A Field Guide to America's Historic Neighborhoods and Museum Houses: The Western States - Softcover

McAlester, Virginia; McAlester, A. Lee

 
9780375701726: A Field Guide to America's Historic Neighborhoods and Museum Houses: The Western States
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0375701729 ISBN 13: 9780375701726
Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

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An architectural history of the American West is chronicled in a study of remarkable old houses and historic neighborhoods, offering concise profiles of the architecture and history of some of the cities, towns, neighborhoods, and homes of the region. Simultaneous. 35,000 first printing.

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Virginia McAlester is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College and attended Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member and past president of Preservation Dallas (formerly called the Historic Preservation League, Inc.) and of Friends of Fair Park, a support group for the Fair Park National Historic Landmark in Dallas, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. She serves on the Dallas Landmark Commission and is an Adviser Emeritus of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Lee McAlester, a geologist by profession, is Chairman of the Geology Department at Southern Methodist University and was formerly Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences there. He is the author of several geology textbooks as well as numerous scientific monographs and papers. He has an active interest in architectura

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mestic
architecture in the cities and towns
of the American West

In this new, information-packed field guide, the authors of the perennially popular A Field Guide to American Houses--the book that taught us how to identify architectural styles--now show us houses well worth looking at and the neighborhoods in which we can find many of them, in 110 cities and towns in seventeen western states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
The 172 historic neighborhoods covered contain hundreds of interesting dwellings that can be viewed, without ceremony, from the street--and almost 200 museum houses of particular architectural and/or artistic significance whose interiors can be visited.
The book is organized alphabetically by state, and by cities and towns within each state. An introduction to each city or town (together with descriptions of

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Verlag
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0375701729
ISBN 13 
9780375701726
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
735
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