American House Designs: An Index to Popular and Trade Periodicals, 1850-1915 (Art Reference Collection) [Hardcover]

Margaret Culbertson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0313292027 | ISBN-13: 978-0313292026 | Publication Date: November 21, 1994 | Edition: annotated edition

Providing access to over 6,500 house designs published between 1850 and 1915, this work is indexed by architects' or designers' names as well as by the geographic location of each house when given in the periodical. It also includes a geographic index of architects, an annotated bibliography of the periodicals indexed, and an illustrated section with samples of the designs included in the index.

Editorial Reviews

Review

.,."an important bibliography for students of American domestic or vernacular architecture....The importance of this work is that it makes readily available access to popular turn of the century house designs by pattern book architects, low profile architects and local architects in remote locations who have seldom been acknowledged by the professional architectural journals. The history of domestic architecture as written in the journals which Culbertson indexes is the story of architecture as a consumer commodity rather than as a fine art and helps explain the townscape of virtually every small town in the United States. Scholars of vernacular architecture and regional historians will find this bibliography valuable in their work."-H-NET

Book Description

Providing access to more than 2,000 architects and designers and thousands of illustrations of houses, most of which are not indexed elsewhere.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 360 pages
• Publisher: Greenwood; annotated edition edition (November 21, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0313292027
• ISBN-13: 978-0313292026
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.7 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,940,725 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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