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The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses.
This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries ; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.How to Use This Book Preface Pictorial Key and Glossary   LOOKING AT AMERICAN HOUSES Style: The Fashions of American Houses Form: The Shapes of American Houses Structure: The Anatomy of American Houses Neighborhoods: The Groupings of American Houses   FOLK HOUSES Native American Pre-Railroad National Manufactured   COLONIAL HOUSES (1600–1820) Postmedieval English Dutch Colonial French Colonial Spanish Colonial Georgian Federal Early Classical Revival   ROMANTIC HOUSES (1820–1880) Greek Revival Gothic Revival Italianate Exotic Revivals Octagon   VICTORIAN HOUSES (1860–1900) Second Empire Stick Queen Anne Shingle Richardsonian Romanesque Folk Victorian   ECLECTIC HOUSES (1880–1940)   English and Anglo-American Period HouseslĂr