The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725

Abbott Lowell Cummings

  • Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award of the Society of Architectural Historians
  • Winner of the Laurence L. Winship Book Award of the Boston Globe
In a rich blend of architectural and social history, Abbott Lowell Cummings reconstructs some of our nation's first houses. This is a splendid story of innovations, of restless, migratory people and their architectural and social responses to their environment. It is the first chapter in the long saga of America's preoccupation with technology, showing how it affected the early American home.
  • Cover: The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725

Abbott Lowell Cummings was Executive Director of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities and a member of the faculty at Antioch College, Boston University, and Yale University.