{"product_id":"framed-houses-of-massachusetts-bay-1625-1725","title":"Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFramed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAbbott Lowell Cummings\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0674316800\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBelknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1979\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e280\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA nation's buildings are a record of the character and aspirations of its people. In a rich blend of social and architectural history, Abbott Lowell Cummings reconstructs, through text and pictures, the framed houses of Massachusetts Bay that reflect the straightforward honesty of our earliest northern settlers and their profound love of craftsmanship. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA substantial number of the nation's seventeenth-century houses have been preserved in Massachusetts, and Cummings provides illustrations for a majority of them. He describes the dwellings in detail, and includes architectural drawings that were especially commissioned for this book. He demonstrates that the builders were far more sophisticated than previously imagined and that, while maintaining their English timber-building traditions, they were astonishingly adaptable to their new environment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeyond the houses themselves, Cummings discusses evolutions in pioneer life. The most simple kinds of changes in architecture, Cummings shows, indicated singular changes in family living. Such additions as kitchens and parlors, or the moving of the master bedroom to a second floor, suggest shifts in the private and social lives of families. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay\u003c\/i\u003e is a splendid story of innovations-- of restless, migratory people and their architectural and social responses to the heavily forested New World. It is the first chapter in the long saga of America's preoccupation with technology as it affected the early American home.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725 | Abbott Lowell Cummings | Hardcover | 0674316800 | Used: Good | Back Stacks R 1782909","offer_id":50532312023192,"sku":"1782909","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91RJItubtoL.jpg?v=1790353423","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/framed-houses-of-massachusetts-bay-1625-1725","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}