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A field guide to American houses : the definitive guide to identifying and understanding America's domestic architecture / Virginia Savage McAlester ; with drawings by Suzanne Patton Matty and photographs by Steve Clicque.

by McAlester, Virginia, 1943-

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

Architecture, Domestic -- United States.

Architecture, Domestic -- United States -- History.

9781400043590 (hc.)

140004359X (hc.)

Alternate title:

Guide to American houses : the definitive guide to identifying and understanding America's domestic architecture

American houses : the definitive guide to identifying and understanding America's domestic architecture

Revised and expanded edition / Second edition.

xxv, 848 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Revised and expanded from the original edition written by Virginia and Lee McAlester ; with drawings by Lauren Jarrett and model house drawings by Juan Rodriguez-Arnaiz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Looking at American houses -- Folk houses -- Colonial houses (1600-1820) -- Romantic houses (1820-1880) -- Victorian houses (1860-1900) -- Eclectic houses (1880-1940) -- English and Anglo-American period houses -- French period houses -- Mediterranean and Spanish period houses -- Modern houses (1900-present) -- Early modern -- Bankers modern -- Mainstream modern -- Styled houses since 1935.

A comprehensive guide to domestic architecture. Focusing on dwellings in urban and suburban neighborhoods and rural locations all across the continental United States, this guide provides in-depth information on the essentials, with facts and frames of reference that will enable you to look in a fresh way at the houses around you.

Matty, Suzanne Patton.

Clicque, Steve.

McAlester, A. Lee (Arcie Lee), 1933-

Jarrett, Lauren.

Rodriguez-Arnaiz, Juan.

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