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Virginia Savage McAlester

    Virginia Savage McAlester is an American author and architectural historian renowned for her foundational work on American homes. Her influential writings serve as a definitive guide to understanding the diverse styles of American housing. Through her work, she champions the preservation and appreciation of architectural heritage, offering readers deep insights into the evolution of domestic architecture.

    A Field Guide to American Houses
    A Field Guide To American Houses, A
    • 2015

      A Field Guide To American Houses, A

      • 880 pages
      • 31 hours of reading
      4.6(179)Add rating

      The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses. This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.

      A Field Guide To American Houses, A
    • 1984

      A Field Guide to American Houses

      • 525 pages
      • 19 hours of reading

      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. Book was reprinted in 2006

      A Field Guide to American Houses