WHO LIVED HERE? A BAKER'S DOZEN OF HISTORIC NEW ENGLAND HOUSES AND THEIR OCCUPANTS by HOWE, M.A. DEWOLFE; SAMUEL CHAMBERLAIN, PHOTOGRAPHY

Format: Cloth
Book condition: Tan cloth, photo illustration, brown lettering. DW not price clipped, white photo illustrated green spine. Mild chipping with va

Boston:: Little, Brown, and Company,, 1952. First edition. Cloth. Tan cloth, photo illustration, brown lettering. DW not price clipped, white photo illustrated green spine. Mild chipping with various short (1/4 to 1/2 inch) closed tears. Clean, tightly bound. First Edition, stated. 139 pp, sm 4 to. In protective mylar jacket. A tribute to thirteen New England historic homes and the people who lived in them. Some are magnificent architectural showpieces, like Gore Place in Waltham Ma., and the John Brown (Merchant) House in Providence, R.I.. Mark A DeWolfe Howe, biographer and American Historian shows a book of deep appreciation for the people who occupied each house and created its special atmospher and character; accompanied by 50 illustrations of the houses and interiors, along with the frontispiece, Emily Dickinson House, Doorway. Chapters include: Adamses at Quincy; Lousia May Alcott; Bishop Berkeley at Whitehall; Anne Bradstreet: Tenth Muse; John Brown of Providence; Emily Dickinson; Christopher Gore of Gore Place; Hawthorne, Emerson, and the Old Manse; Sarah Orne Jewett, of the Pointed Firs Country; Longfellow and the Craigie House; Lowell's Elmwood; Maria Mitchell: Sky-Sweeper; The Lifetime Ride of Paul Revere Old Occupants. M.A. DeWolfe Howe New England Houses, Samuel Champerlain Historic Homes