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Author
Series
Publisher
Material Culture
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Based on thirty-five years of fieldwork, Glassie's Vernacular Architecture synthesizes a career of concern with traditional building. He articulates the key principles of architectural analysis, and then, centering his argument in the United States, but drawing comparative examples from many locations in Europe and Asia, he shows how architecture can be a prime resource for the one who would write a democratic and comprehensive history.
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The definitive illustrated history of American house styles -- from the Dutch colonial, to the New England Salt Box, to the 1950s prefab -- the unrivaled reference and useful guide to 103 building styles pays homage to our country's housing heritage.
16) The farmhouse
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
A study of farm houses from across the country, their exteriors and interiors. Includes more than 250 colored photographs.
Author
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From New England to the Deep South, photographers Susan Daley and Steve Gross have captured more than 100 forgotten buildings along America's old auto routes. Isolated in full-color and black-and-white portraits, the roadside cafés, feed stores, grange halls, juke joints, and general stores are a poignant reminder of the ingenuity of local building practices and working-class culture during the years between the Civil War and the Great Depression....
Author
Publisher
Taunton Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"From one of Fine Homebuilding's best-loved authors, Larry Haun, comes a unique story that looks at American home building from the perspective of twelve houses he has known intimately. Part memoir, part cultural history, A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses takes the reader house by house over an arc of 100 years. Along with period photos, the author shows us the sod house in Nebraska where his mother was born, the frame house of his childhood, the...