1. GENERAL COMPREHENSIVE SURVEYS
Aslet, Clive. The American Country House. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990.
Aslet, Clive, and Powers, Alan. The National Trust Book of the English House. New York: Viking, 1985.
Burchard, John Ely, and Bush-Brown, Albert. The Architecture of America; A Social and Cultural History. Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.
Cook, Olive. The English Country House: An Art and a Way of Life. London: Thames and Hudson, 1974.
Davidson, Marshall B. Notable American Houses. New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1971.
Downing, Antoinette F., and Scully, Vincent J., Jr. The Architectural Heritage of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640-1915. 2nd ed. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1967.
Foley, Mary Mix. The American House. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.
Girouard, Mark. The Victorian Country House. London: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Handlin, David P. American Architecture. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1985.
Historic American Buildings Survey, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. What Style Is It? A Guide to American Architecture. Washington, D.C.: The Preservation Press, 1983.
Jordan, R. Furneaux. A Concise History of Western Architecture. New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
McAlester, Virginia, and McAlester, Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
Morrison, Hugh. Early American Architecture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1952; Dover Publications, 1987.
Moss, Roger W. The American Country House. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1990.
Muthesius, Hermann. The English House. New York: Rizzoli, 1979. (Originally Das englische Haus. Berlin: 1904/5.)
Nicholson, Nigel. The National Trust Book of Great Houses of Britain. London: Granada Publishing, 1983.
Reid, Richard. The Georgian House. London: Bishopgate Press, 1989.
Rifkind, Carole. A Field Guide to American Architecture. New York: New American Library, 1980.
Risebero, Bill. The Story of Western Architecture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979/85.
Roth, Leland M. A Concise History of American Architecture. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
Stamp, Gavin, and Goulancourt, Andre. The English House 1860-1914. U.K.: Faber & Faber, 1986.
Sturgis, Frank E. American Architecture: Westchester County, New York. Croton-on-Hudson, NY: North River Press, 1977.
Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1781. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1969/92.
Walker, Lester. American Shelter, an Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American House. Wood-stock, NY: Overlook Press, 1981.
2. EARLY COLONIAL
Cummings, Abbott Lowell. The Framed House of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725. Cambridge, MA, and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979.
DeStefano, Jim. Antique New England Homes and Barns. Allentown, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2017.
Forman, H. Chandlee. Early Manor Houses and Plantation Houses of Maryland. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Bodine and Associates, 1982.
Forman, H. Chandlee. Maryland Architecture: A Short History from 1634 Through the Civil War. Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1968.
Isham, Norman M., and Brown, Albert F. Early Connecticut Houses. New York: Dover Publications, 1965.
Kelly, J. Frederick. The Early Domestic Architecture of Connecticut. New York: Dover Publications, 1924/63.
Schuler, Stanley. Old New England Homes. Exton, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1984.
3. COLONIAL AND GEORGIAN
Ackerman, James S. Palladio. U.K.: Penguin Books, 1966. Architects’ Emergency Committee. Great Georgian Houses of America. 2 vols. New York: Dover Publications, 1933; 1937/70.
Howells, John Mead. The Architectural Heritage of the Piscataqua. (1937) New York: Architectural Book Publishing, 1965.
Mullins, Lisa C., ed. Architectural Treasures of Early America. 10 vols. Harrisburg, PA: National Historical Society, 1987.
Palladio, Andrea. The Four Books of Architecture. (1738) New York: Dover Publications.
Stoney, Samuel. Plantations of the Carolina Lowlands. New York: Dover Publications.
Whiffen, Marcus. The Eighteenth-Century Houses of Williamsburg. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1984.
4. FEDERAL, NEOCLASSICAL, AND GREEK REVIVAL
Benjamin, Asher. The American Builder’s Companion (1837) New York: Dover Publications.
Hamlin, Talbot. Greek Revival in America. New York: Dover Publications, 1944/64.
Kennedy, Roger G. Architecture, Men, Women, and Money. Cam bridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989.
Kennedy, Roger G. Greek Revival America. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1989.
5. PICTURESQUE AND NINETEENTH CENTURY
Davis, Alexander Jackson. Rural Residences. New York: New York University, 1837; DaCapo Press, 1980.
Downing, Andrew Jackson. Architecture of Country Houses. (1850) New York: Dover Publications, 1969.
Downing, Andrew Jackson. Victorian Cottage Residences. (1842) New York: Dover Publications, 1981.
Fowler, Orson Squire. The Octagon House: A Home for All. (185) New York: Dover Publications, 1953/73.
Girouard, Mark. Sweetness and Light: The Queen Anne Movement, 1860-1900. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977.
Holmes, Kriston, and Watersun, David. The Victorian Express. Wilsonville, OR: Beautiful America Publishing, 1991.
