A Guide To Early American Homes
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Guide To Early American Homes
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Author : Outlet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988-12-12
Guide To Early American Homes written by Outlet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-12-12 with categories.
A Guide To Early American Homes
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Author : Dorothy Pratt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
A Guide To Early American Homes written by Dorothy Pratt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Architecture, Domestic categories.
The Essential Guide To Early American Home Plans
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Author : Home Planners, inc
language : en
Publisher: Home Planners, LLC
Release Date : 1987-01-01
The Essential Guide To Early American Home Plans written by Home Planners, inc and has been published by Home Planners, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with Architecture, Colonial categories.
Plans for homes emphasizing Early American architectural styles range from Southern colonial to traditional farmhouses and give examples of gambrel roof variations, salt box homes, Cape Cod cottages and Georgian themes
A Field Guide To American Houses
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Author : Virginia Savage McAlester
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2015-07-29
A Field Guide To American Houses written by Virginia Savage McAlester and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-29 with Architecture categories.
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.
America S Favorite Homes
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Author : Robert Schweitzer
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 1990
America S Favorite Homes written by Robert Schweitzer and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Architecture, Domestic categories.
During the first four decades of the twentieth century, prefabricated and catalogue homes grew in popularity and number. Built and occupied by farmers, merchants, the new armies of factory workers and other lower- and middle-class families, these are the modest homes that today line American streets. Using mail-order house catalogues from the time, Robert Schweitzer and Michael W. R. Davis chart the development of catalogue houses and their variations and include floor plans for many models. Students of architecture, whether amateur of professional, preservationists and academics will find in America's Favorite Homes a handy reference to those homes that soon will be eligible for historic designation.
A Field Guide To American Houses
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Author : Virginia McAlester
language : en
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Release Date : 1984
A Field Guide To American Houses written by Virginia McAlester and has been published by Alfred A. Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Architecture categories.
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.
Early American Homes For Today
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Author : Herbert Wheaton Congdon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Early American Homes For Today written by Herbert Wheaton Congdon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Architecture categories.
House Styles In America
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Author : James C. Massey
language : en
Publisher: Studio
Release Date : 1996
House Styles In America written by James C. Massey and has been published by Studio this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Architectural styles categories.
"This is a book about American house styles, and they are discussed in twenty-one chapters and illustrated with over 200 color plates and line drawings." "Neither a comprehensive history of American residential architecture nor a compendium of America's "greatest" houses, this fascinating and useful book looks instead at broad trends in domestic building from the first days of European settlement on this continent through the Great Depression and beyond - from saltboxes to split-levels. There are certainly mansions to be found here, for they help to define certain styles. Yet the chief focus is not on grand houses but on typical ones - examples that capture the essence of the everyday rather than the extraordinary."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
A Field Guide To American Houses
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Author : Virginia McAlester
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
A Field Guide To American Houses written by Virginia McAlester and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with categories.
Early American Houses
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Author : Norman Morrison Isham
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2013-02-19
Early American Houses written by Norman Morrison Isham and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-19 with Architecture categories.
An intriguing examination of classic colonial houses, this fact-filled foray explores with remarkable concision the "medieval period" of American architecture. The treatise takes for its examples the first houses built along the Atlantic coast in the seventeenth century. While these early structures were usually based on traditional English and Dutch styles, their design and methods of construction soon acquired a unique character of their own. Geographically remote from the stylistic restrictions of Europe, American architects used new plans and construction elements to create fresh new dwellings with individual beauty and charm. Early American Houses includes over 100 photographs and illustrations that highlight the architecture of young America, with a particular focus on the Tudor and late Gothic styles that ultimately shaped the distinctive house designs of today. Original floor plans and sketches abound — including interior and exterior treatments, elevations, and framing — partnered with detailed descriptions that breathe life into each construction. Accompanying this work is a comprehensive Glossary of Colonial Architectural Terms. Originally published separately, it provides definitions for everything from "arch" to "wainscot," and it is reprinted here to enhance the overall value of the companion volume.