Virginia and Lee McAlester have both avocational and professional interests in architecture. Virginia, a Radcliffe graduate, attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member and past president of the Historic Preservation League, Inc. (Dallas), and for nine years was Texas Advisor and a member of the Administrative Committee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is co-author of The Making of a Historic District: Swiss Avenue. Lee, a geologist, is a professor at Southern Methodist University and was formerly Dean of the School of Humanities. From 1960 to 1973 he was Professor of Geology at Yale University. He has an active hobby interest in architectural history and has been involved in historic preservation in New England, Georgia, and the Southwest. The McAlesters live in Dallas, Texas.
How to Use This Book
Preface
Looking at American Houses
Style: The Fashions of American Houses
Form: The Shapes of American Houses
Structure: The Anatomy of American Houses
Pictorial Key and Glossary
Folk Houses
Native American
Pre-Railroad
National
Colonial Houses (1600-1820)
Postmedieval English
Dutch Colonial
French Colonial
Spanish Colonial
Georgian
Adam
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)
Anglo-American, English, and French Period Houses
Colonial Revival
Neoclassical
Tudor
Chateauesque
Beaux Arts
French Eclectic
Mediterranean Period Houses
Italian Renaissance
Mission
Spanish Eclectic
Monterey
Pueblo Revival
Modern Houses
Prairie
Craftsman
Modernistic
International
American Houses Since 1940
Modern
Neoeclectic
Contemporary Folk
For Further Reference
Index
How to Use This Book
Preface
Looking at American Houses
Style: The Fashions of American Houses
Form: The Shapes of American Houses
Structure: The Anatomy of American Houses
Pictorial Key and Glossary
Folk Houses
Native American
Pre-Railroad
National
Colonial Houses (1600-1820)
Postmedieval English
Dutch Colonial
French Colonial
Spanish Colonial
Georgian
Adam
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)
Anglo-American, English, and French Period Houses
Colonial Revival
Neoclassical
Tudor
Chateauesque
Beaux Arts
Fren
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