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Great American houses and their architectural styles / Virginia and Lee McAlester ; photographs by Alex McLean ; drawings by Larry Boerder ; floor plans by Carol Boerder-Snyder.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA7205 .M36 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McAlester, Virginia, 1943-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--United States.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Interior decoration--United States.
- Interior decoration.
- Physical Description:
- 348 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Abbeville Press, c1994.
- Contents:
- Colonial houses : Iron Works House, Saugus, Massachusetts : First-period English style
- Lee House, Marblehead, Massachusetts : Georgian style
- Russell House, Charleston, South Carolina : Federal style
- Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia : early classical revival style
- Parlange, New Roads, Louisiana : French colonial style
- Spanish Governor's Palace, San Antonio, Texas : Spanish colonial style
- Romantic houses : Melrose, Natchez, Mississippi : Greek revival style
- Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, New York : Gothic revival style
- Morse-Libby house, Portland, Maine : Italianate style
- Victorian houses : Château-sur-Mer, Newport, Rhode Island : Second Empire style
- Mark Twain House, Hartford, Connecticut : stick style
- Glenmont, West Orange, New Jersey : Queen Anne style
- Naumkeag, Stockbridge, Massachusetts : shingle style
- Glessner House, Chicago, Illinois : Richardsonian Romanesque style
- Eclectic houses : Westbury House, Old Westbury, Long Island, New York : colonial revival style
- Whitehall, Palm Beach, Florida : neoclassical style
- Stan Hywet Hall, Akron, Ohio : Tudor style
- Biltmore, Asheville, North Carolina : châteauesque style
- Vanderbilt House, Hyde Park, New York : beaux arts style
- Falaise, Sands Point, Long Island, New York : French eclectic style
- Vizcaya, Miami, Florida : Italian Renaissance style
- Casa del Herrero, Santa Barbara, California : Spanish eclectic style
- Dana-Thomas House, Springfield, Illinois : prairie style
- Gamble House, Pasadena, California : craftsman style
- Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts : international style.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-337) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Guy Garrison.
- ISBN:
- 1558597506 :
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