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The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses.

This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.

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  • Title A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture
  • Author Virginia Savage McAlester
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition EXP REV
  • Pages 880
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group
  • Publication date 2015-11-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780375710827 / 0375710825
  • Weight 4.05 lbs (1.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.8 x 1.7 in (23.11 x 17.27 x 4.32 cm)
  • Category Architecture
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, Architecture, Domestic - United States
  • Dewey Decimal Code 728.097

About the author

VIRGINIA McALESTER, was educated at Radcliffe and attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member and past president of Preservation Dallas and also of Friends of Fair Park, the support group for a National Historic Landmark. She serves as an advisor emeritus for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is the author of The Making of a Historic District: Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Texas, a 40-page booklet "how-to" published by the National Trust in 1975 that historic groups across the country have used as a guide in creating their historic districts. She is coauthor of The Homes of the Park Cities, Dallas: Great American Suburbs.
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