A field guide to American houses

A field guide to American houses

Virginia McAlester, 1943-2020

Book - 1984

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Subjects
Architecture, Domestic > Guidebooks.
United States > Guidebooks.
Published
New York : Knopf 1984.
Language
English
Main Author
Virginia McAlester, 1943-2020 (-)
Other Authors
A. Lee (Arcie Lee) McAlester, 1933-2016 (-)
Physical Description
xv, 525 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes index.
Bibliography: pages 501-510.
ISBN
9780394510323
9780394739694
  • 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

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