American Domestic Architecture

Scope: This guide is a bibliography of selected resources on the history and design of domestic architecture in the United States available from the University of Maryland Libraries. For more information, please see a reference librarian

Table of Contents

• Reference
  Bibliographies | Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | Guidebooks and Directories | Catalogs | Indexes

  Periodicals

  Print Resources

  • Monographic Series
  • Books
    • General Topics
      Histories and surveys | Home builder catalogs | Contemporary American houses

      American Houses by Type

      Apartment houses and row houses | Bungalows | Country houses |

      Farmhouses and ranch houses | Hillside and mountain houses | Log cabins |

      Mail order homes | Mansions | Pattern book homes | Small houses | Vacation houses

      American Houses by Style

      Arts and Crafts/Craftsman | Cape Cod | Colonial | Federal | Georgian | Gothic Revival |

      Greek Revival | Prairie | Shingle Style | Spanish Colonial | Victorian

      American Houses by Region

      Northeast/New England | Northwest | South/Southeast | West/Southwest

  Online Resources

  Related Architecture Library Guides

Reference

Bibliographies

• Carrington, Merrill Ware. Design Guidelines: An Annotated Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Arts, 1977.
  NTL FOLIO NA7205.C37 1977

  Cuthbert, John A., et al. Vernacular Architecture in America: A Selective Bibliography. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1985.

  ARCH REF STACKS NA705.C87 1985

  NTL STACKS NA705.C87 1985

  Draper, Joan E. American Dwellings in the 19th and 20th Centuries: A Bibliography. Chicago: Council of Planning Librarians, 1987.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.D72 1987

  Harmon, Robert B. Carpenter Gothic and Nineteenth Century Ornamented Houses in America: A Selected Bibliography. Monticello, Ill.: Vance, 1979.

  ARCH FOLIO NA3503.7.H3

  Marshall, Howard Wight. American Folk Architecture: A Selected Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1981.

  NTL FOLIO NA705.M35 1981

  McGough, Melinda. A Selected Bibliography: National Trust Historic Museums and Collections. Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1980.

  NTL FOLIO NA7205.M34 1980

  Thomson, Ellen M. Color in American Domestic Architecture, 1650-1913: A Bibliography. Monticello, Ill.: Vance, 1990.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.T48 1990

  NTL STACKS NA7205.T48 1990

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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• Blumenson, John J.-G. Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History; New York: Norton, 1981.
  ARCH REF STACKS NA705.B55 1981
  ARCH STACKS NA705.B55 1981

  Carley, Rachel. The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture. New York: Holt, 1994.

  ARCH REF STACKS NA7205.C27 1994

  Greene, Fayal. The Anatomy of a House: A Picture Dictionary of Architectural and Design Elements. New York: Doubleday, 1991.

  ARCH REF STACKS NA2840.G74 1991

  Phillips, Steven J. Old-House Dictionary: An Illustrated Guide to American Domestic Architecture, 1600-1940. Lakewood, Colo.: American Source Books, 1989.

  ARCH REF STACKS NA7205.P48 1989

  NTL STACKS NA7205.P48 1989

  Walker, Lester. American Shelter: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home. Woodstock: Overlook, 1981.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.W34

  NTL FOLIO NA7205.W34

  Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780: A Guide to the Styles. Rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992.

  ARCH REF STACKS NA705.W47 1992

  ARCH STACKS NA705.W47 1992

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Guidebooks and Directories

• Eastman, John. Who Lived Where: A Biographical Guide to Homes and Museums. New York: Facts on File, 1983.
  MCKREF STACKS E159.E23
  MCK STACKS E159.E23
  NTL STACKS E159.E23

  Massey, James C., and Shirley Maxwell. House Styles in America: The Old-House Journal Guide to the Architecture of American Homes. New York: Penguin Studio, 1996.

  ARCH REF STACKS NA7205.M33 1996

  NTL STACKS NA7205.M33 1996

  McAlester, Virginia, and Lee McAlester. A Field Guide to America's Historic Neighborhoods and Museum Houses: The Western States. New York: Knopf, 1998.

  ARCH REF STACKS NA7223.M33 1998

  McAlester, Virginia, and Lee McAlester. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Knopf, 1984.

  ARCH REF STACKS NA7205.M35 1984

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.M35 1984

  NTL STACKS NA7205.M35 1984

  Walker, Patricia Chambers, and Thomas Graham. Directory of Historic House Museums in the United States. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira, 1999.

