Author: Ralph E. CarpenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Fifty Best Historic American Houses
Author: Ralph E. CarpenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Fifty Houses
Author: Sandy SorlienPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801870620
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In 1988, photographer Sandy Sorlien set out on a series of journeys to document the rich architectural heritage that America is losing to the cheap and banal design aesthetic of tract housing, strip malls, and big-box stores. Her seven-year odyssey took her over 90,000 miles of back roads to every state in the Union in search of homes that reflect and define the region in which they stand. After making over a thousand house portraits, Sorlien has chosen one representative image from each state and collected them in this volume.
Fifty Houses
Author: Sandy SorlienPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
In 1988, photographer Sandy Sorlien set out on a series of journeys to document the rich architectural heritage that America is losing to the cheap and banal design aesthetic of tract housing, strip malls, and big-box stores. Her seven-year odyssey took her over 90,000 miles of back roads to every state in the Union in search of homes that reflect and define the region in which they stand. After making over a thousand house portraits, Sorlien has chosen one representative image from each state and collected them in this volume.
Celebrating the American Home
Author: Joanne Kellar BouknightPublisher: Taunton
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Each house is showcased in four to six pages and shown from a variety of views, with a brief introductory text explaining what makes the house unique and color photographs illustrating the key design features. Sidebars elaborate why the architects selected each house.
Writings on American History
Author: A Field Guide to American Houses
Author: Virginia McAlesterPublisher: Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
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.
Historic Houses of Early America
Author: Elise LathropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Houses and Homes
Author: Barbara J. HowePublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780761989295
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This volume in the Nearby History series helps the reader document the history of a home. The reader will learn to examine written records, oral testimonies, visual sources, and the house's surroundings. The author covers American housing patterns, the individual characteristics of houses in different regions, construction techniques and materials, household technology, and family life styles. Houses and Homes is Volume 2 in The Nearby History Series.
The Publishers Weekly
Author: State Houses
Author: Susan W. ThranePublisher: Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
ISBN: 9781550464573
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A magnificent celebration of America's state capitol buildings. These glorious buildings are, in the author's words, "the homes of history," where laws are passed, where democracy is enacted, where history is written. Though each state capitol bears some similarity to the other forty-nine, each in its architecture and design reflects uniquely the pride of its state, both culturally and historically. For this unprecedented project, photographer Tom Patterson traveled to each of America's fifty state capitals to capture the architectural beauty and dignity of its capitol building in glorious large-format color images. Writer Susan W. Thrane reveals fascinating details about each capitol building's beginnings: the events surrounding construction background on its architects and builders dimensions and costs primary features and main rooms unique furnishings and works of art. The book also discusses important moments in the history of each building and the state itself, including: the origin of the state's name its capital city when the state was admitted to the Union, and the number of members in its legislative bodies.