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Genre/Form: | Guidebooks Guides |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Virginia McAlester; Suzanne Patton Matty; Steve Clicque; A Lee McAlester; Lauren Jarrett; Juan Rodriguez-Arnaiz |
ISBN: | 9781400043590 140004359X 9780375710827 0375710825 |
OCLC Number: | 1051436745 |
Notes: | "First edition published June 12, 1984"--Title page verso. "A Borzoi Book." |
Description: | xxv, 848 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 27 cm |
Contents: | Looking at American houses -- Folk houses -- Colonial houses (1600-1820) -- Romantic houses (1820-1880) -- Victorian houses (1860-1900) -- Eclectic houses (1880-1940) -- English and Anglo-American period houses -- French period houses -- Mediterranean and Spanish period houses -- Modern houses (1900-present) -- Early modern -- Bankers modern -- Mainstream modern -- Styled houses since 1935. |
Responsibility: | Virginia Savage McAlester ; with drawings by Suzanne Patton Matty and photographs by Steve Clicque ; revised and expanded from the original edition written by Virginia and Lee McAlester ; with drawings by Lauren Jarrett and model house drawings by Juan Rodriguez-Arnaiz. |
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