  ARCH REF FOLIO E159.W29 1999

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Catalogs

• Historic American Buildings Survey. Catalog of the Measured Drawings and Photographs of the Survey in the Library of Congress, March 1, 1941. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1941.
  ARCH REF STACKS NA707.H45 1941 and suppl.

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Indexes

• America: History and Life.
  Online: via ABC-CLIO
  Print: MCK FOLIO Z1236.A48 v.1-35 (1955/1963-1998)

  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals.

  Online: via Eureka

  Print: ARCH REF FOLIO Z5941.C6 1973 suppl. no.1-16 (1975-1995)

  Culbertson, Margaret. American House Designs: An Index to Popular and Trade Periodicals, 1850-1915. Westport: Greenwood, 1994.

  ARCH REF STACKS NA7207.C85 1994

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Periodicals

• American Country Houses of Today.
  ARCH FOLIO NA7610.A6 1912,1915,1917,1922,1927,1930,1935

  Classic American Home.

  Online: via EBSCOhost MasterFILE Premier, Vol. 26, no. 1 (Feb./Mar. 2000)-

  Clem Labine's Period Homes.

  NTL CURPER Vol. 1, no. 2 (Summer 2000)-

  Early American Homes.

  Online: via EBSCOhost MasterFILE Premier, Vol. 27 no. 4, Aug. 1996-

  Print: NTL PERSTK E162.E219 Vol. 27, no. 3 (Jun. 1996)-Vol. 31 (2000)

  Continued as Early American Life, Vol. 32 (2001)-

  Record Houses.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7100.A67 1956-1963,1966-1980,1982-1988

  MCK FOLIO NA7100.A67 1965,1968,1971-1973,1975-1981,1983,1985-1987

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Print Resources

Monographic Series

• The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs. Ed. Russell F. Whitehead. St. Paul: White Pine Bureau, 1915-1924; New York: Whitehead, 1925-1928.
  This bi-monthly periodical series covers the architecture of the American colonies and the early republic. To locate individual monographs, search the series title as a "series browse" in VICTORWeb, the online catalog.
  ARCH REF FOLIO NA1.W6 v.1-14 (1915-1928)
  NTL FOLIO NA1.W6 v.1-14 (1915-1928)

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Books

General Topics

Histories and Surveys
• The American House: Design for Living. Washington, DC: American Institute of Architects, 1992.
  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.A66 1992 v. 1

  Clark, Clifford Edward, Jr. The American Family Home, 1800-1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.C58 1986

  NTL STACKS NA7205.C58 1986

  Davidson, Marshall B. The American Heritage History of Notable American Houses. New York: American Heritage Pub. Co., 1971.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.D3

  MD FOLIO NA7205.D3

  NTL FOLIO NA7205.D3

  RARE KAPFOL NA7205.D3

  De Vido, Alfredo. House Design: Art and Practice. New York: Wiley, 1996.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.D365 1996

  Gowans, Alan. The Comfortable House: North American Suburban Architecture, 1890-1930. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7571.G68 1986

  Home Sweet Home: American Domestic Vernacular Architecture. Eds. Charles W. Moore, et al. Los Angeles: Craft and Folk Art Museum; New York: Rizzoli, 1983.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.H66 1983

  Houses and Homes: Exploring Their History. Barbara J. Howe, et al. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 1997.

  MCK STACKS E180.H68 1997

  Howard, Hugh. How Old Is This House?: A Skeleton Key to Dating, Identifying, and Understanding Three Centuries of the American House. New York: Farrar, 1989.

  NTL STACKS NA7205.H73 1989

  Hunter, Christine. Ranches, Rowhouses, and Railroad Flats: American Homes: How They Shape Our Landscapes and Neighborhoods. New York: Norton, 1999.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.H78 1999

  Ierley, Merritt. Open House: A Guided Tour of the American Home, 1637-Present. New York: Holt, 1999.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.I35 1999

  Isham, Norman Morrison. Early American Houses; and, A Glossary of Colonial Architectural Terms. New York: Da Capo, 1967.

  ARCH STACKS NA7206.I7 1967

  HBK STOR NA7206.I7 1967

  Jakle, John A., et al. Common Houses in America's Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.J34 1989

  NTL STACKS NA7205.J34 1989

  Kelly, Barbara M. Expanding the American Dream: Building and Rebuilding Levittown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.

