Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles

A sumptuously illustrated, authoritative advent to the important architectural and adorning types of the American space, from Colonial occasions to the mid-20th century.

In this lavishly produced quantity, authors Virginia and Lee McAlester discover remarkable landmark Homes that exemplify The united states’s best architectural and inner layout types from Colonial occasions to the mid-20th century. Those twenty-five Homes are illustrated with greater than 350 particularly commissioned complete-colour images of inner and external perspectives, 125 black-and-white line drawings and flooring plans, historic artwork, and antique images.

The textual content now not most effective discusses the homes architectural inventions and layout components but in addition profiles the architects and their purchasers. The featured Homes had been constructed by way of some of the usa’s prime architects—from Alexander Jackson Davis, Richard Morris Hunt, Henry Hobson Richardson, and McKim, Mead and White to Frank Lloyd Wright, the Greene brothers, and Walter Gropius—and owned by way of a few of its such a lot celebrated electorate, together with Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Jay Gould, the Guggenheim’s, the Phippses’, and the Vanderbilt’s. In consequence, the guide is as so much a cultural historical past as it’s an architectural take a look at. The authors additionally come with an informative dialogue of each and every taste as it may be observed in vernacular variations across the usa.

Located all over the place the USA, some of the featured Homes are open to the general public, and the guide supplies their addresses and different useful knowledge for guests. Great American Homes and Their Architectural Styles might be impossible to resist to all space fans, architects, and architects, and can supply readers a deeper figuring out and appreciation of our wealthy architectural {heritage|historical past|background}.