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A Field Guide to American Houses

By: Virginia McAlester,Arcie Lee McAlester

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A Field Guide to American Houses

By: Virginia McAlester,Arcie Lee McAlester

The guide that enables you to identify, and place in their historic and architectural contexts, the houses you see in your neighborhood or in your travels across America. 17th century to the present.

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Alfred A. Knopf

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ISBN 10

0394739698

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9780394739694

A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised)

The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture

By: Virginia Savage McAlester

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A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised)

The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture

By: Virginia Savage McAlester

The 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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881

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Knopf

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0375710825

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9780375710827

Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles

By: Lee McAlester,Virginia McAlester

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Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles

By: Lee McAlester,Virginia McAlester

A sumptuously illustrated, authoritative introduction to the principal architectural and decorating styles of the American house, from Colonial times to the mid-twentieth century. In this lavishly produced volume, authors Virginia and Lee McAlester explore outstanding landmark houses that exemplify America's major architectural and interior design styles from Colonial times to the mid-twentieth century. These twenty-five houses are illustrated with more than 350 specially commissioned full-color photographs of interior and exterior views, 125 black-and-white line drawings and floor plans, historical paintings, and vintage photographs. The text not only discusses the houses architectural innovations and design elements but also profiles the architects and their clients. The featured houses were built by many of the country's leading architects—from Alexander Jackson Davis, Richard Morris Hunt, Henry Hobson Richardson, and McKim, Mead and White to Frank Lloyd Wright, the Greene brothers, and Walter Gropius—and owned by some of its most celebrated citizens, including Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Jay Gould, the Guggenheim's, the Phippses', and the Vanderbilt's. As a result, the book is as much a cultural history as it is an architectural study. The authors also include an informative discussion of each style as it can be seen in vernacular versions around the country. Located all over the United States, most of the featured houses are open to the public, and the book provides their addresses and other helpful information for visitors. Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles will be irresistible to all house lovers, architects, and designers, and will give readers a deeper understanding and appreciation of our rich architectural heritage.

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Abbeville Publishing Group

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1558597506

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9781558597501

A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised)

The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture

By: Virginia Savage McAlester

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The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture

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New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier

Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio

By: Virginia E. McCormick,Robert W. McCormick

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New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier

Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio

By: Virginia E. McCormick,Robert W. McCormick

This work examines the founding and development of Worthington, Ohio to show how it reflects New England culture transplanted and reshaped by the Western frontier. It provides a perspective from which historians can better understand the process of westward migration and frontier settlement.

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384

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Kent State University Press

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0873386523

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9780873386524

Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles

By: Lee McAlester,Virginia McAlester

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By: Lee McAlester,Virginia McAlester

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Book's by Virginia McAlester

A Field Guide to American Houses

A Field Guide to American Houses

A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised)

A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised)

Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles

Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles

A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised)

A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised)

New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier

New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier

Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles

Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles

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