The Homes of Our Forefathers...
Whitefield, Edwin. THE HOMES OF OUR FOREFATHERS. (title page) THE HOMES OF OUR FOREFATHERS. BEING A SELECTION OF THE OLDEST AND MOST INTERESTING BUILDINGS, HISTORICAL HOUSES, AND NOTED PLACES IN RHODE ISLAND AND CONNECTICUT. From Original Drawin Made On the Spot. by Edwin Whitefield. Whitefield and Crocker. Boston. 1st 1882. 31 single sided pages. 72 chromolithgraphic plates. "The object of this book is to preserve and hand down to all future generations representations of the Homes of their Fathers." Edwin Whitefield created a series of architectural books, The Homes of Our Fathers, which showed 18th century, and earlier, homes in Massachusetts and other areas in New England. "From a variety of causes they are rapidly disappearing; and before long the places that now know them will know them no more." This title was the second in the series. Front hinge starting, overall in vg cond.