A Field Guide To Americas Historic Neighborhoods And Museum Houses

Author : Virginia McAlester
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to America's Historic Neighborhoods and Museum Houses written by Virginia McAlester and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1998 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable, information-packed architectural field guide to historic sports in the Western states comes from the authors of the perennially popular FIELD GUIDE TO AMERICAN HOUSES. The book covers 110 cities and towns with 172 historic neighborhoods and almost 200 museum houses. Over 300 illustrations and 175 maps.

Author : Virginia McAlester
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 : 9780394739694
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to American Houses written by Virginia McAlester and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1984 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Virginia McAlester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756775957
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to America's Historic Neighborhoods and Museum Houses written by Virginia McAlester and published by . This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This information-packed field guide provides a tour of domestic architecture in 110 cities and towns in 17 western states; Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The 172 historic neighborhoods covered contain hundreds of interesting dwellings that can be viewed, without ceremony, from the street -- and almost 200 museum houses of particular architectural &/or artistic significance whose interiors can be visited. The book is organized alphabetically by state, and by cities and towns within each state. There are 700 B&W photographs and drawings and 173 maps. "Here is a book that will be a landmark in its own right."

Author : Gerald L. Foster
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780547561523
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Houses written by Gerald L. Foster and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Houses is a historical guide to the architecture of the American home. While other architectural field guides show only façades, this book includes floor plans, showing how the form of a house arises from its function. Photographs and drawings of exteriors illustrate the significant field marks of each style and help pinpoint the key elements that can identify a house even when it has been remodeled beyond recognition. Beautifully illustrated, clearly written, and impeccably researched, American Houses is an essential reference for anyone interested in the history of American residential architecture.

Author : Virginia Savage McAlester
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385353871
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to American Houses written by Virginia Savage McAlester and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the house lover and the curious tourist, for the house buyer and the weekend stroller, for neighborhood preservation groups and for all who want to know more about their community -- here, at last, is a book that makes it both easy and pleasurable to identify the various styles and periods of American domestic architecture. Concentrating not on rare landmarks but on typical dwellings in ordinary neighborhoods all across the United States -- houses built over the past three hundred years and lived in by Americans of every social and economic background -- the book provides you with the facts (and frame of reference) that will enable you to look in a fresh way at the houses you constantly see around you. It tells you -- and shows you in more than 1,200 illustrations -- what you need to know in order to be able to recognize the several distinct architectural styles and to understand their historical significance. What does that cornice mean? Or that porch? That door? When was this house built? What does its style say about the people who built it? You'll find the answers to such questions here. This is how the book works: Each of thirty-nine chapters focuses on a particular style (and its variants). Each begins with a large schematic drawing that highlights the style's most important identifying features. Additional drawings and photographs depict the most common shapes and the principal subtypes, allowing you to see at a glance a wide range of examples of each style. Still more drawings offer close-up views of typical small details -- windows, doors, cornices, etc. -- that might be difficult to see in full-house pictures. The accompanying text is rich in information about each style -- describing in detail its identifying features, telling you where (and in what quantity) you're likely to find examples of it, discussing all of its notable variants, and revealing its origin and tracing its history. In the book's introductory chapters you'll find invaluable general discussions of house-building materials and techniques ("Structure"), house shapes ("Form"), and the many traditions of architectural fashion ("Style") that have influenced American house design through the past three centuries. A pictorial key and glossary help lead you from simple, easily recognized architectural features -- the presence of a tile roof, for example -- to the styles in which that feature is likely to be found. This eBook edition has been optimized for screen.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old-House Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old-House Journal is the original magazine devoted to restoring and preserving old houses. For more than 35 years, our mission has been to help old-house owners repair, restore, update, and decorate buildings of every age and architectural style. Each issue explores hands-on restoration techniques, practical architectural guidelines, historical overviews, and homeowner stories--all in a trusted, authoritative voice.

Author : Robert A.M. Stern
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580933262
Total Pages : 1073 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradise Planned written by Robert A.M. Stern and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 1073 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradise Planned is the definitive history of the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that originated in England in the late eighteenth century, was quickly adopted in the United State and northern Europe, and gradually proliferated throughout the world. These bucolic settings offered an ideal lifestyle typically outside the city but accessible by streetcar, train, and automobile. Today, the principles of the garden city movement are once again in play, as retrofitting the suburbs has become a central issue in planning. Strategies are emerging that reflect the goals of garden suburbs in creating metropolitan communities that embrace both the intensity of the city and the tranquility of nature. Paradise Planned is the comprehensive, encyclopedic record of this movement, a vital contribution to architectural and planning history and an essential recourse for guiding the repair of the American townscape.

Author : Ann Liberman
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826214782
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governors' Mansions of the Midwest written by Ann Liberman and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Governors' Mansions of the Midwest" explores the history of 12 prominent mansions in the Midwest. Liberman focuses on architectural history, from the houses' construction to various alterations made by later occupants to renovations of recent years.

Author : Russell Versaci
Publisher : Taunton Press
ISBN 13 : 1561588679
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roots of Home written by Russell Versaci and published by Taunton Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the evolution of modern-day traditional-inspired homes from the earliest colonial period, showcasing classic homes designed in such styles as New England Colonial, Pennsylvania Dutch, French Creole, and Spanish Mission, in more than three hundred full-color photographs and drawings.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old-House Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old-House Journal is the original magazine devoted to restoring and preserving old houses. For more than 35 years, our mission has been to help old-house owners repair, restore, update, and decorate buildings of every age and architectural style. Each issue explores hands-on restoration techniques, practical architectural guidelines, historical overviews, and homeowner stories--all in a trusted, authoritative voice.