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The book highlights the rich history of 40 exceptional stage theaters across the United States, featuring original photographs that showcase a variety of architectural styles, including Eastern town hall opera houses and Midwest venues. It also provides a comprehensive state-by-state and chronological inventory of over 200 additional surviving theaters from the nineteenth century, offering a deep dive into America's theatrical heritage.

Over 340 color photos display barns in the English and New England styles that dot the landscape of Cape Cod's fifteen townships, including many detail shots. Wooden and stone barns dating from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries appear, including barns for sheltering animals, grain, cranberries, strawberries, turnips, and asparagus.