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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
Index
e 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.
Concentrating not on rare landmarks but on typical dwellings in ordinary neighborhoods all across the United States -- houses built over the past three hundred years and lived in by Americans of every social and economic background -- the book provides you with the facts (and frame of reference) that will enable you to look in a fresh way at the houses you constantly see around you. It tells you -- and shows you in more than 1,200 illustrations -- what you need to know in order to be able to recognize the several distinct architectural styles and to understand their historical significance. What does that cornice mean? Or that porch? That door? When was this house built? What
Concentrating not on rare landmarks but on typical dwellings in ordinary neighborhoods all across the United States -- houses built over the past three hundred years and lived in by Americans of every social and economic background -- the book provides you with the facts (and frame of reference) that will enable you to look in a fresh way at the houses you constantly see around you. It tells you -- and shows you in more than 1,200 illustrations -- what you need to know in order to be able to recognize the several distinct architectural styles and to understand their historical significance. What does that cornice mean? Or that porch? That door? When was this house built? What
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- PublisherConsumers Union
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0890431493
- ISBN 13 9780890431498
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages525
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