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Gray Scale Revolutionary City Architecture Restored District, Williamsburg, Va Geographic Area

Author : Dawn D. Boyer, Ph.D.
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781532929021
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Gray Scale Revolutionary City Architecture Restored District, Williamsburg, Va Geographic Area written by Dawn D. Boyer, Ph.D. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love to color abstract designs; if you love to color Gray Scale Photos; if you love to draw or color shading and patterns but are uncomfortable with drawing the base images, this book is for you! This book is full of 38 photographs that will keep you busy for weeks or months! These images were photographed in March and April of 2016 by the author/artist/photographer. Details about the book:** Non-perforated pages (you can use an craft knife or razor to remove them)** Glue-bound spine ** Pages are 8.5" x 11" with a quarter-inch margin** Two pages of pre-views of drawings in the book should be available on Amazon's "Look Between the Covers" function to see the types of illustrations in the book** Single-Pages - all the Gray-Scale Photos have blank pages on the back side so you don't have to worry about your 'wetter' media ruining any images on the other side** Paper weight is the thickness of standard paper-back books; some media may bleed through (test first, back with cardboard or plastic!) What can you do with the book once you have finished? Once the photos in this book are colored - give the books as gifts, use pages as scrapbook background art, create greeting cards, or use the designs and use in multi-media art. Whether the co-artist uses crayon, marker, or colored pencil, or paints - or a combination - the beautiful results can be used to pass the time, keep your mind still, go into a personal Zen moment, use your hands in a creative way, or use for a craft project. Frame them and hang them in the office, classroom, or at home where the designs can continue to inspire friends, family, and co-workers. Once the designs are colored - give the books as gifts, as scrapbook background art, or cut out designs for multi-media art. The possibilities are endless! Coloring can be cathartic for those needing something that doesn't take a lot of analysis or thought, while allowing them to pick and chose their personal colors to create an artistic masterpiece. The pages of delightful and imaginative illustrations of fairy abodes allows you to relax while you wile away the hours or the day and find peace in your own mind. KEY SEARCH TERMS FOR DAWN BOYER'S BOOKS ON AMAZON: Adult Coloring Book, Architectural Illustrations, Artist's renderings, artwork, balance, Barns, Big Kids Coloring Book, bugs, butterflies, calming, celebration, channel, circle, co-artist, City of Williamsburg Virginia, color, colonial, Coloring Book, colors, colour, colouring, colouring book, colours, composition, concentration, consciousness, contemplate, cosmos, crab, creation, [email protected], de-stress, designs, dolphin, doodle, doodles, Drawing, drawings, emotions, heart, hearts, fae, fairies, fairy, fairy doors, fairy houses, fauna, feathers, feathers a'flying, feathers aflying, fish, flora, forest, Forgotten Places, forms, hidden animals, hearts, Hearts A'Fire, hidden shapes, Illustration, imagination, jellyfish, joy, Kaleidoscope, life, lionfish, lived, lobster, love, loving, magical, mandala, mermaids, mother earth, mystical, mystical creatures, nature, ocean, Old Barns, Old Houses, pattern, peace, pen and ink, powers, psyche, psychological, psychology, psychotherapy, re-balancing, reflecting, relax, relaxation, revolutionary city, sand painting, sea, self, self-hypnosis, self-remembering, shading, shark, shipwreck, space, spirits, spiritual, state-of-being, strengths, sub-conscious, sugar skulls, symbolic, tangles, tantalizing, therapy, thought, transcendental, tropical, undersea, universe, valentine, valentines, wakefulness, well-being, Virginia historic district, Williamsburg Virginia Geographic Area, wisdom, Zen, Zendala, Zentangles

