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    A Field Guide to American Houses

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

    Author Virginia Savage McAlester
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    Knopf
    On sale Jul 29, 2015 | 880 Pages | 9780385353878
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    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.
    How to Use This Book
    Preface
    Pictorial Key and Glossary
     
    LOOKING AT AMERICAN HOUSES
    Style: The Fashions of American Houses
    Form: The Shapes of American Houses
    Structure: The Anatomy of American Houses
    Neighborhoods: The Groupings of American Houses
     
    FOLK HOUSES
    Native American
    Pre-Railroad
    National
    Manufactured
     
    COLONIAL HOUSES (1600–1820)
    Postmedieval English
    Dutch Colonial
    French Colonial
    Spanish Colonial
    Georgian
    Federal
    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)
     
    English and Anglo-American Period Houses
    Colonial Revival
    Neoclassical
    Tudor
     
    French Period Houses
    Chateauesque
    Beaux Arts
    French Eclectic
     
    Mediterranean and Spanish Period Houses
    Italian Renaissance
    Mission
    Spanish Revival
    Monterey
    Pueblo Revival
     
    MODERN HOUSES (1900–present)
     
    Early Modern
    Prairie
    Craftsman
    Modernistic
     
    Bankers Modern
    Minimal Traditional
    Ranch
    Split-Level
     
    Mainstream Modern
    International
    Contemporary
    Shed
    Other 20th-Century Modern
    21st-Century Modern
     
    STYLED HOUSES SINCE 1935
    Mansard
    Styled Ranch
    Millennium Mansion
    New Traditional
    American Vernacular
     
    APPENDIX
    Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries
     
    Notes
    For Further Reference
    Acknowledgments
    About the Illustrations
    Photo Credits
    Index 
    © Steve Clicque
    VIRGINIA McALESTER, was educated at Radcliffe and attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member and past president of Preservation Dallas and also of Friends of Fair Park, the support group for a National Historic Landmark. She serves as an advisor emeritus for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is the author of The Making of a Historic District: Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Texas, a 40-page booklet "how-to" published by the National Trust in 1975 that historic groups across the country have used as a guide in creating their historic districts. She is coauthor of The Homes of the Park Cities, Dallas: Great American Suburbs. View titles by Virginia Savage McAlester
    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 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.

    Table of Contents

    How to Use This Book
    Preface
    Pictorial Key and Glossary
     
    LOOKING AT AMERICAN HOUSES
    Style: The Fashions of American Houses
    Form: The Shapes of American Houses
    Structure: The Anatomy of American Houses
    Neighborhoods: The Groupings of American Houses
     
    FOLK HOUSES
    Native American
    Pre-Railroad
    National
    Manufactured
     
    COLONIAL HOUSES (1600–1820)
    Postmedieval English
    Dutch Colonial
    French Colonial
    Spanish Colonial
    Georgian
    Federal
    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)
     
    English and Anglo-American Period Houses
    Colonial Revival
    Neoclassical
    Tudor
     
    French Period Houses
    Chateauesque
    Beaux Arts
    French Eclectic
     
    Mediterranean and Spanish Period Houses
    Italian Renaissance
    Mission
    Spanish Revival
    Monterey
    Pueblo Revival
     
    MODERN HOUSES (1900–present)
     
    Early Modern
    Prairie
    Craftsman
    Modernistic
     
    Bankers Modern
    Minimal Traditional
    Ranch
    Split-Level
     
    Mainstream Modern
    International
    Contemporary
    Shed
    Other 20th-Century Modern
    21st-Century Modern
     
    STYLED HOUSES SINCE 1935
    Mansard
    Styled Ranch
    Millennium Mansion
    New Traditional
    American Vernacular
     
    APPENDIX
    Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries
     
    Notes
    For Further Reference
    Acknowledgments
    About the Illustrations
    Photo Credits
    Index 

    Author

    © Steve Clicque
    VIRGINIA McALESTER, was educated at Radcliffe and attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member and past president of Preservation Dallas and also of Friends of Fair Park, the support group for a National Historic Landmark. She serves as an advisor emeritus for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is the author of The Making of a Historic District: Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Texas, a 40-page booklet "how-to" published by the National Trust in 1975 that historic groups across the country have used as a guide in creating their historic districts. She is coauthor of The Homes of the Park Cities, Dallas: Great American Suburbs. View titles by Virginia Savage McAlester

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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

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