Images of an American land
Subtitle: vernacular architecture in the Western United States
By: edited by Thomas Carter.
Contributors: Carter, Thomas, 1949-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Vernacular architecture -- West (U.S.); Ethnic architecture -- West (U.S.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a theory for Western vernacular architecture / Thomas Carter; title: False-front architecture on Montana's urban frontier / Kingston Heath; title: Folk design in Utah architecture, 1849 1890 / Thomas Carter; title: The Calef's farm in Oregon : a Vermont vernacular comes west / Philip Dole; title: Dry Creek : central Nevada's Damele ranch / Blanton Owen; title: When a room is the hall : the houses of west Las Vegas, New Mexico / Chris Wilson; title: Russian churches, American houses, Aleut people : converging cultures in the Pribilof Islands, Alaska / Alison K. Hoagland; title: Chinatown of Gold Mountain : the Chinese in Locke, California / Christopher L. Yip; title: Keeping house : women, domesticity, and the use of domestic space in nineteenth-century Nevada / Margaret Purser; title: The real estate associates : a land and housing developer of the 1870s in San Francisco / Anne Bloomfield; title: Innovation without paradigm : the many creators of the drive-in market / Richard Longstreth; title: The historic industrial landscape of Butte and Anaconda, Montana / Fredric L. Quivik; title: American modernism in the west : Hoover Dam / Richard Guy Wilson.