Americana: Farmhouses and Manors of Long Island

An visual journey into Long Island's country houses from the 17th to the 20th centuries

Set between the sound and the sea, Long Island is home to some of America’s most intriguing country houses. This book highlights the best examples, telling the story of each through outstanding contemporary color photography.

The dwellings, which began as 17th-century homesteads and 18th-century, high-style plantation manor houses, embody centuries of ownership and building activity—an aesthetic evolu...