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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
12921Houses and Homes: Exploring Their History
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Howe, Barbara J., et al
  • AltaMira Press
  • 1997
Description:
How and why to explore an house's history using the setting, written records, oral and visual sources, and the home itself as resources. Also discusses the American dream of owning a home, construction techniques and materials, and more.
12940Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Blumenson, John J.-G.
  • Altamira Press
  • 1995
Description:
Covers styles with minimal text and black and white photographs. Styles include: Spanish Colonial, Mission, Pueblo, Spanish Colonial Revival, New England Colonial, Southern Colonial. French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, Georgian, Federal, Roman Classicism, Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Egyptian Revival, Gothic Revival, Victorian Gothic, Italian Villa, Italianate, Renaissance Revival, Second Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival, Victorian Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque, Octagon, Chateau, Second Empire Easter Stick, Western Stick, Eastlake, Shingle, Queen Anne, Sullivanesque, Beaux-Arts Clasicism, New-Classicism, Bungalow, Prairie, International, Art Deco, Art Moderne [show more]
17126Building an American Identity: pattern book homes and communities 1870-1900
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Houses
  • Smeins, Linda E.
  • AltaMira Press
  • 1999
17254Early Buildings of Mid-Coast Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • Fossel, Leslie T.
  • by the author
  • 1994.
16423Victorian House Coloring Book
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Helberg, Kristin
  • Dover Publications
  • 1980
Description:
Black and white drawings of rooms in Victorian house, with descriptions. Could be reproduced for coloring.
17128Preservationist’s Progress: Architectural Adventures in Conserving Yesterday’s Houses
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Houses
  • Howard, Hugh
  • Farrar, Straus, Giroux
  • 1991
13744Artistic Furniture and Architectural Interiors, Decorations, etc. During the Last Two and a Half Centuries By the Most Eminent Artists of that Period
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Interior Design
  • Other, Savage, Fred L.
  • George H. Polley and Co.
  • 1892
13105Eighteenth Century Architectural Ornamentation Furniture and Decoration
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Interior Design
  • Other, Savage, Fred L.
  • Pergolesi
  • George H. Polley and Co.
Description:
Eighteenth Century Architectural Ornamentation Furniture and Decoration
13104Artistic Furniture and Architechtural Interiors Decorations Ect.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Interior Design
  • Other, Savage, Fred L.
  • Polley, Geo. H.
  • George H. Polley and Co.
17127American Restoration Style: Victorian
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Brierton, Joan
  • Gibbs Smith
  • 1999
12923John Calvin Stevens: Domestic Architecture 1890-1930
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Stevens, John Calvin
  • Stevens, John Calvin II and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
  • Greater Portland Landmarks
  • 1990
Description:
A survey of architect Stevens's four decades of design taken from his photographs in albums, a change from the earlier line drawings. The primary photographer was Thomas Ellison. An introductory biographical essay was written by grandson John Calvin Stevens II.
17135Caring for Your Historic House
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Houses
  • Fisher, Charles E. Ed.
  • Harry N. Abrams
  • 1998
17125Victorian Interior Decoration: American Interiors 1830 - 1900
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Interior design
  • Moss, Roger W., and Gail Caskey Winkler
  • Henry Holt & Co.
  • 1986
16424Victorian Exterior Decoration: How To Paint your Nineteenth Century American House Historically
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Houses
  • Other, Painting
  • Moss, Roger W. and Gail Caskey Winkler
  • Henry Holt & Co.
  • 1992
12877Windows on the Past: Four Centuries of New England Homes
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Houses
  • Other, New England
  • Nylander, Jane C.
  • Little Brown
17137Working Windows: Guide to Repair & Restoration of Wood Windows.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Windows
  • Meany, Terence
  • Lyons Press
  • 1998
12922A Delight to All Who Knew It: The Maine Summer Architecture of William R. Emerson
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Emerson, William R.
  • Reed, Roger G.
  • Maine Citizens for Historic Preservation
  • 1995
Description:
The author is an architectural historian and has gathered information about the architects and builders of hotels and cottages, along with their clients, beginning in the late 19th century and continuing to today. This work focuses on the work of William R. Emerson.
12546A Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architects
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Maine
  • Maine Historic Preservation Commission
Description:
Series of pamphlets, one for each named architect, inserted into red folder. Architects: Parris, Alexander Peabody and Stearns Romer, Colonel Wolfgang William Kent, Rockwell Chamberlain, Calvin Kimball, John Jr. Keely, Patrick C. Kilham, Hopkins & Greeley Lawrence, Ellis F. Longfellow, William Pitt Preble Rand, James H. Stanley, Freeman A. Wheelwright, Edmund M. Harrison, Wallace K. Dunton, Ebenezer Lord, Thomas M. Mullett Alfred B. Bassford, Asher B. Grain, Peter Sr. Also contains a Preliminary Historical Checklist of Landscape Architects in Maine by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. [show more]
17111Spirit of New England
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, New England
  • Mullins, Lisa C., ed.
  • National Historical Society
  • 1988
17129Caring for Your Old House: a guide for owners & residents.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Houses
  • Kitchen, Judith L.
  • Preservation Press
  • 1991
17132Walls & Moldings: How To Care for Old & Historic Wood & Plaster
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Moldings
  • Other, Plasterwork
  • Other, Walls
  • Other, Woodwork
  • Shivers, Natalie
  • Preservation Press
  • 1990
17501America’s Favorite Buildings
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, United States
  • Preservation Press
  • 1992
12958Maine Cottages: Fred L. Savage and the Architecture of Mount Desert
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architects
  • Other, Architectural drawings
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Bryan, John M.
  • Princeton Architectural Press
  • 2005
Description:
In the words of the introduction, written by Robert R. Pyle, this book "preserves the memories relevant to understanding the roots of communities on Mount Desert Island." It includes sections on Savage's ancestors and the history artists, tourism, and recreation on the island; his education and training and photographs and descriptions of buildings designed by him in Northeast Harbor, Islesboro, and Bar Harbor.
17130Domestic Views
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architects
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, History
  • Kvalsvic, Erik and William Seale
  • The American Institute of Architects Press
  • 1992
17112Survey of Early American Design
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Mullins, Lisa C., ed.
  • The National Historical Society
  • 1987