Images of an American land : vernacular architecture studies in the Western United States / edited by Thomas Carter.

Title & Author:

Images of an American land : vernacular architecture studies in the Western United States / edited by Thomas Carter.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

Description:

xvi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : a theory for Western vernacular architecture / Thomas Carter -- False-front architecture on Montana's urban frontier / Kingston Heath -- Folk design in Utah architecture, 1849 1890 / Thomas Carter -- The Calef's farm in Oregon : a Vermont vernacular comes west / Philip Dole -- Dry Creek : central Nevada's Damele ranch / Blanton Owen -- When a room is the hall : the houses of west Las Vegas, New Mexico / Chris Wilson -- Russian churches, American houses, Aleut people : converging cultures in the Pribilof Islands, Alaska / Alison K. Hoagland -- Chinatown of Gold Mountain : the Chinese in Locke, California / Christopher L. Yip -- Keeping house : women, domesticity, and the use of domestic space in nineteenth-century Nevada / Margaret Purser -- The real estate associates : a land and housing developer of the 1870s in San Francisco / Anne Bloomfield -- Innovation without paradigm : the many creators of the drive-in market / Richard Longstreth -- The historic industrial landscape of Butte and Anaconda, Montana / Fredric L. Quivik -- American modernism in the west : Hoover Dam / Richard Guy Wilson.

ISBN:

0826317294 cloth
9780826317292
0826317308 pbk
9780826317308

Subject:

Vernacular architecture West (U.S.)
Ethnic architecture West (U.S.)
Ethnic architecture
Vernacular architecture
West United States

Added entries:

Carter, Thomas, 1949-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 134768
Call No.: ID NA725.I42; ID:97-B550
Status: Available

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