![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Important economic, social, and governmental policies are included in each chapter, as well as their impact on the design of houses and the landscape of the city. The biggest changes are the new comprehensive chapter on neighborhood development from the late nineteenth century to the present and an expanded post-1940 chapter that includes the first decade of the new millennium. Longtime users will find the same simple line drawings and annotated photographs that appeared in the first edition. This book is the workhorse and go-to guidebook for writing residential architectural descriptions for National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nominations and compliance-driven NRHP eligibility analyses. The first edition, published in 1984 and in print since its release, is in the library of every preservation architect, State Historic Preservation Office, historic preservation specialist, and educator and serves the professional and advocate with an illustrated and comprehensive architectural vocabulary and a national historic context. This book is the long-awaited second edition of the nationally recognized standard for identifying American domestic architectural styles. A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture. ![]()
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