“‘Old New England houses’ has about one hundred sumptuously printed views, mostly of the type of plain, unpretentious small country houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which we roughly classify as ‘colonial,’ though quite a few of the more pretentious mansion type of house, such as were built by the wealthier merchants and shipmasters in the larger coast towns, are included. The subjects are selected from an artistic rather than an architectural or antiquarian viewpoint. The first few pages are given to an untechnical talk on the varied types and styles of houses and where one may hunt for them with reasonable chance of success, but the greater part of the book is devoted to the pictures of the houses themselves, an entire page being usually given to each print.”—Boston Transcript
+ Boston Transcript p4 S 29 ’20 280w
“The text of this book is slight, not wholly unsuggestive perhaps, but disappointing. The illustrations, however, are of positive interest.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p14 O 23 ’20 520w
Reviewed by W. B. Chase
+ N Y Times p2 S 12 ’20 2450w + Outlook 126:202 S 29 ’20 70w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:314 O 13 ’20 30w
“Like most books of the sort, ‘Old New England houses’ is more to be valued for its pictures than for its text. Here the text, however, is entirely adequate as a brief introduction to upward of a hundred photographs.”