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A Field Guide to American Houses - Softcover

McAlester, Virginia; McAlester, Lee

 
9780394510323: A Field Guide to American Houses
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0394510321 ISBN 13: 9780394510323
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1984

Synopsis

This comprehensive portable guide to American domestic architecture covers the entire continental United States

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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.

From the Inside Flap

e lover and the curious tourist, for the house buyer and the weekend stroller, for neighborhood preservation groups and for all who want to know more about their community -- here, at last, is a book that makes it both easy and pleasurable to identify the various styles and periods of American domestic architecture.

Concentrating not on rare landmarks but on typical dwellings in ordinary neighborhoods all across the United States -- houses built over the past three hundred years and lived in by Americans of every social and economic background -- the book provides you with the facts (and frame of reference) that will enable you to look in a fresh way at the houses you constantly see around you. It tells you -- and shows you in more than 1,200 illustrations -- what you need to know in order to be able to recognize the several distinct architectural styles and to understand their historical significance. What does that cornice mean? Or that porch? That door? When was this house built? What

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Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date
1984
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0394510321
ISBN 13 
9780394510323
Binding
Paperback
Illustrator
Jarrett Lauren
Number of pages
544