A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic ArchitectureThe fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses. This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings. |
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A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to ... Virginia Savage McAlester No preview available - 2015 |
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19th century American houses American Wernacular architect architectural areas Beaux Arts brick built CENTERED GABLE Chateauesque chimneys cities CLASSICAL ORDERS Colonial houses Colonial Revival columns common commonly construction cornice Craftsman decorative dominant dormers DUTCH COLONIAL dwellings Early Classical Revival eaves elaborate entry porch example exterior Federal framing FRENCH COLONIAL French Eclectic front facade front-gabled GABLE-FRONT Gothic Revival Greek Revival grid hall-and-parlor high-style HIPPED ROOF homes I-house Italian Renaissance later additions lots masonry mid-19th century Millennium Mansion NATIVE AMERICAN neighborhoods Neoclassical Note one-story original overhang pattern pediment PICTORIAL KEY POSTMEDIEVAL ENGLISH Prairie PRE-RAILROAD Principal Subtypes Queen Anne railroad rectangular Renaissance Classical Richardsonian Romanesque Roof Form RURAL TRADITION sashes Second Empire shape Shingle SIDE-GABLED ROOF space Spanish Colonial Spanish Revival steeply pitched street streetcar streetcar suburbs STRUCTURE Styled Ranch stylistic suburbs surviving timbers TOWN HOUSE Tudor two-story typically United urban usually Victorian Virginia walls wood wood-frame wooden