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Chesapeake House Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg

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ISBN-10: 0807835773

ISBN-13: 9780807835777

Edition: 2013

Authors: Cary Carson, Carl R. Lounsbury

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For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake region. Its painstaking work has transformed our understanding of building practices in the colonial and early national periods and thereby greatly enriched the experience of visiting historic sites. In this beautifully illustrated volume, a team of historians, curators, and conservators draw on their far-reaching knowledge of historic structures in Virginia and Maryland to illuminate the formation, development, and spread of one of the hallmark building traditions in America architecture.The essays…    
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Book details

List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/25/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 488
Size: 9.00" wide x 12.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 5.280
Language: English

Cary Carson is retired vice president of the research division at Colonial Williamsburg.

Carl R. Lounsbury is an architectural historian with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia. An author of Architects & Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building, he has taught early American architectural history at several institutions in Virginia, including Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. Lounsbury lives in Williamsburg.