Antique Houses of Gloucester:: The Families Who Built Them, the Mayor Who Moved Them and the Changing Face of the Harbor Village

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In Antique Houses of Gloucester, writer Prudence Fish delivers a masterful survey of Gloucester’s most compelling, puzzling and captivating old homes–even as concurrently providing an entertaining primer on New England’s colonial and nineteenth-century architecture.
Stumped by the differences between Georgian and Federal ornamentation? Wondering tips on how to identify an authentic “Cape Ann cottage”? Intrigued by Indian shutters, widow’s walks, Tory chimneys and other such exotically named decorative motifs? Fish unravels these mysteries and more. With a “Fact and Fiction” section debunking quite a lot of myths and misconceptions, a comprehensive word list of terms or even an excursion into the state-of-the-art field of dendrochronology, Antique Houses of Gloucester offers the whole thing the reader needs to develop into an armchair expert on Gloucester’s historic residences and New England’s classic building styles.

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