Storybook cottages; America's Carpenter Gothic style.
Montgomery, Gladys.
Rizzoli Intl. Pub. Inc.
2011
224 pages
$45.00
Hardcover
NA7207
Much more than a visual tour of America's 19th-century Carpenter Gothic homes, this book offers a thorough treatment in both text and images. Distinguished by elaborate exterior details--steep gables, pointed arches, diamond-paned windows, scrollwork ornamentation, and big porches--the style is rooted in the Gothic cathedrals of medieval Europe. Architecture writer Montgomery traces the style's history, prominent proponents (Alexander Jackson Davis and Andrew Jackson Downing), and hallmarks as well as interiors and furniture, and gardens. The illustrations are lavish and include full page photos from The Historic American Buildings survey and by prominent architecture photographers, period etchings and watercolors, and plates from period pattern books.
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