| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Book Review

The Patina of Place: The Cultural Weathering of a New England Industrial Landscape. By Kingston Wm. Heath. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. xxiv, 249 pp. $55.00, ISBN 1-57233-138-0.)

Kingston Wm. Heath has written the first full history of industrial worker housing in a single city and the best and most thoughtful analysis of the New England "three-decker," the ubiquitous housing form that so characterized its cities. The book deserves a wide readership among historians of labor, family, and immigration. It also offers a sympathetic and contrarian view of what it means to "preserve" vernacular forms.

The city is New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Heath takes us through its history as the world's premier whaling port from roughly 1829 to 1857 to its subsequent rise as a major producer of fine cottons in the years from 1880 to 1910. The new elite bought and transformed the grand Greek Revival houses of the merchants and ship captains, built more than twenty-five large mills, and built the housing necessary for their workers.

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