GUSN-286898
vi, 446 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Public buildings History.
Wooden churches History.
Vernacular architecture History.
Church history.
Benes, Peter.
pt. I. THE BACKGROUND -- 1. The Meetinghouse and the Community -- 2. The Meetinghouse and the Church -- 3. The Builders -- 4. Seating the Congregation -- pt. II. THE ARCHITECTURE -- 5. Meetinghouses of the Seventeenth-Century -- 6. Meetinghouses of the Eighteenth-Century -- 7. Meetinghouses of the Early Nineteenth-Century -- pt. III. CONCLUSIONS -- 8. Some Theoretical Models -- 9. Meetinghouse Architecture as Puritan Ecclesiology -- 10. A Fleeting Image.
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
vi, 446 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-428) and index.
9781558499102 (cloth : alk. paper)
1558499105 (cloth : alk. paper)
Book Prize NA4210.B46 2012 c.1
Stacks NA4210.B46 2012 c.2
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