A Field Guide to American Houses
Virginia Savage McAlester attended Radcliffe College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founder member and past president of Preservation Dallas, as well as Friends of Fair Park, a National Historic Landmark support group. She is an emeritus advisor with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is the author of The Making of a Historic District: Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Texas, a 40-page "how-to" booklet issued by the National Trust in 1975 and utilized as a reference by historic groups across the country in constructing their historic districts. She is the coauthor of Dallas: Great American Suburbs and The Homes of the Park Cities.
A Field Guide to American Houses is the totally extended, revised, and newly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely praised handbook to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and widely recognized as the unrivaled, indispensable guide to American houses.
This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods, new and extended categories of house styles with photos and descriptions, an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries," an expanded bibliography, and 600 additional photographs and line drawings.
Author: Virginia Savage McAlester
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