Dutch Colonial Homes in America

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This lavishly-illustrated volume provides an unprecedented have a look at twenty-eight houses (plus eleven barns and other structures) built within the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Dutch colonists within the north-eastern United States, primarily in upstate New York and along the Hudson River Valley, on Long Island and Staten Island, and in New Jersey. An authoritative work– written by eminent experts within the field– Dutch Colonial Homes in America explores the homes of their broader social context by that specialize in the historical and spiritual forces of the times. This book is the first to investigate the meaning of the house and its aesthetics for the Dutch in The united states, and also the first to take a look at these homes as a type of art and craft and, importantly, the influence this form and these people had at the shape of the American house to come. The 200 spectacular new color photographs here are beautifully styled in a manner that recalls the paintings of Vermeer and evoke what might have been the ambiance of these homes hundreds of years ago.
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