Americana : Farmhouses and Manors of Long IslandSet between the sound and the sea, Long Island is home to some of Americas most intriguing country houses. This book highlights the best examples, telling the story of each through outstanding contemporary color photography. The dwellings, which began as 17th century homesteads and 18th century, high style plantation manor houses, embody centuries of ownership and building activityan aesthetic evolution shaped by both Dutch and English colonial