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THE ARCHITECTURE OF
COLONIAL AMERICA

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THE ARCHITECTURE OF
COLONIAL AMERICA

BY

HAROLD DONALDSON EBERLEIN

ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
By MARY H. NORTHEND
AND OTHERS





BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1915
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Copyright, 1915,
By Little, Brown, and Company
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All rights reserved

Published, October, 1915

Norwood Press
Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

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FOREWORD

IT is the purpose of this volume to set forth a brief history and ananalysis of the architecture of Colonial America, in such wise that theymay be of interest and value both to the general reader and to thearchitect.

The subject will be treated with reference to the close connexionexisting between architecture and the social and economic circumstancesof the period, so that some additional light may fall upon the dailyconditions of life among our forefathers. At the same time, there willbe a careful critical analysis of the origin and development of theseveral seventeenth and eighteenth century styles that have left us sowealthy an architectural heritage, an heritage based upon a groundworkof traditions brought across the Atlantic by the early craftsmen andartisans.

Such an analysis, it is hoped, will materially contribute to a broaderappreciation of our possessions and will not be without value in theinterpretation of modern buildings in which the traditions of the pasthave been perpetuated.{vi} Perhaps it is not too much to hope that a moreexact knowledge of early achievements may even supply a measure ofinspiration and guidance to those who purpose building homes forthemselves.

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