Book Description
"North Shore Boston" explores more than fifty great houses, documented with historic photographs, floor plans and extensive biographies of their owners and architects. Nationally-known designers McKim, Mead & White, the Olmsted Brothers, Peabody & Stearns, Carrere & Hastings, Ogden Codman and David Adler join Bostonians Little & Browne, Wheelwright & Haven, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge and Guy Lowell, in a grand procession of expansive shingled summer cottages, rambling Tudor manors, stately Georgian mansions and colorful Italian villas set amid some of the most breathtaking landscape architecture in the nation.
Publisher comments
The Acanthus Press series on Urban and Suburban Domestic Architecture present distinguished American domestic buildings of the last two centuries. The history of these houses and apartments is the history of eminent clients and their architects as they addressed the varied needs of American domestic life.
