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Great American Houses & Their Architectural Styles Twenty Five Landmarks & Their Architectural Styles

by Virginia Mcalester
Great American Houses & Their Architectural Styles Twenty Five Landmarks & Their Architectural Styles

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ISBN13: 9781558597501
ISBN10: 1558597506
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In this lavishly produced volume, authors Virginia and Lee McAlester explore outstanding landmark houses that exemplify America's major architectural and interior design styles from Colonial times to the mid-twentieth century. These twenty-five houses are illustrated with more than 350 specially commissioned full-color photographs of interior and exterior views, 125 black-and-white line drawings and floor plans, historical paintings, and vintage photographs.

The text not only discusses the houses' architectural innovations and design elements but also profiles the architects and their clients. The featured houses were built by many of the country's leading architects — from Alexander Jackson Davis, Richard Morris Hunt, Henry Hobson Richardson, and McKim, Mead and White to Frank Lloyd Wright, the Greene brothers, and Walter Gropius — and owned by some of its most celebrated citizens, including Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Jay Gould, the Guggenheims, the Phippses, and the Vanderbilts. As a result, the book is as much a cultural history as it is an architectural study. The authors also include an informative discussion of each style as it can be seen in vernacular versions around the country.

Located all over the United States, most of the featured houses are open to the public, and the book provides their addresses and other helpful information for visitors. Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles will be irresistible to all house lovers, architects, and designers, and will give readers a deeper understanding and appreciation of our rich architectural heritage.

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A sumptuously illustrated, authoritative introduction to the principal architectural and decorating styles of the American house, from Colonial times to the mid-twentieth century.

In this lavishly produced volume, authors Virginia and Lee McAlester explore outstanding landmark houses that exemplify America's major architectural and interior design styles from Colonial times to the mid-twentieth century. These twenty-five houses are illustrated with more than 350 specially commissioned full-color photographs of interior and exterior views, 125 black-and-white line drawings and floor plans, historical paintings, and vintage photographs.

The text not only discusses the houses architectural innovations and design elements but also profiles the architects and their clients. The featured houses were built by many of the country's leading architects--from Alexander Jackson Davis, Richard Morris Hunt, Henry Hobson Richardson, and McKim, Mead and White to Frank Lloyd Wright, the Greene brothers, and Walter Gropius--and owned by some of its most celebrated citizens, including Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Jay Gould, the Guggenheim's, the Phippses', and the Vanderbilt's. As a result, the book is as much a cultural history as it is an architectural study. The authors also include an informative discussion of each style as it can be seen in vernacular versions around the country.

Located all over the United States, most of the featured houses are open to the public, and the book provides their addresses and other helpful information for visitors. Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles will be irresistible to all house lovers, architects, and designers, and will give readers a deeper understanding and appreciation of our rich architectural heritage.


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Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-337) and index.

Table of Contents

Colonial houses : Iron Works House, Saugus, Massachusette : First-period English style -- Lee House, Marblehead, Massachusetts : Georgian style -- Russell House, Charleston, South Carolina : Federal style -- Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia : early classical revival style -- Parlange, New Roads, Louisiana : French colonial style -- Spanish Governor's Palace, San Antonio, Texas : Spanish colonial style -- Romantic houses : Melrose, Natchez, Mississippi : Greek revival style -- Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, New York : Gothic revival style -- Morse-Libby house, Portland, Maine : Italianate style -- Victorian houses : Chãateau-sur-Mer, Newport, Rhode Island : Second Empire style -- Mark Twain House, Hartford, Connecticut : stick style -- Glenmont, West Orange, New Jersey : Queen Anne style -- Naumkeag, Stockbridge, Massachusetts : shingle style -- Glessner House, Chicago, Illinois : Richardson Romanesque style --

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ISBN:
9781558597501
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
10/01/1994
Publisher:
ABBEVILLE PRESS
Pages:
348
Height:
1.60IN
Width:
10.30IN
Thickness:
1.25
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1994
Series Volume:
86-18
UPC Code:
2801558597503
Author:
Lee McAlester
Author:
Lee McAlester
Photographer:
Alex McLean
Author:
Alex McLean
Author:
A. Lee McAlester
Author:
Virginia McAlester
Subject:
Architecture, Domestic -- United States.
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Interior decoration
Subject:
Interior decoration -- United States.
Subject:
Interior decoration -- United States -- Themes, motives.
Subject:
Architecture-Houses
Subject:
Architecture, domestic

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