  ARCH STACKS NA7571.K44 1993

  Kemp, Jim. American Vernacular: Regional Influences in Architecture and Interior Design. New York: Viking, 1987.

  NTL STACKS NA7205.K46 1987

  Kimball, Fiske. Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic. New York: Dover, 1966.

  ARCH FOLIO NA707.K45 1966

  NTL FOLIO NA707.K45 1966

  Langdon, Philip. American Houses. New York: Stewart, 1987.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.L35 1987

  Levin, Phyllis Lee. Great Historic Houses of America. New York: Coward-McCann, 1970.

  ARCH FOLIO E159.L48 1970

  NTL FOLIO E159.L48 1970

  Plummer, Henry. The Potential House: Three Centuries of American Dwelling. Tokyo: A + U, 1989.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.P47 1989

  Wentling, James W. Housing by Lifestyle: The Component Method of Residential Design. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.W46 1995

  Wiencek, Henry. Old Houses. New York: Stewart, 1991.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.G764 1991

  Williams, Henry Lionel, and Ottalie K. Williams. A Guide to Old American Houses, 1700-1900. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1962.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.W5

  Home Builder Catalogs

  Comstock, William T. Turn-of-the-Century House Designs: With Floor Plans, Elevations, and Interior Details of 24 Residences. New York: Dover, 1994. Reprint of Suburban and Country Homes, 1893.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7571.S84 1994

  NTL FOLIO NA7571.S84 1994

  Ford, James, and Katherine Morrow Ford. Classic Modern Homes of the Thirties: 64 Designs by Neutra, Gropius, Breuer, Stone, and Others. New York: Dover, 1989. Reprint of The Modern House in America, 1940.

  ARCH FOLIO/NTL FOLIO NA7208.F6 1989

  Keefe, Charles S., ed. The American House; Being a Collection of Illustrations & Plans of the Best Country & Suburban Houses Built in the United States During the Last Few Years. New York: U.P.C., 1922.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7130.K4

  Loizeaux. Classic Houses of the Twenties. Philadelphia: Athenaeum; New York: Dover, 1992. Reprint of Loizeaux's Plan Book No. 7, 1927.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.J24 1992

  Modern Homes: Their Design and Construction: A Collection of Home Designs with Plans & Details. Chicago: American Builder, 1931.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7208.M56 1931

  Palliser, George. George Palliser's Modern Buildings... . New York: J.S. Ogilvie, 1901.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7208.P25 1901a

  Shoppell, R.W., et al. Turn-of-the-Century Houses, Cottages, and Villas: Floor Plans and Line Illustrations of 118 Homes from Shoppell's Catalogs. New York: Dover, 1983.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7207.T87 1983

  NTL FOLIO NA7207.T87 1983

  Woodward, George E., and Edward G. Thompson. Woodward's National Architect... . New York: Da Capo, 1975. Reprint of the 1869 edition.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.W66 1975

  NTL FOLIO NA7205.W66 1975

  Contemporary American Houses

  Breeze, Carla. Architecture: The New Modern. New York: Architecture and Interior Design Library, 1995.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7208.B74 1995

  Doubilet, Susan, and Daralice Boles. American House Now: Contemporary Architectural Directions. New York: Universe, 1997.

  ARCH STACKS NA7208.D68 1997

  Frampton, Kenneth. American Masterworks: The Twentieth Century House. New York: Rizzoli, 1995.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7208.F68 1995

  Jandl, H. Ward. Yesterday's Houses of Tomorrow: Innovative American Homes, 1850 to 1950. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1991.

