SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

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.