Bibber, Joyce K. (signed by author), - What Do We Call It? A guide to Maine houses.

Univ. S. Maine Portland, ME, Center for Real Estate Ed., (1986). G lg sz PB. Designed & illustrated by Andrea van Voorst van Beest. Preface indicates Bibber has written this book for anyone interested in. our architectural heritage which she says evolved and reference to different periods helps describe different approaches to architecture, as well as how different styles evolved within each time period. Includes 4 page illustrated insert "A Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Maine" by Thomas C. Huntress of Parsonsfield 1817-1901. He spent most of his life on a small farm in the extreme northwest corner of Parsonsfield where it adjoins Freedom, New Hampshire. The 6th of 9 children there is no record of his receiving any formal education during his youth, but it is evident he aspired to acquire talens that might have earned him the appellation "architect". His known commissions in Maine were the unlocated Double House 1846 and the Thomas C. Huntress House Parsonsfield, 1852. Some staining to front pictorial cover.

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