A Field Guide to American Houses

Présentation de l'éditeur 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. Revue de presse How to Use This Book Preface Looking at American Houses Style: The Fashions of American Houses Form: The Shapes of American Houses Structure: The Anatomy of American Houses Pictorial Key and Glossary Folk Houses Native American Pre-Railroad National Colonial Houses (1600-1820) Postmedieval English Dutch Colonial French Colonial Spanish Colonial Georgian Adam Early Classical Revival Romantic Houses (1820-1880) Greek Revival Gothic Revival Italianate Exotic Revivals Octagon Victorian Houses (1860-1900) Second Empire Stick Queen Anne Shingle Richardsonian Romanesque Folk Victorian Eclectic Houses (1880-1940) Anglo-American, English, and French Period Houses Colonial Revival Neoclassical Tudor Chateauesque Beaux Arts French Eclectic Mediterranean Period Houses Italian Renaissance Mission Spanish Eclectic Monterey Pueblo Revival Modern Houses Prairie Craftsman Modernistic International American Houses Since 1940 Modern Neoeclectic Contemporary Folk For Further Reference Index Biographie de l'auteur Virginia and Lee McAlester have both avocational and professional interests in architecture. Virginia, a Radcliffe graduate, attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member and past president of the Historic Preservation League, Inc. (Dallas), and for nine years was Texas Advisor and a member of the Administrative Committee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is co-author of The Making of a Historic District: Swiss Avenue. Lee, a geologist, is a professor at Southern Methodist University and was formerly Dean of the School of Humanities. From 1960 to 1973 he was Professor of Geology at Yale University. He has an active hobby interest in architectural history and has been involved in historic preservation in New England, Georgia, and the Southwest. The McAlesters live in Dallas, Texas.