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Porches of North America / Thomas Durant Visser.
LIBRA NA7125 .V57 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Visser, Thomas Durant, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Porches--United States.
- Porches.
- Porches--Canada.
- Canada.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover : University Press of New England, [2012]
- Contents:
- History
- Covered Approach
- Loggias, Portales, and Corredores
- Monterey Porches
- French Galleries
- Dogtrots
- Dutch Influences
- Stoops and Perrons
- Symbolic Stages
- English and American Piazzas
- Veranda(h)s
- Fashionable Retreats and Final Resorts
- Summer Places
- Most Public Place
- Public Intimacy and Peculiar Privacy
- Photographic Glimpses of Porch Life
- Casinos and Clubhouses
- Screened Porches
- Cure Porches and Sleeping Porches
- Porch Enclosures and Sun Porches
- Changing Attitudes
- Character, Functions, and Furnishings
- Location and Orientation
- Dimensions and Plans
- Twining Edges
- Sounds
- Porch Furniture
- Classical Order
- Porticos and Colonnades
- Georgian
- Neoclassical: Adam, Federal, and Classical Revival
- Regency
- Greek Revival
- Renaissance Revival
- Neoclassical Revival
- Arcades
- Various Forms
- Enclosed Attached Entry Porches
- Open Attached Entry Porches
- Side and Rear Porches
- Charleston Piazzas
- Arcaded Piazzas
- Side-Wing Porches
- Recessed Multitiered Porches
- Gable Loggias
- Attached Multitiered Porches and Galleries
- Lattice Piazzas and Porches
- Shotgun Porches
- Porte-Cocheres
- Marquees
- Victorian Porch Styles
- Gothic Revival
- Rustic
- Bracketed Mode and Italianate Style
- French Second Empire
- Octagons
- Richardsonian Romanesque
- Stick Style
- Queen Anne
- Shingle Style
- Colonial Revival
- Post-Victorian Styles
- Prairie
- American Foursquare
- Mission Revival
- Craftsman Movement
- Bungalows
- Catalogue Porches
- Tudor Revival
- Modern Movement and International Style.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781611682205
- 1611682207
- OCLC:
- 760976173
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