Remodeled Farmhouses

Description

Builders, historians and anyone interested in farmhouses can gather an enormous amount of information from the book written by Mary H. Northend on the topic and containing several hundred pages on the topic. From the oldest colonial farmhouses to the designs of homes built shortly before the book was published, Remodeled Farmhouses contains many insights and stories regarding the houses themselves, their builders and the people who inhabited them all those years ago.

Remodeled Farmhouses was written in 1915, and is essentially a detailed description of the process of remodeling a farmhouse. It also contains information on specific farmhouses that the author had access to and inspected as research for the book. From large countryside estates to smaller houses, we are taken on a tour through the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, and we are even shown, through the experienced eyes of Mary H. Northend, several well-built houses belonging to celebrities of the time, including Kate Douglas Winggin, Franklin Brett and Henry W. Wright.

Northend’s aim is not only to present students and builders with her insight on farmhouse architecture and interior design, but also to emphasize the masterful craftsmanship associated with the old master builders responsible for laying the foundation of colonial architecture. She speaks at length about the principles and care that these masters have used in creating their masterpieces, and she places a strong emphasis on the difference between their knowledge and the less durable styles and approaches used in her time.

The book is somewhat like a gentle story told from the perspective of a person who genuinely loves the architecture, the lifestyle and the people associated with these houses. Even as a reader of the 21st century, you will be in store for hours of pleasant reading and countless useful and historically significant pieces of information that you cannot get from anywhere else.
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