  ARCH STACKS NA7207.J36 1991

  NTL STACKS NA7207.J36 1991

  Lyon, Hortense. American Contemporary Houses. Paris: Telleri, 1998.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7208.L96 1998

  Modern American Houses: Four Decades of Award-Winning Design in Architectural Record. Ed. Clifford A. Pearson. New York: Abrams, 1996.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7208.M57 1996

  The New American Cottage: Innovations in Small-Scale Residential Architecture. Eds. James Grayson Trulove and Il Kim. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1999.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7208.N44 1999

  The New American House: Innovations in Residential Design and Construction: 30 Case Studies. Ed. Oscar Riera Ojeda. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1995.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7208.N45 1995

  The New American House 2: Innovations in Residential Design and Construction: 30 Case Studies. Ed. Oscar Riera Ojeda. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1997.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7208.N45 1997

  Vercelloni, Matteo. New American Houses: Country, Sea & Cities. Milano: L'Archivolto, 1997.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.V47 1997

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American Houses by Type

• Holl, Steven. Rural & Urban House Types in North America. New York: Pamphlet Architecture, 1982.
  ARCH STACKS NA7203.H64 1982

  Apartment Houses and Row Houses

  Gorlin, Alexander. The New American Town House. New York: Rizzoli, 1999.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7208.G67 1999

  Irvine, Chippy. The Town House. Toronto; New York: Bantam, 1988.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.I78 1988

  Lockwood, Charles. Bricks & Brownstone: The New York Row House, 1783-1929, An Architectural & Social History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7238.N6L66

  NTL FOLIO NA7238.N6L66

  The New American Apartment: Innovations in Residential Design and Construction: 30 Case Studies. Ed. Oscar Riera Ojeda. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1997.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7861.N48 1997

  Nolon, John, and Duo Dickinson. Common Walls/Private Homes: Multiresidential Design. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7520.N6 1990

  Bungalows

  Comstock, William Phillips, and Clarence Eaton Schermerhorn. Bungalows, Camps, and Mountain Houses. Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Architects Press, 1990. Reprint of the 1915 edition.

  ARCH STACKS NA7571.C7 1990

  NTL STACKS NA7571.C7 1990

  Grow, Lawrence. The Old House Book of Cottages and Bungalows. Pittstown, N.J.: Main Street, 1987.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7561.G76 1987

  Lancaster, Clay. The American Bungalow, 1880-1930. New York: Abbeville, 1985.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7571.L36 1985

  Winter, Robert. American Bungalow Style. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7571.W557 1996

  Country Houses

  Artistic Country-Seats: Types of Recent American Villa and Cottage Architecture, with Instances of Country Club-Houses. Ed. George William Sheldon. 2 vols. New York: Da Capo, 1979. Reprint of the 1886-87 edition.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7610.A8 1979

  Aslet, Clive. The American Country House. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

  ARCH STACKS NA7561.A81 1990

  NTL STACKS NA7561.A81 1990

  Comstock, William T. Country Houses and Seaside Cottages of the Victorian Era. New York: Dover, 1989. Reprint of American Cottages, 1883.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7561.C65 1989

  NTL FOLIO NA7561.C65 1989

  Country Patterns, 1841-1883: A Sampler of American Country Home & Landscape Designs from Original 19th Century Sources. Ed. Donald J. Berg. Rev. 2nd ed. New York: Sterling, 1990.

  NTL FOLIO NA7561.C68 1990

  Grow, Lawrence. The Old House Book of Classic Country Houses: Plans for Traditional American Dwellings. Pittstown, N.J.: Main Street, 1988.

  ARCH STACKS NA707.O44 1988

  NTL STACKS NA707.O44 1988

  Hewitt, Mark Alan. The Architect & the American Country House, 1890-1940. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7561.H4 1990

  Moss, Roger W. The American Country House. New York: Holt, 1991.

  ARCH STACKS NA7561.M67 1991

  Farmhouses and Ranch Houses

  Irvine, Chippy. The Farmhouse. Toronto; New York: Bantam, 1987.

  ARCH FOLIO NA8208.5.I78 1987

  NTL FOLIO NA8208.5.I78 1987

  Kauffman, Henry J. The American Farmhouse. New York: Hawthorn, 1975.

  ARCH FOLIO NA8210.K38 1975

  McMurry, Sally. Families and Farmhouses in Nineteenth-Century America: Vernacular Design and Social Change. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.

  ARCH STACKS NA8208.5.M36 1997

  Peterson, Fred W. Homes in the Heartland: Balloon Frame Farmhouses of the Upper Midwest, 1850-1920. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992.

  ARCH STACKS TH4920.P48 1992

  NTL STACKS TH4920.P48 1992

  Sunset Western Ranch Houses. Santa Monica: Hennessey + Ingalls, 1999.

