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Knopf
Language
English
Pages
525

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Subjects
Guidebooks, Description and travel, Domestic Architecture, Designs and plans, Architecture domestique, History, Guides, Architecture, Domestic
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United States

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A field guide to American houses
2005, Knopf
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A field guide to American houses
1989, Knopf
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A field guide to American houses
1987, Consumers Union
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A field guide to American houses
1984, Consumers Union
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1984, Knopf
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Table of Contents

Looking at American houses: Style
Form
Structure
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
Ricardsonian 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.

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"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-510) and index.

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Genre
Guidebooks., Designs and plans

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xv, 525 p. :
Number of pages
525

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OL22377510M
Internet Archive
fieldguidetoamer00mcal
ISBN 10
0394739698
Library Thing
92342
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1013972

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