Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial Connecticut

xiv, 166 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations. Traces architectural and urban forms of Connecticut from their lineage in English colonial practice in Ireland and on the Continent and establishes their setting in the social and religious pattern of English Puritanism. Sources includ seventeenth-century land surveys to twentieth-century aerial photographs. Sketches the outline of the New England aesthetic in town plans and land divisions, in homes and meetinhouses.