Sea Captains' Houses and Rose-Covered Cottages: The Architectural Heritage of Nantucket Island - Hardcover

Booker, Margaret Moore; Gonnella, Rose; Butler, Patricia Egan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789308800 ISBN 13: 9780789308801

Publisher: Universe, 2003

Synopsis

Nantucket Island is home to one of the largest and most important collections of historic buildings in the United States. More than 800 preserved structures represent the character and charm of the island and its people.

In the tradition of Universe's successful Cottages by the Sea, this book beautifully represents the historic legacy in great depth and captures the fantasy of owning a home on Nantucket Island. Written by Nantucket's foremost architectural historians, the book draws upon primary sources, diaries, oral histories, and archived photographs to examine the rich architectural heritage of this designated national treasure. With striking new photography, delicate line illustrations of architectural details, and engaging stories, Sea Captains' Houses is a definitive study of the homes that have come to characterize this charming and culturally rich island, making this book required reading for every proud Nantucket homowner and a much wider audience of visitors who flock to the island each summer.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Moore Booker is the associate director and curator of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies on Nantucket.

Rose Gonnella is an author and artist whose books include The Simple Art of Scrapbooking and Creative Jolt.

Patricia Egan Butler is the executive director of the Nantucket Preservation Trust on Nantucket. She has been an advisor to the Nantucket Historical Association since 1987.

About this edition

• Publisher: Universe
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0789308800
• ISBN 13: 9780789308801
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224