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Identifying American architecture: A pictorial guide to styles and terms, 1600-1945
Identifying American architecture A pictorial guide to styles and terms 16001945 Author:John J. G Blumenson This guide enables the reader to identify various styles and architectural terms by comparing real buildings with the book's photographs. Intended primarily for tourists and travellers, it covers a wide variety of styles including Spanish, colonial, prairie, Georgian and international. The book also explores details such as rooves, porches, wind... more »ows and chimneys. In order to provide the reader with a compact handbook, the text is kept to a minimum and only the exteriors of buildings are discussed. The emphasis throughout is on domestic architecture rather than museums, monuments or commercial and public buildings.« less