Restored District Williamsburg Va Geographic Area Gray Scale Photos to Color

Author : Dawn D. Boyer, Ph.D.
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540862372
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Restored District Williamsburg Va Geographic Area Gray Scale Photos to Color written by Dawn D. Boyer, Ph.D. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love to color colonial architecture from the nation's revolutionary city capital in the Williamsburg Virginia Geographic Area and the Historic Restoration district, this book is a definite 'must buy!' If you love to color the holiday decorations, you can't wait to purchase this book! Historically, the colonists did not decorate for the holidays as Americans do today. But, in keeping with the guidelines of the local building codes of the area, residents can decorate for the holidays, but are only allowed to use natural materials that could be found or were present at the time of the early revolutionary era. The amazing wreath designs are stunning in their simplicity and variety of beautiful materials. This coloring book also has a companion resource book available via the author's Etsy store where buyers can view the original full-color photographs to resource the colors and more details to the materials in each wreath (etsy.com/people/DawnDBoyer) The book is filled with 50+ Gray Scaled Photographs of the 2016 Holiday Wreathes and D�cor you will find if you visit the area. This is one of four volumes of Gray Scale photos that concentrate on Holiday Wreathes and D�cor. There are at least two creative ways you can use the illustrations in this book and the other three volumes: As a Coloring Book - pull the pages out, get out your crayons and colored pencils, and 'go to town' in adding your interpretation of what materials the colonists used if they were inclined to decorate their windows and doors during the holiday season. As a Scavenger Game - look through the book and see if you can identify the location of all the illustrations throughout the book. Mark the location page with the longitude and latitude coordinates. Buy more books for your friends and family and see who can identify all the locations of the structures in the book first! Details about the book: ** Non-perforated pages (you can use an craft knife or razor to remove them) ** Glue-bound spine ** Pages are 8.5" x 11" with an approximate 1/2 inch margin around the photographs; paper weight is the thickness of standard paper-back books; some wetter media may bleed through the paper (test first, back with cardboard or plastic!) ** Two pages of pre-views of drawings in the book should be available on Amazon's "Look Between the Covers" function to see the types of illustrations in the book, as well as on the front and back covers** Single-Pages - all the illustrations have blank pages on the back side so you don't have to worry about your 'wetter' media ruining any images on the other side KEY SEARCH TERMS FOR DAWN BOYER'S BOOKS ON AMAZON: Adult Coloring Book, Architectural Illustrations, Artist's renderings, artwork, Barns, Big Kids Coloring Book, bugs, butterflies, co-artist, City of Williamsburg Virginia, color, colonial, Coloring Book, colors, colour, colouring, colouring book, colours, [email protected], de-stress, designs, dolphin, doodle, doodles, Drawing, drawings, hearts, fae, fairies, fairy, fairy doors, fairy houses, fauna, feathers, Feathers A'Flying, fish, flora, forest, hidden animals, hearts, Hearts A'Fire, Illustration, imagination, Kaleidoscope, magical, mandala, mermaids, Old Barns, Old Houses, pattern, pen and ink, restored buildings, revolutionary city, sea, shading, shipwreck, sugar skulls, tangles, tantalizing, tropical, undersea, valentine, Virginia historic district, Williamsburg Virginia Geographic Area, wreathes, holiday d�cor

The Historical Archaeology of Virginia from Initial Settlement to the Present

Author : Clarence R. Geier
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781541023482
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (234 download)

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Book Synopsis The Historical Archaeology of Virginia from Initial Settlement to the Present by : Clarence R. Geier

Download or read book The Historical Archaeology of Virginia from Initial Settlement to the Present written by Clarence R. Geier and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book includes six chapters that cover Virginia history from initial settlement through the 20th century plus one that deals with the important role of underwater archaeology. Written by prominent archaeologists with research experience in their respective topic areas, the chapters consider important issues of Virginia history and consider how the discipline of historic archaeology has addressed them and needs to address them . Changes in research strategy over time are discussed , and recommendations are made concerning the need to recognize the diverse and often differing roles and impacts that characterized the different regions of Virginia over the course of its historic past. Significant issues in Virginia history needing greater study are identified.

Capital Drawings

Author : Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801872324
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Capital Drawings written by Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-12-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegant volume, a guide to the Library of Congress's massive collection of architectural drawings, offers a celebration of the ambitious project of designing the nation's capital. Each of its "capital drawings" reflects some aspect of the lives, history, and values of the building's creators and sponsors. 55 color illustrations. 123 halftones.

Restored District Williamsburg Va Geographic Area Gray Scale Photos to Color

Author : Dawn D. Boyer, Ph.D.
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781541101067
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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The Virginia Landmarks Register

Author : Calder Loth
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813918626
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Virginia Landmarks Register written by Calder Loth and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Virginia Landmarks Register, fourth edition, will create for the reader a deeper awareness of a unique legacy and will serve to enhance the stewardship of Virginia's irreplaceable heritage.

The Architecture of Country Houses

Author : Andrew Jackson Downing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Country Houses written by Andrew Jackson Downing and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days

Author : Barbara Brenner
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545694418
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (456 download)

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Book Synopsis If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days by : Barbara Brenner

Download or read book If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days written by Barbara Brenner and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A different time... A different place... What if you were there? More than 200 years ago, two thousand people lived in the town of Williamsburg, Virginia. If you lived back then... What would your house look like? What games and sports would you play? Would you go to school? What happened when you were sick or hurt? This book tells you what it was like to grow up in colonial days, before there was a United States of America.

The Changing of the Avant-garde

Author : Terence Riley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870700040
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing of the Avant-garde written by Terence Riley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 165 expertly reproduced visionary architectural drawings from The Museum of Modern Art's Howard Gilman Archive, this collection brings together a selection of idealized, fantastic and utopian architectural drawings.

