Author | : Michael Olmert |
Publisher | : Unknown |
File Size | : 43,7 Mb |
Release Date | : 02 April 2023 |
ISBN | : UOM:39015080833125 |
Pages | : 312 pages |
Rating | : /5 ( users) |
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Takes us into the eighteenth-century backyards of colonial America. He explores the many small outbuildings that can still be found at obscure rural farmsteads throughout throughout the Tidewater and greater mid-Atlantic, in towns like Williamsburg and Annapolis, and at elite plantations such as Mount Vernon and Monticello. Explains how these well-made buildings actually functioned. The author is riveted by the history of outbuildings: their architecture, patterns of use, folklore, and even their literary presence. In two appendixes he also considers octagonal and hexagonal structures, which had special significance, both doctrinal and cultural, in early America.--from publisher description.