Vaux, Calvert. Villas & Cottages. (1864) New York: Dover Publications, 1970.
Zukowsky, John, and Stimson, Robbe Pierce. Hudson River Villas. New York: Rizzoli, 1985.
6. INDIGENOUS STYLES
Brooks, H. Allen. The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright and His Midwest Contemporaries. New York: W. W. Norton, 1972.
Lancaster, Clay. The American Bungalow, 1880s-1920s. New York: Abbeville Press, 1983.
Scully, Vincent J., Jr. The Shingle Style. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955.
Stickley, Gustav. Craftsman Homes. (Also More Craftsman Homes.) New York: Dover Publications, 1979.
von Holst, H. V. Country and Suburban Homes of the Prairie School Period. New York: Dover Publications, 1913/82.
7. PALATIAL PALACES
Folsom, Merrill. Great American Mansions and Their Stories. New York: Hastings House, 1963.
Hunter, Julius K. Westmoreland and Portland Places: The History and Architecture of America Premier Streets, 1888-1988. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1988.
Junior League of Greenwich. The Great Estates, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1880-1930. Canaan, NH: Phoenix Publishing, 1986.
Lewis, Arnold. American Country Houses of the Gilded Age. New York: Dover Publications, 1886-87/82.
Randall, Monica. The Mansions of Long Island Gold Coast. New York: Hastings House, 1979.
8. REMINISCENT STYLES
Cortissoz, Royal. Introduction to Domestic Architecture (A monograph of the work of Harrie T. Lindeberg). New York: William Helburn, 1940.
Embury, Aymar II. The Dutch Colonial House. New York: McBride, Nast & Company, 1913.
Gowans, Alan. The Comfortable House. Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 1986.
Hewitt, Mark Alan. The Architect & the American Country House 1890-1940. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990.
Hoffstot, Barbara. Landmark Architecture of Palm Beach. rev ed. Pittsburgh: Ober Park Associates, 1980.
Mellor Meigs & Howe. Mellor Meigs & Howe: A Monograph. New York: Architectural Book Publishing, 1923/92.
Morgan, Keith N. Charles A. Platt: The Artist as Architect. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985.
Parrish Art Museum. The Long Island Country House 1870-1930. Southampton, NY: The Parrish Art Museum, 1988.
Sclare, Liisa and Donald. Beaux-Arts Estates: A Guide to the Architecture of Long Island. New York: Viking Press, 1975/79.
9. MODERN ARCHITECTURE
Ford, James, and Morrow, Katherine. The Modern House in America. New York: Architectural Book Publishing, 1940.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, and Johnson, Philip. The International Style. New York: W. W. Norton, 1932/66.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, and Drexler, Arthur. Built in USA: Post War Architecture. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1952.
Joedicke, Jurgen. The History of Modern Architecture. New York: Frederick Praeger, 1959.
Kaufman, Edgar. Fallingwater, A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House. New York: Abbeville Press, 1986.
Mock, Elizabeth B. If You Want to Build a House. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946.
Pevsner, Nikolaus. Pioneers of Modern Design. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1949.
Sergeant, John. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian Houses: The Case for Organic Architecture. New York: Whitney Library of Design—an imprint of Watson-Guptill Publications, 1976.
Wolfe, Tom. From Bauhaus to Our House. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981.
Wright, Frank Lloyd. The Natural House. New York: Horizon Press, 1954.
10. POSTMODERNISM
Jencks, Charles. The Language of Post-Modern Architecture. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1977/84.
Moore, Charles, Allen, Gerald, and Lyndon, Donlyn. The Place of Houses. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974.
Scully, Vincent, Jr. The Shingle Style Today or The Historian’s Revenge. New York: George Braziller, 1974.
Smith, C. Ray. Supermannerism: New Attitudes in Post-Modern Architecture. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1977.
Venturi, Robert. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. (1966) New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977.
11. SPECIAL
Baker, John Milnes, AIA. How to Build a House with an Architect. New York: Harper & Row, 1977/88.
Cragoe, Carole Davidson. How to Read Buildings: A Crash Course in Architectural Styles. New York: Rizzoli, 2008.
Dunn, Alan. Architecture Observed. (laugh lines by America’s fore most cartoon critic) New York: Architectural Record Books, 1971.
Lynes, Russell. The Tastemakers. New York: Dover Publishing, 1980.
National Trust for Historic Preservation. Masterbuilders: A Guide to Famous American Architects. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1985.
Raskin, Eugene. Architecturally Speaking. New York: Bloch Publishing, 1954/66.
Raskin, Eugene. Architecture and People. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1974.
Rybczynski, Witold. Home: A Short History of an Idea. New York: Viking Penguin, 1986.
Smith, A. G. The American House Styles Coloring Book. New York: Dover Publications, 1983.