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A field guide to American houses : the definitive guide to identifying and understanding America's domestic architecture  Cover Image Book Book

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

McAlester, Virginia 1943- (author.). Matty, Suzanne Patton, (illustrator.). Clicque, Steve, (photographer.). McAlester, A. Lee (Arcie Lee), 1933- (author.). Jarrett, Lauren, (illustrator,, contributor.). Rodriguez-Arnaiz, Juan, (illustrator,, contributor.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0375710825
  • ISBN: 9780375710827
  • Physical Description: print
    xxv, 848 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
  • Edition: Second edition ; paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

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General Note:
"The best-selling classic by Virgina and Lee McAlester now revised and expanded to include homes built after 1940 and a new section on how to 'read' a neighborhood."--cover.
"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"--from title page.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 791-814) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Looking at American houses -- Folk houses -- Colonial houses (1600-1820) -- Romantic houses (1820-1880) -- Victorian houses (1860-1900) -- Eclectic houses (1880-1940) -- Modern houses (1900-present) -- Styled houses since 1935 -- Appendix.
Subject: Architecture, Domestic United States Guidebooks
Architecture, Domestic
United States Guidebooks
United States
Genre: Guidebooks.
Guidebooks.

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