For the house lover and the curious tourist, for the house buyer and the weekend stroller, for neighborhood preservation groups and for all who want to know more about their community, here, at last, is a book that makes it both easy and pleasurable to identify the various styles and periods of American domestic architecture. The guide that enables you to identify, and place in their historic and architectural contexts, the houses you see in your travels across America, houses built for American families in city and countryside, from the 17th century to the present.
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