Common Houses in America's Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley. A geographical field guide to the American house. Based on an inventory of seventeen thousand homes in twenty sample cities from the Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley, this book explores how Americans housed themselves in the 1980s. Features:Houses are divided into categories based on form, creating five broad families one room deep, two rooms deep, irregularly massed, bungalow, and ranch. Photographs illustrate such diverse types as the hall and parlour cottage, salt box house, and raised ranch house, and such characteristics as height, roof form, and facade material. Charts and maps plot regional variations, revealing for example the prevale

Published by The university of Georgia Press., 1989

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238 pages. Hardcover. Library copy from Prairie View university Texas. Usual stamps, but does not appear to have been used. Good condition. Grey cloth. No dust jacket.

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Title
Common Houses in America's Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley. A geographical field guide to the American house. Based on an inventory of seventeen thousand homes in twenty sample cities from the Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley, this book explores how Americans housed themselves in the 1980s. Features:Houses are divided into categories based on form, creating five broad families one room deep, two rooms deep, irregularly massed, bungalow, and ranch. Photographs illustrate such diverse types as the hall and parlour cottage, salt box house, and raised ranch house, and such characteristics as height, roof form, and facade material. Charts and maps plot regional variations, revealing for example the prevale
Author
John A. Jakle ,Douglas K. Meyer, Robert W. Bastian.
Publisher
The university of Georgia Press.
Publication year
1989

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Founded by Patrick Marrin's father George in 1946, Marrin's Bookshop has been based in its current Folkestone location since 1963. Patrick has worked in bookselling since 1970. As well as rare antiquarian books, maps and prints, the stock includes a wide range of literature, library sets, travel, history and illustrated books in all fields. We also offer a bookbinding and restoration service. Visitors to the shop are welcome and we exhibit at UK book fairs. A large proportion of our stock can be searched on this website, or at http://www.marrinbook.co.uk.…

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