The doors are wide open and you're welcome to wander through. Don't worry about the carpets as you enter through stately doorways, cozy up to collosal fireplaces, and climb poetic staircases. For those who love the old homes of the New England area, this is a chance to enter and inspect the window sills and cupboards up close. Nearly 400 photographs and illustrations, along with helpful tips, are provided to guide the remodeller of Jacobean, Colonial, Georgian, and Federal homes toward duplicating these antique architectural features, plus there are architectural drawings from the Library of Congress and by Asher Benjamin, one of the leading New England builders and most influential designers of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- ISBN10 0887401147
- ISBN13 9780887401145
- Publish Date June 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 November 1997
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 176
- Language English