Search Results for: Common Houses In Americas Small Towns

Surveys the types of homes found in twenty American small towns, and discusses house plans, features, and structural forms

Writing in a conversational rather than a scholarly style, with a minimum of footnotes, urban geographer Ford bypasses the usual census data and socioeconomic categories to writes about "real" American cities and buildings--tying together architectural and social history on the one hand, and some fundamental spatial patterns and processes on

Books about Material Culture

A guide to Indiana properties as listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

From the New England saltbox to the Pennsylvania Dutch, from the southern colonial to the western ranch, the American farmhouse is an icon of our history and our traditions of hearth and home, an architectural entity in and of itself, as well as a highly coveted retreat for country dwellers.