This book features 88 stone houses built in Jefferson County, New York, mainly before 1860, based on land records, family archives, and published histories, as well as interviews with building owners, and organized by town. They include discussion of the houses' (and towns') history, architecture, landscape, proportions, functions, and variations. The concluding chapters discuss lost stone buildings, geology and quarrying, and construction and preservation. Contemporary and period photos are provided, as are excerpts and drawings from Jacques Milbert's Picturesque Itinerary of the Hudson River and the Peripheral Parts of North America (1828). Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)