Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945 - Softcover

John J. G. Blumenson

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9780393306101: Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393306100 ISBN 13: 9780393306101
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979

Synopsis

What styles of architecture are found in your neighborhood--Georgian, Prairie, International, Spanish, Colonial Revival?

This book enables the reader to determine styles and identify architectural terms by comparing real buildings with the book's many photographs.
214 photographs

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Review

Blumenson has called out stylistic details and architectural terms in the book's 214 chronological photographs. This guide will help you identify (and write about) not only homes, but also banks, churches and other buildings that may have puncuated your ancestors' town. (Sharon DeBartolo Carmack Family Tree Magazine, October 2003)

An extremely 'user friendly' identification tool, Identifying American Architecture is highly recommended for both students of American architecture and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in identifying architectural classifications of buildings they encounter on trips and excursions throughout the country or in their own neighborhoods. (Wisconsin Bookwatch)

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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
1979
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0393306100
ISBN 13 
9780393306101
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
144
Rating
  • 3.79 out of 5 stars
    56 ratings by Goodreads