Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings

A recognized authority on historic barn preservation, Visser has combed the New England area for the representative barns and outbuildings featured in this collection. Two hundred of Visser's photographs accompany the text, which includes accounts from 18th- and 19th-century observers, describes key architectural characteristics, historic uses, and special features such as timbers and frames, sheathings, doors, and cupolas.

About the author

THOMAS DURANT VISSER is an Associate Professor and Director of the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Vermont and is the author of the forthcoming Porches of North America (UPNE, April 2012).

Summary

A generously illustrated handbook for identifying and understanding structures that symbolize the region's unique cultural and historical landscape

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Visser, Thomas Durant Visser
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1997
• EAN: 9780874517712
• ISBN: 978-0-87451-771-2
• No. of pages: 223
• Weight: 474 g
• Illustrations: 294 illus. 9 figs. Flexibound.
• Series: Library of New England; Library of New England
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Landwirtschaft, Architektur: Wohngebäude