A Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia McAlester

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A Field Guide to American Houses

by Virginia McAlester

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Excellent resource for determining the age and style of homes in America based on shape, construction, and location. As good as any Audubon book on birds. (

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This is an excellent introduction and reference to American architectural styles. (

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Alexander Jackson Davis

Andrew Jackson Downing

Benjamin H. Latrobe

Henry Hobson Richardson

Frank Lloyd Wright

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to Clement, Martine, Amy, Keven

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Domestic buildings are of two principal sorts: folk houses and styled houses.

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Andrew O. Anderson House

Charles E. Roberts Stable

George W. Smith House (Oak Park, Illinois)

Georgian architecture

Harrison P. Young House

Lampert-Wildflower House

Ruffin Drew Fletcher House

Scales Mound Historic District

Stephen Wright House

Thomas H. Gale House

Union House

William Ritzman House

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0394739698, Paperback)

The guide that enables you to identify, and place in their historic and architectural contexts, the houses you see in your neighborhood or in your travels across America. 17th century to the present.

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