| One of the most splendid repositories of American institutional architecture is found in New England's public meeting halls and churches, and in the industrial mills and factories of the nineteenth century. The book also celebrates New England's rich tradition of domestic architecture, seaside homes clad in weathered gray shingles, white clapboard houses surrounding village greens, and exuberant Victorian gingerbread homes. New England is justly famous for its succession of intensely realized seasons: its deep and snowy winter, its spring, which bursts forth in a cascade of melting snow and budding vegetation, its leafy languid summer days, and perhaps most famously, its autumn, when the landscape seems to be on fire with the vivid reds, oranges and yellows of the foliage.
Here, in countless public squares and cemeteries are monuments to the battles of the Revolution, and memorials to the heirs of the revolutionaries who themselves marched off to preserve the Union during the Civil War. |
