Research Catalog

Title

Shaker architecture : descriptions with photographs and drawings of Shaker buildings at Mount Lebanon, New York, Watervliet, New York, West Pittsfield, Massachusetts / William Lawrence Lassiter ; illustrated by Constantine Kermes.

Author

Lassiter, William Lawrence.

Publication

• New York : Bonanza Books, [1966]
• ©1966

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Details

Description

127 pages : illustrations, plans; 26 cm

Summary

After a brief history of the Shakers, drawings and photographs of the buildings and artifacts subordinate to theirreligious beliefs and established laws are shown and briefly discussed. The architectural designs--which are distinctive--established a style, or a folk art in America.

Subject

• Shaker architecture
• Architecture > New York (State)
• Architecture > Designs and plans
• Architecture shaker
• Architecture > New York (État)
• Architecture > Dessins et plans
• Architecture
• New York (State)

Genre/Form

• Designs and plans.
• architectural drawings (visual works)
• Architectural drawings.
• Dessins d'architecture.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 127.

Contents

Foreword / by Margaret Fellows Melcher -- Introduction -- Stone barn, North family -- Dwelling house, North family -- Laundry building, North family -- Lumber and grist mill, North family -- Brethren's red brick shop, North family -- Meeting house, Church family -- Ministry's dwelling house, Church family -- Blacksmith's shop, Church family -- Shaker school, Church family -- Sisters' workshop, South family -- Main dwelling house, West family -- "Round barn" Hancock Shakers.

OCLC

• ocm00961323
• 961323
• SCSB-9413501

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library