The American Farmhouse

The American Farmhouse by Henry J Kauffman. Published by Hawthorn Books Inc, New York, NY, 1975. Book Club Edition. Hardbound, Paper DJ. Size 4to (up to 12'' tall). Condition: Nr Fine in Chipped & Taped DJ. 265 Pgs. Farmhouses and outbuildings that were built during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. The earliest farm structures of this country were those built in Jamestown and Plymouth Colony, and these served as prototypes for later houses made of log, stone, brick, and half-timber. Other early farmhouses were patterned after those found in the countries from which the settlers emigrated. Includes over 200 black and white photos and floor plans and 22 color plates to further clarify the functions of structures that vary from the modest and primitive to sophisticated multi-room dwellings, from deserted Swedish-style log houses in the Delaware Valley and saltbox houses in Connecticut to an early nineteenth-century Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Description text copyright 2014 BooksForComfort. Item ID 29342.