A Field Guide to America's Historic Neighborhoods and Museum Houses: The Western States. This item is unavailable.A Field Guide to America's Historic Neighborhoods and Museum Houses: The Western States

An architectural history of the American West is chronicled in a study of remarkable old houses and historic neighborhoods, offering concise profiles of the architecture and history of some of the cities, towns, neighborhoods, and homes of the region. Simultaneous. 35,000 first printing.

Virginia McAlester is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College and attended Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member and past president of Preservation Dallas (formerly called the Historic Preservation League, Inc.) and of Friends of Fair Park, a support group for the Fair Park National Historic Landmark in Dallas, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. She serves on the Dallas Landmark Commission and is an Adviser Emeritus of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Lee McAlester, a geologist by profession, is Chairman of the Geology Department at Southern Methodist University and was formerly Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences there. He is the author of several geology textbooks as well as numerous scientific monographs and papers. He has an active interest in architectura