A Field Guide to American Houses

by Virginia McAlester, Lee McAlester

Other authors: Lauren Jarrett (Illustrator), Juan Rodriguez-Arnaiz (Illustrator)

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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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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Virginia McAlester	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
McAlester, Lee	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Jarrett, Lauren	Illustrator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Rodriguez-Arnaiz, Juan	Illustrator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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A Field Guide to American Houses

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1984-05-12

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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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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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Enables one to identify and place in their historical contexts houses you see built from the 17th century until the present.