Table of Contents: Meetinghouses of early New England

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Benes, Peter.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2012]
Subjects and Genres:	Public buildings > New England > History. Wooden churches > New England > History. Vernacular architecture > New England > History. New England > Church history.
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Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.
Appendix A: Tables
Appendix B: Chronological checklist of meetinghouses in New England and Long Island, 1622-1830
Appendix C: Pinnacles, pyramids, and spires, 1651-1709
Appendix D: Enlargements of meetinghouses in New England by cutting the frame, 1723-1824
Appendix E: Citations of exterior painting, 1678-1828
Appendix F: Citations of interior painting, 1656-1817
Appendix G: Meetinghouse replications in New England, 1647-1828.