A field guide to American houses : the definitive guide to identifying and understanding America's domestic architecture
(2015)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
728.0973/MCALESTER,V
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PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015
EDITION
Second edition ; paperback edition
DESCRIPTION
xxv, 848 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0375710825, 9780375710827, 9780375710827, 0375710825 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"The best-selling classic by Virgina and Lee McAlester now revised and expanded to include homes built after 1940 and a new section on how to 'read' a neighborhood."--Cover
Looking at American Houses -- Folk Houses -- Colonial Houses (1600-1820) -- Romantic Houses (1820-1880) -- Victorian Houses (1860-1900) -- Eclectic Houses (1880-1940) -- English and Anglo-American Period Houses -- French Period Houses -- Mediterranean and Spanish Period Houses -- Modern Houses (1900-present) -- Mainstream Modern -- Styled Houses Since 1935 -- Appendix