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Architectural Styles

• McAlester, Virginia and Lee McAlester. A Field Guide to American Houses, New York: Random House, 1984. Read the introduction of each "style" and peruse the examples. [View on Amazon.]
  • Style, pp. 5-17.
  • Colonial 1600-1820, pp. 102-111.
  • Georgian, pp. 138-151.
  • Adam (Federal), pp. 152-167
  • Romantic Houses 1820-1880, pp.176-317
  • Eclectic Houses 1880-1940, pp. 3118-385
• Poppeliers, John C. and S. Allen Chambers, What Style Is It? Wiley, 2003. View on Amazon.

1. Study of Architectural History
   1. American Architectural Styles (Brief descriptions, in progress.)
   2. Rapoport, Amos. House Form and Culture, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969, Chapter 1: The Nature and Definition of the Field, pp.1-3.
   3. McAlester, Virginia and Lee McAlester. A Field Guide to American Houses, New York: Random House, 1984, Looking at American house: Style — The Fashions of American Houses
   4. John C. Poppeliers, Nancy B. Schwartz, S. Allen Chambers. What Style Is It? New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1995 (1983), Part One: Styles of the Colonial Period, page 3.
   5. Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780, Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, (1969), Preface, p. viii.
   6. Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City...
2. Architectural Sourcebooks
   1. Introduction
   2. European Sources
   3. Builder's Guidebooks
   4. House Pattern Books
   5. Contemporary Theory
   6. Periodicals