Lost Virginia

Author : Bryan Clark Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lost Virginia written by Bryan Clark Green and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literally hundreds of Virginia buildings of architectural or historical interest have vanished. Most were demolished or burned, while others were abandoned as populations and needs shifted. The consequence is that important models of architectural accomplishment and key symbols of human aspiration and achievement have disappeared and are largely forgotten. Lost Virginia is an effort to document and reconstruct the appearance of Virginia architecture in earlier times, when the nation's destiny and history were intimately tied to the Old Dominion's landscape and buildings. It seeks to recover, at least on paper, an impression of our lost architectural heritage. Organized into categories of domestic, civic, religious, and commercial buildings, the more than three hundred vanished structures illustrated within include slave pens in Alexandria, George Washington's singular sixteen-sided barn, a one-room schoolhouse in Greene County, and the 18th-century Valley homes--long mistaken for forts--of German-speaking settlers. Soldiers in both blue and gray tramped by the now-lost Rockingham County courthouse, and a cathedral-like federal post office in Roanoke joins Rockbridge County's fantastic Alleghany Hotel on the list of exceptional but short-lived buildings. Also documented are creations like Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Company Pavilion, destroyed just months after it had been erected for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exhibition, and the Thomas Jefferson-designed Barboursville in Orange County. --jacket.

Incidents of My Life

Author : Edmund Ruffin
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813912790
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Incidents of My Life written by Edmund Ruffin and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Ruffin (794-1865) is remembered as an innovative American agriculturalist and pioneer in soil chemistry- and as an advocate of Southern secession. Here, published for the first time, are the two surviving volumes of Ruffin's manuscript memoirs, written in 1851 with additions in 1853 and 1855. Unlike Ruffin's diaries begun four years later, Incidents of My Life presents the public man, the Ruffin he wanted outsiders and posteriy to see. The volumes recount his career as a scientific farmer, his writing of An Essay on Calcareous Manures, his editing of the Farmers' Register, and the beginnings of his involvement in reform movements in the 1850s. His recollections were intended as a moral record for his heirs, focusing on himself as a good example. Also included are Ruffin's memoirs of his two daughters who died in 1855 and, as an appendix, his account of the death of his mentor, Thomas Cocke, which are useful sources for mid-nineteenth-century social history.

Big Kids Coloring Book

Author : Dawn D. Boyer, Ph.D.
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540397362
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Big Kids Coloring Book written by Dawn D. Boyer, Ph.D. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love to color colonial architecture from the nation's revolutionary city capital in the Williamsburg Virginia Geographic Area and the Historic Restoration district, this book is definitely a must buy! The book is filled with 30+ Gray Scaled Photographs of some of the historic and restored buildings, as well as alleys and back gardens you will find if you visit the area. This is one of four volumes of Gray Scale photos that concentrate on Window, Gates, and Doors. There are at least two creative ways you can use the illustrations in this book and the other three volumes: As a Coloring Book - pull the pages out, get out your crayons and colored pencils, and 'go to town' in adding your interpretation of what colors the colonists used when they followed the founding fathers and the news from England as they lived through the revolutionary war. As a Scavenger Game - look through the book and see if you can identify the location of all the illustrations throughout the book. Mark the location page with the longitude and latitude coordinates. Buy more books for your friends and family and see who can identify all the locations of the structures in the book first! Details about the book: ** Non-perforated pages (you can use an craft knife or razor to remove them) ** Glue-bound spine ** Pages are 8.5" x 11" with an approximate 1/2 inch margin around the photographs; paper weight is the thickness of standard paper-back books; some wetter media may bleed through the paper (test first, back with cardboard or plastic!) ** Two pages of pre-views of drawings in the book should be available on Amazon's "Look Between the Covers" function to see the types of illustrations in the book, as well as on the front and back covers** Single-Pages - all the illustrations have blank pages on the back side so you don't have to worry about your 'wetter' media ruining any images on the other side KEY SEARCH TERMS FOR DAWN BOYER'S BOOKS ON AMAZON: Adult Coloring Book, Architectural Illustrations, Artist's renderings, artwork, Barns, Big Kids Coloring Book, bugs, butterflies, co-artist, City of Williamsburg Virginia, color, colonial, Coloring Book, colors, colour, colouring, colouring book, colours, [email protected], de-stress, designs, dolphin, doodle, doodles, Drawing, drawings, hearts, fae, fairies, fairy, fairy doors, fairy houses, fauna, feathers, Feathers A'Flying, fish, flora, forest, hidden animals, hearts, Hearts A'Fire, Illustration, imagination, Kaleidoscope, magical, mandala, mermaids, Old Barns, Old Houses, pattern, pen and ink, restored buildings, revolutionary city, sea, shading, shipwreck, sugar skulls, tangles, tantalizing, tropical, undersea, valentine, Virginia historic district, Williamsburg Virginia Geographic Area

