| Description |
xv, 525 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-510) and index. |
| Note |
Page facing the title page erroneously gives the publication date as 1994. |
| Contents |
Looking at American houses: Style -- Form -- Structure -- 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 -- Ricardsonian 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. |
| Summary |
For the house lover and the curious tourist, for the house buyer and the weekend stroller, for neighborhood preservation groups and for all who want to know more about their community, here, at last, is a book that makes it both easy and pleasurable to identify the various styles and periods of American domestic architecture. |
| Form |
Also available online. |
| Subject |
Architecture, Domestic -- United States -- Guidebooks.
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Architecture, Domestic. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Guidebooks.
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| Subject |
United States -- Guidebooks.
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| Genre/Form |
Guidebooks.
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| Added Author |
McAlester, A. Lee (Arcie Lee), 1933-2016.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: McAlester, Virginia, 1943- Field guide to American houses. New York : Knopf, 1984 (OCoLC)558484915 |
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Online version: McAlester, Virginia, 1943- Field guide to American houses. New York : Knopf, 1984 (OCoLC)564544025 |
| ISBN |
0394739698 paperback |
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9780394739694 paperback |
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0394510321 |
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9780394510323 |
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