  ARCH STACKS NA7127.S92 1999

  Hillside and Mountain Houses

  Rouillard, Dominique. Building the Slope: Hillside Houses, 1920-1960. Trans. Ronald A. Masi. Santa Monica: Arts + Architecture, 1987.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.R68 1987

  Log Cabins

  Thiede, Cindy Teipner, and Arthur Thiede. The Log Home Book: Design, Past & Present. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1993.

  ARCH STACKS NA8470.T49 1993

  Weslager, C.A. The Log Cabin in America: From Pioneer Days to the Present. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1969.

  ARCH STACKS NA7206.W4

  MD STACKS NA7206.W4

  NTL STACKS NA7206.W4

  Mail Order Homes

  Cabin John Mail-Order Homes Historic District. College Park: University of Maryland School of Architecture, 1987.

  ARCH FOLIO TH4819.P7C23 1987

  The Jandl-Stevenson Collection: Sears, Roebuck Mail-Order Houses.

  Available through the National Trust Library.

  Joselow, Evie T. The Ideal Catalogue House: Mail-Order Architecture and Consumer Culture, 1914-1930. Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1998.

  NTL STACKS TH4819.P7J67 1998a

  King, Marina. Sears Mail-Order House Survey in Prince George's County, Maryland. Upper Marlboro, Md.: M-NCPPC, 1988.

  NTL FOLIO TH4819.P7K56 1988

  Stevenson, Katherine Cole, and H. Ward Jandl. Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1986.

  ARCH STACKS TH4819.P7S74 1986

  NTL STACKS TH4819.P7S74 1986

  Schweitzer, Robert, and Michael W.R. Davis. America's Favorite Homes: Mail-Order Catalogues as a Guide to Popular Early 20th-Century Houses. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.S36 1990

  NTL STACKS NA7205.S36 1990

  Catalogs
  • Aladdin Company. Aladdin "Built in a Day" House Catalog, 1917. New York: Dover, 1995.
    ARCH FOLIO NA8480.A6 1995
    NTL STACKS NA8480.A6 1995

    Aladdin Company. Aladdin Homes. Bay City, Mich.: The Company.

    NTL STACKS NA8480.N61 no. 29 1917

    NTL STACKS NA8480.N61 no. 32 1920

    NTL STACKS NA8480.N61 no. 37 1925

    NTL STACKS NA8480.N61 no. 44 1931

    Aladdin Company. Aladdin Readi-cut Houses. Bay City, Mich.: Aladdin Co., 1928.

    NTL STACKS NA8480.N7 1928

    C.H. Robinson (Firm). Robinson's Money-Saving Mill-Made Cut-to-Fit Houses. Providence, R.I.: C.H. Robinson, 1914.

    NTL STACKS TH4819.P7C22 1914

    E.F. Hodgson Co. Hodgson Houses and Outdoor Equipment for Your Country Home. Boston: E.F. Hodgson Co., 1933.

    NTL STACKS NA7561.E2 1933

    Gordon-Van Tine Co. 117 House Designs of the Twenties. Philadelphia: Athenaeum; New York: Dover, 1992. Reprint of the 1923 edition.

    ARCH FOLIO NA7208.A12 1992

    NTL FOLIO NA7208.A12 1992

    Harris Brothers Co. A Plan Book of Harris Homes. Chicago: The Company, 1918.

    NTL STACKS TH4819.P7H27 1918

    Montgomery Ward & Co. Wardway Homes. Chicago: Montgomery Ward, 1924.

    NTL STACKS TH4819.P7M66 1924

    North American Construction Company. Aladdin Houses. Bay City, Mich.: North American Construction Co.

    NTL STACKS NA8480.N6 no. 18 1910

    NTL STACKS NA8480.N6 no. 26 1915

    Ray H. Bennett Lumber Co., Inc. Bennett's Small House Catalog, 1920. New York: Dover, 1993.

    ARCH FOLIO NA7205.B43 1993

    NTL FOLIO NA7205.B43 1993

    Ready Built House Company. Ready Built Buildings. Portland, Or.: Ready Built House Co., 1915.

    NTL STACKS TH4819.P7R42 1915a

    Sears, Roebuck and Company. Homes of Today. [S.l.]: Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1931.

    NTL FOLIO TH4819.P7S43 1931

    Sears, Roebuck and Company. Log Cabins. [S.l.]: Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1935.

    NTL STACKS TH4840.S43 1935

    Sears, Roebuck and Company. Modern Homes. Chicago: Sears, Roebuck and Company, 1936.

