American houses : a field guide to the architecture of the home / Gerald Foster.

Main entry:

Foster, Gerald L.

Title & Author:

American houses : a field guide to the architecture of the home / Gerald Foster.

Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Description:

xvi, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-392) and index.
pt. 1. Colonial traditions -- The new England hearth -- The Hudson River Valley hearth -- The mid-Atlantic hearth and the upland South -- The Chesapeake Bay tidewater hearth -- The southern tidewater hearth -- The French Mississippi hearth -- The Spanish colonial hearths -- pt. 2. 19th-century styles -- The early classical revival -- Early Victorian styles -- Late Victorian styles -- pt. 3. 20th-century revivals and innovations -- The academic revivals -- Extreme academic architecture -- Southwestern and California styles -- Indigenous styles and the bungalow -- Modern trends.

Summary:

An illustrated guide and history to the various types of architecture used in the United States.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0618387994
9780618387991
0395840058
9780395840054

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic United States.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Architecture, Domestic
Architektur
Einfamilienhaus
Geschichte
United States
USA

Form/genre:

Guidebooks.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 230916
Call No.: NA7205 .F6 2004
Status: Available

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