Carolina Cottage: A Personal History of the Piazza House - Hardcover

Little, Margaret Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081393009X ISBN 13: 9780813930091

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 2010

Synopsis

Rare Book

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Review:

In an engaging blend of the architectural and the personal, Ruth Little opens the door to a long underappreciated regional house form. Her 'Carolina cottage' is a modest and graceful dwelling grounded in a tradition of comfort and hospitality, in which the deep, broad porch is integral structurally as well as socially. Drawing upon her experiences of rescuing and living in such a house, as well as tracing the type across time and landscape, she invites us to see the richness of a seemingly simple building form. This is a very good book to read on a porch, if you can find one.

--Catherine Bishir, Senior Architectural Historian for Preservation North Carolina, author of Southern Built: American Architecture, Regional Practice

Anyone looking for an entertaining trip into the past will want to read Ruth Little's book. Anyone wishing to get a solid grasp of the authentic historic context of Carolina cottage design features--gabled versus hipped roofs, floor plans, rain porches, stranger (aka, preacher) rooms, and even color preferences (light blue to keep away flies)--will want to study this book.

--Inform Magazine

About the Author:

Margaret Ruth Little operates Longleaf Historic Resources, an architectural history consulting firm, in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, North Carolina: 1795-1975; Sticks and Stones: Three Centuries of North Carolina Gravemarkers; and Coastal Plain and Fancy: The Historic Architecture of Lenoir County and Kinston, North Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 081393009X
• ISBN 13: 9780813930091
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128