"Read the stories behind the scenery: Short, rich, uncommonly engaging histories and descriptions of New England's most notable and recognizable features are accompanied by pitch-perfect photos by one of the region's best architectural photographers."--P. [4] of jacket.

“New England is the American backdrop: everybody’s hometown, the nation’s Christmas card,” writes Jane Holtz Kay in the prologue to this landmark book. If New England is the image of America, it is also a region in flux. Today, and every decade since its settlement, the landscape of New England is the locus of change, development – and turmoil. Preserving New England explores both the stereotypes of New England and the reality behind its...

Each chapter lists the museum's location, web address, and telephone number and provides a description of the historical occupants as well as an in-depth look at the house's place in national and architectural history.

The first study of the origins and multiple expressions of New England's Arts and Crafts architecture.

The story of early New England can be told in words; but more elequent than words are those surviving historians, its old houses. Inextricably tied up with houses which still grace the countryside are stirring and intimate reminders of the early history of this country. Furthermore, they furnish a fascinating chapter in architectural history. Finally, many of them have been recused and restored, and their doors thrown hospitably open to the public....