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A Field Guide to American Houses
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A Field Guide to American Houses Softcover - 1993

by Mcalester, Virginia & Lee McAlester

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine copy. 1993. Later prt.. softcover. Tall 8vo, 525 pp., With drawings by Lauren Jarrett & model house drawings by Juan Rodriguez-Arnaiz. .
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  • Title A Field Guide to American Houses
  • Author Mcalester, Virginia & Lee McAlester
  • Illustrator Profusely illustrated
  • Binding softcover
  • Edition Later prt.
  • Condition Used - Fine copy
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, New York
  • Date 1993
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BOOKS110942I
  • ISBN 9780394739694 / 0394739698
  • Weight 1.81 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.38 x 6.62 x 1.14 in (23.83 x 16.81 x 2.90 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Guidebooks, Architecture, Domestic - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 82048740
  • Dewey Decimal Code 728.097

From the publisher

Virginia and Lee McAlester have both avocational and professional interests in architecture. Virginia, a Radcliffe graduate, attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member and past president of the Historic Preservation League, Inc. (Dallas), and for nine years was Texas Advisor and a member of the Administrative Committee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is co-author of The Making of a Historic District: Swiss Avenue. Lee, a geologist, is a professor at Southern Methodist University and was formerly Dean of the School of Humanities. From 1960 to 1973 he was Professor of Geology at Yale University. He has an active hobby interest in architectural history and has been involved in historic preservation in New England, Georgia, and the Southwest. The McAlesters live in Dallas, Texas.

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How to Use This Book

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

About the author

Virginia and Lee McAlester have both avocational and professional interests in architecture. Virginia, a Radcliffe graduate, attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member and past president of the Historic Preservation League, Inc. (Dallas), and for nine years was Texas Advisor and a member of the Administrative Committee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is co-author of The Making of a Historic District: Swiss Avenue. Lee, a geologist, is a professor at Southern Methodist University and was formerly Dean of the School of Humanities. From 1960 to 1973 he was Professor of Geology at Yale University. He has an active hobby interest in architectural history and has been involved in historic preservation in New England, Georgia, and the Southwest. The McAlesters live in Dallas, Texas.