: 147368

Call Number: Stacks NA1123.P2 G78 1976

Palladio : a western progress / Desmond Guinness and Julius Trousdale Sadler, Jr.

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

Date: 1976.

Creators: Guinness, Desmond. Sadler, Julius Trousdale, joint author.

GUSN: 147369

Call Number: Stacks NA1123.P2 G78 1976

Andrea Palladio and the winged device; a panorama painted in prose and pictures setting forth the far-flung influence of Andrea Palladio, architect of Vicenza, Italy, 1518-1580, on architecture all over the world, from his own era to the present day. Illus. with drawings by the author and with photos.

xix, 330 p. illus., port. 26 cm.

Date: [1948]

Creators: Reynolds, James, 1891-

GUSN: 147370

Call Number: Stacks NA1123.P2 R4

The architectural career of Alexander Parris (1780-1852) / by Edward Francis Zimmer.

2 v. (lxiii, 675 leaves; 358 leaves of plates) : ill., plans.

Creators: Zimmer, Edward F. Parris, Alexander, 1780-1852.

GUSN: 147371

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.P37 Z56 1984a vol.1 (and 1 more)

Charles A. Platt, the artist as architect / Keith N. Morgan ; with A memoir by Geoffrey Platt.

xiv, 272 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1985.

Creators: Morgan, Keith N.

GUSN: 147372

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.P5 M67 1985

Architects of Charleston [by] Beatrice St. Julien Ravenel. Introduction by William Watts Ball. Photographs by Carl Julien.

xvi, [2], 329 p. illus. 26 cm.

Date: [c1945]

Creators: Ravenel, Beatrice St. Julien, 1904-1990. Julien, Carl Thomas, 1897- Carolina Art Association.

GUSN: 147373

Call Number: Stacks NA735.C35 R3

Selected drawings; Henry Hobson Richardson and his office; exhibition organized by the department of printing and graphic arts, Harvard College Library.

220 p. ill. (some col.)

Date: 1974.

Creators: Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886.

GUSN: 147374

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA735.R5 O35 (and 1 more)

The architecture of H. H. Richardson and his times.

xxiv, 311 p. plates, plans. 26 cm.

Date: 1936.

Creators: Hitchcock, Henry Russell, 1903- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 147375

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.R5 H5

Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands, comp. by Clara Endicott Sears; with Transcendental wild oats, by Louisa M. Alcott.

xvii, 185, [1] p. front., plates, ports. 20 cm.

Date: 1915.

Creators: Sears, Clara Endicott, 1863- comp. Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.

GUSN: 147376

Call Number: Stacks B908.A54 S4 1915

H.H. Richardson, complete architectural works / Jeffrey Karl Ochsner.

xiii, 466 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1982.

Creators: Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl.

GUSN: 147377

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.R5 A4 1982

Mies van der Rohe, by Philip C. Johnson.

215 p. illus., port., diagrs., plans. 26 cm.

Date: [c1953]

Creators: Johnson, Philip, 1906- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 147378

Call Number: Stacks NA1088.M65 N4 1953

Autobiography of Arthur A. Shurcliff : written winter of 1943-1944, with additions summer of 1946, summer of 1947 / Arthur A. Shurcliff.

108 p., bound : ill., maps (some fold.) ; 29 cm., Typescript (photocopy).

Date: 1943-1947.

Creators: Shurcliff, Arthur Asahel, 1870-1957.

GUSN: 147379

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB470.S5 S58x 1982

John Calvin Stevens, domestic architecture, 1890-1930 / by John Calvin Stevens II, Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.

223 p. : ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.

Date: 1990.

Creators: Stevens, John Calvin, d. 1990. Stevens, John Calvin. Shettleworth, Earle G.

GUSN: 147380

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.S643 S74 1990

William Strickland, architect and engineer, 1788-1854, by Agnes Addison Gilchrist.

1 v. (various pagings) illus., plans, ports. 29 cm.

Date: 1969.

Creators: Gilchrist, Agnes Addison, 1907-

GUSN: 147381

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.S68 G5 1969

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