From saltboxes to split-levels, Victorian Ladies to Colonial Revivals, Prairie Styles, bungalows, and Moderns, these are the houses that have defined the architecture of a nation for the past three centuries. In House Styles in America, these classic examples illustrate the major movements that have shaped the American landscape. This beautifully illustrated tour of America's houses begins in 1640 with the early roots of American style--a combination of European skill and attitude combined with American know-how. This architectural journey continues on through the 18th and 19th centuries, through the Greek Revival, the Americanization of the Gothic Revival, and the early Colonial Revival. The houses of the 20th century are the main attraction as House Styles in America delves into the major movements in the Romantic Revivals of the 1920s and 1930s: English, French, and Spanish. Replete with 200 color photographs, this architectural journey is an essential and beautiful guide for realtors, tourists, and students of architecture.

House Styles in America: The Old-House Journal Guide to the Architecture of AmericanHomes

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Massey, James C.

Maxwell, Shirley

Antiques & Collectibles

Studio

This is a book about American house styles, and they are discussed in twenty-one chapters and illustrated with over 200 color plates and line drawings. Neither a comprehensive history of American residential architecture nor a compendium of America's "greatest" houses, this fascinating and useful book looks instead at broad trends in domestic building from the first days of European settlement on this continent through the Great Depression and beyond - from saltboxes to split-levels. There are certainly mansions to be found here, for they help to define certain styles. Yet the chief focus is not on grand houses but on typical ones - examples that capture the essence of the everyday rather than the extraordinary.

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Recoiling from the mechanization brought by the industrial revolution, late-nineteenth-century designers in England and America urged a return to the fine craftsmanship exemplified by medieval craft guilds. Leaders such as John Ruskin, William Morris, and Gustav Stickley asserted that in honest handwork and spare, simple spaces a life of true beauty could be found. Arts &amp; Crafts brings back the turn-of-the-century era of Morris and Stickley, of bungalows and built-ins, by detailing the period's history and its architecture, designers, furnishings, fashions, arts, and key buildings. It takes us on a tour of the movement's icons: Morris's Red House, Greene and Greene's Gamble House, and Wright's Prairie houses; Rookwood pottery and Tiffany glass; The Craftsman and the Morris chair - all simple yet beautiful designs that never went out of style.

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History & Criticism

Abbeville Pr

Bargain Books are non-returnable. Imagine visiting the greatest works of Maybeck, Morris, Frank Lloyd Wright, Green and Green. Across the country, there are hundreds of places to see classic examples of Arts and Crafts architecture, furniture, and art. The first guidebook of its kind, Arts &amp; Crafts Design in America leads the way to the best of them. Including 250 detailed entries and illustrated with photographs throughout, this unique travel companion describes bungalows and other sites open to the public, noteworthy Arts and Crafts buildings that can be toured or viewed from the street, and museum collections of whole-room interiors and exceptional objects. In addition to listings helpfully organized by state, the authors offer a useful resources section and a general introduction for newcomers to the movement. For enthusiasts, travelers, and collectors, Arts &amp; Crafts Design in America is a captivating tour of this enduring style born abroad but embraced throughout the country.

Arts & Crafts Design in America: A State-By-State Guide

Chronicle Books LLC.

A taste for the romantic, fostered by the novels of Sir Walter Scott and a fondness for the medieval past, spurred the revival of Gothic designs during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As James Massey and Shirley Maxwell show in this fact-filled sampler, Gothic Revival caught the fancy of many Victorians who sought refuge in supposedly simpler days. Picturesque castles and cathedrals with spiky towers, high gabled roofs, and medieval ornament provided just the escape needed from the rigors of the industrial revolution. Gothic Revival recreates the age of Victoria by chronicling the era and its architecture, furnishings, fashions, art, literature, designers, and key buildings, all in an inviting format that brings back the style's heyday from the 1830s to the 1870s.

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House Styles in America: The Old-House Journal Guide to the Architecture of AmericanHomes

House Styles in America: The Old-House Journal Guide to the Architecture of AmericanHomes

Arts & Crafts (Abbeville Stylebooks)

Arts & Crafts Design in America: A State-By-State Guide

Gothic Revival (Abbeville Stylebooks)