Early Architecture of Cape May County New Jersey The Heavy Timber Frame Legacy

After more than a decade of research, architectural historian Joan Berkey has written a book about Cape May County's historic buildings, the earliest of which dates to about 1691. The book chronicles the county's significant collection of heavy timber frame-also known as post-and-beam-buildings, and reveals the link between those who came from England to settle in the Massachusetts Bay area, then Long Island, and eventually to Cape May County. Beautifully illustrated with more than 240 photographs and carefully detailed descriptions, this intriguing journey through architectural history provides glimpses into the times, people, buildings, and builders who shaped the Jersey cape landscape before the grand Victorian era.