A Field Guide to American Houses

by MCALESTER, VIRGINIA SAVAGEMCALESTER, LEE

• ISBN13: 9780394739694
• ISBN10: 0394739698
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1984-05-12
• Publisher: Knopf

Summary

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 Biography

Virginia and Lee McAlester have both avocational and professional interests in architecture. Virginia, a Radcliffe graduate, attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member and past president of the Historic Preservation League, Inc. (Dallas), and for nine years was Texas Advisor and a member of the Administrative Committee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is co-author of The Making of a Historic District: Swiss Avenue. Lee, a geologist, is a professor at Southern Methodist University and was formerly Dean of the School of Humanities. From 1960 to 1973 he was Professor of Geology at Yale University. He has an active hobby interest in architectural history and has been involved in historic preservation in New England, Georgia, and the Southwest. The McAlesters live in Dallas, Texas.&l

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book	ix
Preface	xi
Looking at American Houses	2	(60)
Style: The Fashions of American Houses	4	(16)
Form: The Shapes of American Houses	20	(12)
Structure: The Anatomy of American Houses	32	(22)
Pictorial Key and Glossary	54	(8)
Folk Houses	62	(40)
Native American	64	(10)
Pre-Railroad	74	(14)
National	88	(14)
Colonial Houses (1600-1820)	102	(74)
Postmedieval English	104	(8)
Dutch Colonial	112	(8)
French Colonial	120	(8)
Spanish Colonial	128	(10)
Georgian	138	(14)
Adam	152	(16)
Early Classical Revival	168	(8)
Romantic Houses (1820-1880)	176	(62)
Greek Revival	178	(18)
Gothic Revival	196	(14)
Italianate	210	(20)
Exotic Revivals	230	(4)
Octagon	234	(4)
Victorian Houses (1860-1900)	238	(80)
Second Empire	240	(14)
Stick	254	(8)
Queen Anne	262	(26)
Shingle	288	(12)
Richardsonian Romanesque	300	(8)
Folk Victorian	308	(10)
Eclectic Houses (1880-1940)	318	(156)
Anglo-American, English, and French Period Houses
Colonial Revival	320	(22)
Neoclassical	342	(12)
Tudor	354	(18)
Chateauesque	372	(6)
Beaux Arts	378	(8)
French Eclectic	386	(10)
Mediterranean Period Houses
Italian Renaissance	396	(12)
Mission	408	(8)
Spanish Eclectic	416	(14)
Monterey	430	(4)
Pueblo Revival	434	(4)
Modern Houses
Prairie	438	(14)
Craftsman	452	(12)
Modernistic	464	(4)
International	468	(6)
American Houses Since 1940	474	(27)
Modern	476	(10)
Neoeclectic	486	(10)
Contemporary Folk	496	(5)
For Further Reference	501	(10)
Photo Credits	511	(4)
Index	515