Newport Mansions: The Gilded Age

This 88 page book features descriptive text and dozens of lovely color photos of the exterior and interior of these famed Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age: The Breakers, Kingscote, The Elms, Chateau-sur-Mer, Rosecliff, Marble House, Hunter House, and the garden Green Animals.

History

Cheek, Richard

Americas

Foremost Pub

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A Delight to All Who Know It: The Maine Summer Architecture of William R. Emerson

Arts & Photography

Reed, Roger G.

Maine Historic Preservation Commission

Architecture

Maine Historic Preservation

Spectacular color photographs of the 1.1 million acres of land in Massachusetts that are permanently protected from development.

Land of the Commonwealth: A Portrait of the Conserved Landscapes of Massachusetts

Photography & Video

University of Massachusetts Press

Published to accompany the exhibition "Selling the Dwelling: The Books That Built America's Houses, 1775-2000," on show at the Grolier Club December 11, 2013-February 7, 2014. The evolution of the house design book in the United States is a long and complicated story, filled with architectural creativity and banality, commercial genius and excess, egalitarian and humanitarian ideals, literary and social ambition, can-do individualism, faith in progress and invention, and endless energy. All of these quintessential American traits are bound within the pages of the builder's guides, pattern books, catalogues, and other forms of architectural literature that have competed for the financial and psychological rewards involved in designing and building a domestic haven for every citizen. In this illustrated survey - the first of its kind to showcase the enormous variety and graphic appeal of these materials - Richard Cheek highlights the more visually arresting and socially compelling exampl

Selling the Dwelling: The Books That Built America’s Houses, 1775–2000

History & Criticism

The Grolier Club

Playing Soldier: The Books and Toys That Prepared Children for War, 1871–1918

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Hardback book with dust jacket, 128 pages. Lots of color photos.

Old Richmond Today

The Council of Historic Richmond Foundation

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