Cumberland County: An Architectural Survey
Price: $36.00
Description
Nancy Van Dolsen, Cumberland County Historical Society 1990
ISBN 418740006859 $36.00 342 pages Spiral Bound
Cumberland County: An Architectural Survey presents a tour of significant architecture in each municipality in the county. You will see and read about late eighteenth-century stone farm houses, elegant Federal-era town houses, ornate Victorian mansions, brick-end barns, log grist mills and much, much more.
The result of a four-year architectural survey sponsored by the Cumberland County Historical Society and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, this book presents in lay terms a thematic history of the pre-1940 architecture in Cumberland County. It feature more than 200 illustrations, including contemporary black and white photographs, historic photographs and floor plans, of some of the county’s most significant historic buildings and structures.
In the opening three chapters you will encounter a concise history of the county’s architecture. You will learn about the historic and economic context for the development of architectural styles and forms. The next 30 chapters focus on the county’s boroughs and townships. Each chapter follows a theme concentrating on a building type or time period that is revealed through that area’s historic architecture. You will see iron furnaces in Cooke Township, twentieth-century residences in Camp Hill, federal-era buildings in Carlisle, mills of Hampden Township, and log buildings in Newville. Ornate Victorian mansions are featured in the Mechanicsburg chapter, and late nineteenth-century commercial buildings are the focus of the Shippensburg chapter.
Cumberland County: An Architectural Survey sets the standard for books on historic architecture in Pennsylvania.
Table of contents:
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 1750-1825 “The Inhabitants are generally Irish, and a few Germans”
Chapter 2: 1825-1900 “Move Toward a Better Life”
Chapter 3 1900-1940 “Where town joins country… between city and fam lands”
Municipalities
Camp Hill, Twentieth-century residential architecture
Carlisle, The Federal era
Cooke Township, Iron furnaces
Dickinson Township, Frame bank barns
East Pennsboro Township, Railroads
Frankford Townships: Lower & Upper, Long barns
Hampden Township, Mills
Hopewell Township, Covered bridges
Lemoyne, Twentieth-century apartment buildings
Lower Allen Township, Eighteenth-century stone houses
Mechanicsburg, The Victorian era
Middlesex Township, An eighteenth-century brick house
Mifflin Townships: Lower & Upper, Log buildings
Monroe Township, Brick-end barns
Mount Holly Springs, Industrial and architecture, the yellow brick of Mount Holly
Newburg, Brick-cased log houses
New Cumberland, Twentieth-century commercial buildings
Newton Townships North & South, Public school buildings
Newville, Log houses, 1790-1820
North Middleton Township, An eighteenth-century stone house and cemetery
Penn Township, Rural villages
Shippensburg Borough & Township, Late nineteenth-century commercial buildings
Shiremanstown, Mid-nineteenth century vernacular buildings
Silver Spring Township, Federal fam houses with attached kitchens
Southampton Township, Mid-nineteenth century farm houses
South Middleton Township, Nineteenth-century tenant houses
Upper Allen Township, Rural houses and the transformation of the landscape, 1840-1890
West Fairview, Artisan’s and worker’s houses
West Pennsboro Township, Stone bank barns
Wormleysburg, The Pennsylvania farmhouse style
Bibliography
Glossary
Appendix
Index
