Gingerbread Gems: Victorian Architecture of Cape May

by Tina Skinner

Book Overview

Cape May has a visual smorgasbord of Victorian architecture and ornamentation, adorned with sparkling coats of colorful paint. Gorgeous examples of Carpenter Gothic, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Edwardian, American Bracketed Villa, and Stick Styles are presented in color, most dating from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, and all dripping with finely cut wood bric-a-brac. Work by celebrated national architects Samuel Sloan and Frank...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076431971X
• ISBN13: 9780764319716
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Gingerbread Gems - Victorian Architecture of Cape May

This is a beautiful picture book showing many of the wonderful houses one would see on a tour of Cape May. The captions indicate their addresses and may give a very brief description of the architecture and some of the history of a house.