| Details | | Publication Date: | 1992-09-01 |
| Size | | Height: | 12.0 in | | Width: | 9.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 54.4 oz |
Publisher's Note
A look at three centuries of life in America through 17 very different houses--all properties of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Includes true tales of the people who built and occupied the homes, creating a highly original and informative book. With a pictorial time-line of the 17 Trust properties. 200 illustrations, including 125 in full color.
Of Houses & Time mirrors three centuries of life in America as it recounts and illustrates stories of 17 very different houses, united today as properties of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The account begins in the 1740s at Drayton Hall, a South Carolina plantation renowned as one of the finest Palladian houses in America, and continues through the construction, and the rescue, of a modest home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright as a model residence for Americans. 200 color illustrations blend documentary black-and-white photographs with new color pictures of the houses as they look now, while and an illustrated "genealogy" includes information about visiting the houses, all of which are open to the public today.
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Mirrors three centuries of life in America through recounted and illustrated stories of 17 very different houses united today as properties of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Seale's narratives of the building and occupation of the houses are accompanied by 200 illustrations which blend documentary b&w photographs with new color photographs of the houses as they look now. 9.25x12 " . Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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