[Rarebooks] FS: American Stone Houses in Bucks County Pennsylvania & Brandywine Valley

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

“Stone Houses. Traditional Homes of Pennsylvania’s Bucks County and 
Brandywine Valley”

By Margaret Bye Richie, John D. Milner & Gregory D. Huber.
Published in New York by Rizzoli in 2005.

“Stone Houses: Traditional Homes of Pennsylvania’s Bucks County and 
Brandywine Valley is a unique presentation of beloved building 
traditions in one of the most charming and historically significant 
regions in the nation. Houses, barns, and outbuildings dating from the 
colonial and Federal periods, built with local stone predominantly in an 
English Cotswold vernacular style, represent a form that has become 
popular across the nation. Geoffrey Gross’s stunning photographs 
document a remarkable collection of early buildings, including the John 
Chad House (circa 1720), Peter Wentz Farmstead (circa 1758), and 
Buckingham Friends Meeting House (1768), as well as more recent designs, 
in part inspired by such traditional homes, by architects R. Brognard 
Okie, G. Edwin Brumbaugh, and John D. Milner. Part of the original 
Pennsylvania Colony founded in March of 1681 by William Penn, the region 
encompassing Bucks County and the Brandywine Valley is important not 
only for its history as an early English settlement in the New World, 
but also for its role as a crucial site in the struggle for American 
independence. The evidence for this is obvious in the story of its 
houses. Some notable examples include the Thompson-Neely House at 
Washington Crossing, in which, it is said, Washington’s officers were 
billeted during the famous night of his crossing of the Delaware, and 
Pennsbury Manor, the reconstructed home of William Penn. With its 
authoritative text and exquisite full-color photography, Stone Houses is 
a beautiful record of a historically rich regional building tradition”.

Hardcover. 8.5”x11”, 224 pages, color illustrations, dust jacket. Minor 
wear, but otherwise clean and nice, with a tight binding. $85

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