Abstract
As early as the 1840s, Boston architectural critic Arthur Gilman was writing glowingly about colonial and early federal period houses in the northeast. By the 1870s, New England architects were scouring the countryside recording surviving buildings of the late 1700s and early 1800s. These published sketches and photographs inspired new designs and, as a recent historian wrote, established "a Colonial Revival vocabulary as one of the dominant and enduring images of American architecture."
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