Charter of the New Urbanism

Author : Congress for the New Urbanism
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Charter of the New Urbanism written by Congress for the New Urbanism and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An agenda for thriving urban centers, the San Francisco-based Congress for the New Urbanism is a leading force for modern design that encourages viable neighborhoods, conserves natural environments, and preserves our architectural heritage. Charter of the New Urbanism introduces you to the work of the world-class planners, architects and other professionals who are making the new urbanism happen. Charter contributors, including Andres Duany, Peter Calthorpe, and Liz Moule, explain strategies that range from large-scale, regional, to small-scale: blocks, streets and buildings. Revealing case studies help you understand the impact of geography, economics,development and urban patterns, public and private uses, transportation and pedestrian access, housing, building densities and land uses, codes, parks, shared use, safety, preservation and renewal, community identity and much more in this invaluable resource for design professionals.

Working-class Dwellings

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working-class Dwellings written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Big Kids Coloring Book

Author : Dawn D. Boyer, Ph.D.
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540394712
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Big Kids Coloring Book written by Dawn D. Boyer, Ph.D. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love to color colonial architecture from the nation's revolutionary city capital in the Williamsburg Virginia Geographic Area and the Historic Restoration district, this book is definitely a must buy! The book is filled with 30+ Gray Scaled Photographs of some of the historic and restored buildings, as well as alleys and back gardens you will find if you visit the area. This is one of four volumes of Gray Scale photos that concentrate on Window, Gates, and Doors. There are at least two creative ways you can use the illustrations in this book and the other three volumes: As a Coloring Book - pull the pages out, get out your crayons and colored pencils, and 'go to town' in adding your interpretation of what colors the colonists used when they followed the founding fathers and the news from England as they lived through the revolutionary war. As a Scavenger Game - look through the book and see if you can identify the location of all the illustrations throughout the book. Mark the location page with the longitude and latitude coordinates. Buy more books for your friends and family and see who can identify all the locations of the structures in the book first! Details about the book: ** Non-perforated pages (you can use an craft knife or razor to remove them) ** Glue-bound spine ** Pages are 8.5" x 11" with an approximate 1/2 inch margin around the photographs; paper weight is the thickness of standard paper-back books; some wetter media may bleed through the paper (test first, back with cardboard or plastic!) ** Two pages of pre-views of drawings in the book should be available on Amazon's "Look Between the Covers" function to see the types of illustrations in the book, as well as on the front and back covers** Single-Pages - all the illustrations have blank pages on the back side so you don't have to worry about your 'wetter' media ruining any images on the other side KEY SEARCH TERMS FOR DAWN BOYER'S BOOKS ON AMAZON: Adult Coloring Book, Architectural Illustrations, Artist's renderings, artwork, Barns, Big Kids Coloring Book, bugs, butterflies, co-artist, City of Williamsburg Virginia, color, colonial, Coloring Book, colors, colour, colouring, colouring book, colours, [email protected], de-stress, designs, dolphin, doodle, doodles, Drawing, drawings, hearts, fae, fairies, fairy, fairy doors, fairy houses, fauna, feathers, Feathers A'Flying, fish, flora, forest, hidden animals, hearts, Hearts A'Fire, Illustration, imagination, Kaleidoscope, magical, mandala, mermaids, Old Barns, Old Houses, pattern, peace, pen and ink, restored buildings, revolutionary city, sea, shading, shark, shipwreck, sugar skulls, symbolic, tangles, tantalizing, tropical, undersea, valentine, valentines, Virginia historic district, Williamsburg Virginia Geographic Area

The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties

Author : Kay D. Weeks
Publisher : National Park Service Division of Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties written by Kay D. Weeks and published by National Park Service Division of Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides guidance to historic building owners and building managers, preservation consultants, architects, contractors, and project reviewers prior to treatment of historic buildings.

The Chesapeake House

Author : Cary Carson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 080783811X
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Chesapeake House written by Cary Carson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 American architecture. The essays describe how building design, hardware, wall coverings, furniture, and even paint colors telegraphed social signals about the status of builders and owners and choreographed social interactions among everyone who lived or worked in gentry houses, modest farmsteads, and slave quarters. The analyses of materials, finishes, and carpentry work will fascinate old-house buffs, preservationists, and historians alike. The lavish color photography is a delight to behold, and the detailed catalogues of architectural elements provide a reliable guide to the form, style, and chronology of the region's distinctive historic architecture.