When this memoirist, his girlfriend, and her son move into a New Hampshire farm that needs love and care, fixing it up becomes an art form.

A generously illustrated handbook for identifying and understanding structures that symbolize the region's unique cultural and historical landscape

The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.

Why would one man work to save buildings that have outlived their practical function in our society? Old Barns in the New World answers that question as it chronicles the life and work of Richard Babcock, America's leading barn restorer and historian.

Over 340 color photos display barns in the English and New England styles that dot the landscape of Cape Cod's fifteen townships, including many detail shots. Wooden and stone barns dating from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries appear, including barns for sheltering animals, grain, cranberries, strawberries, turnips, and asparagus.