num_pages: 448
description: This book is a guide to the architectural styles of American houses. Highly illustrated with photographs and overlays to identify key recognition features it covers a variety of architectural styles from colonial to modern America. In a section by section treatment The Houses We Live In details how the various styles were developed its originators and proponents the main dates when the style was popular and the main houses and regions that saw the style. Detailed photographs show variations of the style from all angles and close-ups of key points. Contents Vernacular architecture (Native American log cabin etc.); Colonial; European Revival (Greek Gothic etc.); Victorian (Second Empire Richardson Romanesque etc.); Pre-WW2 (Neoclassical Beaux Arts Tudor Mediterranean etc.); and American Modern (Prairie Craftsman).
language: English
title: The Houses We Live In: An Identification Guide to the History and Style of American Domestic Architecture
publisher: Thunder Bay Press