Author: DRAKE, SAMUEL ADAMS
Title: Our Colonial Homes
Description: Boston: Lee & Shepard Publishers, 1894. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 7 1/2 x 10 1/4; 211+ pages; Hard cover is red cloth with gold lettering on front and spine. All gilt edges, which are still very bright. Some light bumping and rubbing to covers. Tiny bit of sticker residue on front end paper. On a front page there is a tidy inscription, appears to be written with a fountain pen, dated 1895. Pages are clean and tight; illustrated with 41 b/w photographs. Drake was a prolific author. "One end which I proposed to myself in this book, besides presenting house and home historically, was to gather up as many distinct types of the colonial architecture of New England as possible, from the rude farmhouse of the first settlers to the elegant mansion of a later generation, as it seems to me nothing could give half so clear a picture of a century and a half of colonial life. It was this idea alone which could give cohesion to a series of sketches having little connection in themselves, except as recording fragments of history that had become scattered with the lapse of time".. Very Good+ .

Keywords: Reference; New England History; Historic Architecture; Historic Homes; Architecture; Residences; Early American Architecture; Massachusetts History; Regional Architecture; Cultural History Education Architecture American History Furniture/Interiors/Decora