Field Guide to American Houses

Name: Field Guide to American Houses
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ISBN: 9780394739694

ISBN-10: 0394739698

ISBN-13: 9780394739694

Edition: 1984

Authors: Virginia McAlester, Lee McAlester, Lauren Jarrett, Juan Rodrigues-Arnaiz

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The guide that enables you to identify, and place in their historic and architectural contexts, the houses you see in your neighborhood or in your travels across America. 17th century to the present.

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/12/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



How to Use This Book


Preface


Looking at American Houses


Style: The Fashions of American Houses


Form: The Shapes of American Houses


Structure: The Anatomy of American Houses


Pictorial Key and Glossary


Folk Houses


Native American


Pre-Railroad


National


Colonial Houses (1600-1820)


Postmedieval English


Dutch Colonial


French Colonial


Spanish Colonial


Georgian


Adam


Early Classical Revival


Romantic Houses (1820-1880)


Greek Revival


Gothic Revival


Italianate


Exotic Revivals


Octagon


Victorian Houses (1860-1900)


Second Empire


Stick


Queen Anne


Shingle


Richardsonian Romanesque


Folk Victorian


Eclectic Houses (1880-1940)


Anglo-American, English, and French Period Houses


Colonial Revival


Neoclassical


Tudor


Chateauesque


Beaux Arts


French Eclectic


Mediterranean Period Houses


Italian Renaissance


Mission


Spanish Eclectic


Monterey


Pueblo Revival


Modern Houses


Prairie


Craftsman


Modernistic


International


American Houses Since 1940


Modern


Neoeclectic


Contemporary Folk


For Further Reference


Photo Credits


Index