American House Styles: A Concise GuideAmerica has an abundance of fascinating and varied house styles, as fascinating and diverse as its people. This unique book will allow readers to recognize the architectural features and style of virtually any house they encounter. |
Contents
PALATIAL PALACES 18801930 | 91 |
INDIGENOUS STYLES 18801930 | 107 |
REMINISCENT STYLES 18801940 | 117 |
THE MODERN MOVEMENT 19201960 | 137 |
NOVELTY AND DIVERGENCE 19601990s | 159 |
GLOSSARY | 165 |
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American Architecture American houses arch architects Beaux-Arts became brackets brick British builders bungalow California called Chateauesque chimneys clapboard classical orders colonial houses Colonial Revival column construction cornice corona Craftsman style crown molding cymarecta decorative door Doric Doric order dormer double-hung Dover Publications Dutch early colonial eaves embellished England English entablature evolved facade Fallingwater feature Federal Flemish floor plan frame Frank Lloyd Wright French gable gambrel Georgian Georgian architecture Gothic Revival Greek Revival hip roof horizontal houses built ITALIAN RENAISSANCE REVIVAL Italian Villa late louvered blinds masonry modern architecture mullions muntins Neoclassical Newport nineteenth century overhang Palladian Palladio panes parapeted pediment Picturesque pilasters popular porch Prairie style projecting prototypes Queen Anne Queen Anne style residential Revival houses Revival style Rhode Island Richard Morris Hunt Romanesque rural sash Shingle style siding sloping steeply pitched roofs structure Swiss Cottage term transom Tudor typical usually vernacular wall York