Title: America's favorite homes : mail-order catalogues as a guide to popular early 20th-century houses /
Authors: Schweitzer, Robert, 1949-; Davis, Michael W. R., 1931-
Publisher: Wayne State University Press,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic United States Designs and plans Catalogs.; Mail-order business United States Catalogs.
Contents: About architectural style -- Color illustrations -- SECTION I: DEVELOPING ARCHITECTURAL STYLES AND CONSTRUCTION TECHONOLOGIES: American housing styles at the end of the 19th century -- Historical American construction techniques -- Prefabricated housing -- Plans books and catalogue homes -- History of the Aladdin Company -- Catalog home advertising -- Pre-cut manufacturing processes -- How prefabricated homes were assembled -- Catalogue homes in company towns -- SECTION II: NATIONAL PERIOD, 1900-1920: Survivals -- Revivals -- New American homes -- SECTION III: ACADEMIC PERIOD, 1920-1941: Modern Tudor revivals -- Modern Colonial revivals -- Twilight academic period styles -- Vernacular homes -- Conclusion.