{"product_id":"chesapeake-house-architectural-investigation-williamsburg","title":"The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg","description":"For more than thirty years the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings landscapes and social history in the Chesapeake region. Its painstaking work has transformed our understanding of building practices in the colonial and early national periods and thereby greatly enriched the experience of visiting historic sites. In this beautifully illustrated volume a team of historians curators and conservators draw on their far-reaching knowledge of historic structures in Virginia and Maryland to illuminate the formation development and spread of one of the hallmark building traditions in American architecture. \u003cbr the essays describe how building design hardware wall coverings furniture and even paint colors telegraphed social signals about status of builders owners choreographed interactions among everyone who lived or worked in gentry houses modest farmsteads slave quarters. analyses materials finishes carpentry work will fascinate old-house buffs preservationists historians alike. lavish color photography is a delight to behold detailed catalogues architectural elements provide reliable guide form style=\"\" chronology region distinctive historic architecture.\u003e\u003cb\u003eHardcover:\u003c\/b\u003e 488 pages\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e The University of North Carolina Press; New edition edition (March 25 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807835773\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 978-0807835777\u003c\/p\u003e                                                                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e    Product Dimensions:     \u003c\/b\u003e    9.5 x 1.8 x 12.2 inches    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShipping Weight:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.2 pounds \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Architecture","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":30800613081176,"sku":"807835773","price":104.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0266\/6217\/4808\/products\/51NVvyQzUKL.jpg?v=1570952678","url":"https:\/\/socialskills21.myshopify.com\/products\/chesapeake-house-architectural-investigation-williamsburg","provider":"socialskills21","version":"1.0","type":"link"}