Download or read book The Fifty Best Historic American Houses written by Ralph E. Carpenter (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fifty Best Historic American Houses written by Ralph E. Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fifty Best Historic American Houses written by Ralph E. Carpenter (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fifty Best Historical American Houses written by RALPH E. CARPENTER and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Historic Houses of America written by Phyllis Lee Levin and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the lavish furnishings and history of fifty outstanding American homes including Mount Vernon, Monticello and the Hermitage.
Download or read book Fifty Houses written by Sandy Sorlien and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988, photographer Sandy Sorlien set out on a series of journeys to document the rich architectural heritage that America is losing to the cheap and banal design aesthetic of tract housing, strip malls, and big-box stores. Her seven-year odyssey took her over 90,000 miles of back roads to every state in the Union in search of homes that reflect and define the region in which they stand. After making over a thousand house portraits, Sorlien has chosen one representative image from each state and collected them in this volume.
Download or read book The American Heritage History of Notable American Houses written by Marshall B. Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of life in America in terms of the houses Americans have planned, built, and lived in. From this we can reconstruct the growth of ideas, of cultural patterns, and of practical expedients that have led to the problems and possibilities that are our present inheritance.
Download or read book Historic Houses of Early America written by Elise Lathrop and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America s Historic Houses and Restorations written by Irvin Haas and published by New York : Hawthorn Books. This book was released on 1967 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Houses and Homes written by Barbara J. Howe and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Nearby History series helps the reader document the history of a home. The reader will learn to examine written records, oral testimonies, visual sources, and the house's surroundings. The author covers American housing patterns, the individual characteristics of houses in different regions, construction techniques and materials, household technology, and family life styles. Houses and Homes is Volume 2 in The Nearby History Series.
Download or read book Historic Homes of America written by Ernest Wood and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs illustrating the exteriors and interiors of a collection of homes that express America's architectural heritage.
Download or read book Yesterday s Houses of Tomorrow written by H. Ward Jandl and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Field Guide to America s Historic Neighborhoods and Museum Houses written by Virginia McAlester and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the authors of the perennially popular "A Field Guide to American Houses" comes an encyclopedic reference covering the history and architecture of the American West, as told via its surviving old houses and neighborhoods. 300+ illustrations. 175 maps.
Download or read book Historic Houses of Queens written by Rob MacKay and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queens, New York, boasts a rich history that includes dozens of poorly publicized but historically impressive houses. A mix of farmsteads, mansions, seaside escapes, and architecturally significant community dwellings, these homes were owned by America's forefathers, nouveau riche industrialists, Wall Street tycoons, and prominent African American entertainers from the Jazz Age. Rufus King, a senator and the youngest signer of the US Constitution, operated a large family farm in Jamaica, while piano manufacturer extraordinaire William Steinway lived in a 27-room, granite and bluestone Italianate villa in Astoria. Local musicians include Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, and Lena Horne. Through more than 200 photographs, Historic Houses of Queens explores the borough's most notable residences--their architecture, owners, surrounding neighborhoods, peculiarities, and even their fates as some vanished due to financial problems or fires.
Download or read book Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles written by Lee McAlester and published by Abbeville Publishing Group. This book was released on 1995-01-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book State Houses written by Susan W. Thrane and published by Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent celebration of America's state capitol buildings. These glorious buildings are, in the author's words, "the homes of history," where laws are passed, where democracy is enacted, where history is written. Though each state capitol bears some similarity to the other forty-nine, each in its architecture and design reflects uniquely the pride of its state, both culturally and historically. For this unprecedented project, photographer Tom Patterson traveled to each of America's fifty state capitals to capture the architectural beauty and dignity of its capitol building in glorious large-format color images. Writer Susan W. Thrane reveals fascinating details about each capitol building's beginnings: the events surrounding construction background on its architects and builders dimensions and costs primary features and main rooms unique furnishings and works of art. The book also discusses important moments in the history of each building and the state itself, including: the origin of the state's name its capital city when the state was admitted to the Union, and the number of members in its legislative bodies.
Download or read book A Field Guide to American Houses written by Virginia McAlester and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 1984 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guide that enables you to identify, and place in their historic and architectural contexts, the houses you see in your neighborhood or in your travels across America. 17th century to the present.
