![]() Its rich stew of styles and types has drawn on many sources-immigrant traditions, publications, imported designs-to serve a full range of purposes. ![]() Through a long history spanning much of the American experience, the state has been in the mainstream. This book looks beyond the stereotypes to document the remarkable quality, humanity, and persistence of the state's built landscape, but not necessarily its uniqueness. However appealing, this travel-brochure image does little justice to the architectural richness of a place that retains so dense and comprehensive a variety of building types, landscapes, and historic environments that the state has been proclaimed a “unique” world destination by National Geographic Traveler and designated a national historic treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Green Mountain State's popular image epitomizes New England-handsome barns overlooking grazing cows in rolling pastures, white country churches punctuating hillsides of blazing maples, and small villages clustering around gracious greens. ![]() Vermont is small, but noteworthy in excess of its size, and significant beyond its well-known stereotypes.
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