Boathouses: Architecture at the Water's Edge

by E. Ashley Rooney

260 beautiful color photographs capture the beauty and charm of historic and recently designed boathouses at private residences, rowing clubs, preparatory schools, and colleges. Together they provide an historical appreciation and architectural inspiration of this classic building form. In the United States, boathouses belonged with straw hats, parasols, and lovely picnic lunches as part of the Gilded Age, when some people had the wherewithal to build...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764331906
• ISBN13: 9780764331909
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.6" x 11.1"