Contact Owners Direct - No Booking FeesA Home Renovator's Guide For Historic Ocean Grove with Memories of A Preservationist, the 1980s
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Picture Book, October 1, 2024
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by Jennifer Boyd (Author), John Sosenko (Photographer)
Part house renovation guide, part memoir, and richly illustrated with 114 stunning color
photographs, this quality-crafted book blends practical advice on restoring historic homes,
Victorian fixer-uppers, and 19th-century architecture with a gripping account of one town's
grassroots fight to save its architectural heritage.
Author Jennifer Boyd and photographer John Sosenko explore eight iconic Victorian-American house
styles in Ocean Grove, New Jersey—an extraordinary National Historic District with one of America’s
most intact collections of 19th-century homes. Photos of work-in-progress and before-and-after transformations
shed light on successful preservation techniques, while Boyd's personal stories of the 1980s take you behind
the scenes of a community-wide effort to save an endangered historic district from fires, neglect, demolitions, and developers.
A special chapter by historic preservation consultant Gail Hunton—illustrated with rare archival
photographs and stereographs—recounts the planning and building of the Ocean Grove “camp meeting”
resort and its role in the 19th-century leisure revolution that
