"This guidebook is the first in a series of regional guides covering the continental United States. Other regions under preparation are: Mid-Atlantic, Mid-West, New England, West--"p. iii. "I have compiled this Guide as a means of sharing...our nation's Historic Districts with other travellers. My particular interest is in those Districts where a cluster or more of older buildings offers us a 'sense of time and place,' a glimpse of how life might...