    NTL STACKS TH4819.P7S42 1936

    Sears, Roebuck and Company. One House-or a Hundred. Chicago: Sears, Roebuck, 1920.

    NTL FOLIO TH4819.P7S435 1920

    Sears, Roebuck and Company. Sears, Roebuck Catalog of Houses, 1926: An Unabridged Reprint. Philadelphia: Athenaeum; New York: Dover, 1991.

    ARCH FOLIO NA7205.S37 1991

    NTL FOLIO NA7205.S37 1991

  Mansions

  Forman, Henry Chandlee. Early Manor and Plantation Houses of Maryland: An Architectural and Historical Compendium, 1634-1800, with Three Hundred Twenty Photographs and One Hundred Forty-Five Plans, Details, and Sketches. 2nd ed., rev. Baltimore: Bodine, 1982.

  MD FOLIO NA7235.M3F6 1982s

  Shopsin, William C. Preserving American Mansions and Estates. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7511.S53 1994

  NTL FOLIO NA7511.S53 1994

  Smith, J. Frazer. Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old South. New York: Dover, 1993.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7211.S63 1993

  NTL FOLIO NA7211.S63 1993

  Wilson, Everett B. American Colonial Mansions and Other Early Houses. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1965.

  ARCH STACKS NA7235.M3W5 1965b

  Pattern Book Homes

  Guter, Robert P., and Janet W. Foster. Building by the Book: Pattern Book Architecture in New Jersey. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7235.N5G87 1992

  NTL FOLIO NA7235.N5G87 1992

  Reiff, Daniel D. Houses from Books: Treatises, Pattern Books, and Catalogs in American Architecture, 1738-1950: A History and Guide. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.R435 2001

  Smeins, Linda E. Building an American Identity: Pattern Book Homes and Communities, 1870-1900. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 1999.

  ARCH STACKS NA7571.S54 1999

  Small Houses

  Dickinson, Duo. Small Houses for the Next Century. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.D55 1995

  Jones, Robert T., ed. Authentic Small Houses of the Twenties: Illustrations and Floor Plans of 254 Characteristic Homes. New York: Dover, 1987. Reprint of Small Homes of Architectural Distinction, 1929.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.J66 1987

  NTL FOLIO NA7205.J66 1987

  Smith, Henry Atterbury. 500 Small Houses of the Twenties. New York: Dover, 1990. Reprint of vol. 1 of The Books of a Thousand Homes, 1923.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.S6525 1990

  NTL STACKS NA7205.S6525 1990

  Walker, Lester. Tiny Houses. Woodstock: Overlook, 1987.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.W36 1987

  MCK FOLIO NA7205.W36 1987

  Your Future Home. Architects' Small House Service Bureau of the United States. Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Architects, 1992. Reprint of the 1923 edition.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.Y69 1992

  Vacation Houses

  The Architectural Record Book of Vacation Houses. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7574.A7 1977

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American Houses by Style

• Baker, John Milnes. American House Styles: A Concise Guide. New York: Norton, 1994.
  ARCH STACKS NA7205.B33 1994

  Grow, Lawrence. Classic Old House Plans: Three Centuries of American Domestic Architecture. Pittstown, N.J.: Main Street, 1984.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.G768 1984

  NTL STACKS NA7205.G768 1984

  Grow, Lawrence. More Classic Old House Plans: Authentic Designs for Colonial and Victorian Homes. Pittstown, N.J.: Main Street, 1986.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.G769 1986

  NTL STACKS NA7205.G769 1986

  McAlester, Virginia, and Lee McAlester. Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles. New York: Abbeville, 1994.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.M36 1994

  NTL STACKS NA7205.M36 1994

  Arts and Crafts/Craftsman

  Duchscherer, Paul. The Bungalow: America's Arts and Crafts Home. New York: Penguin Studio, 1995.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7571.D8 1995

  NTL FOLIO NA7571.D8 1995

  Craftsman Bungalows: 59 Homes from the Craftsman. Ed. Gustav Stickley. New York: Dover, 1988.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7571.C76 1988

  Craftsman-Style Houses. Newtown, Conn.: Taunton, 1995.

  NTL FOLIO NA7208.C68 1995

  Stickley, Gustav. Craftsman Homes: Architecture and Furnishings of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. New York: Dover, 1979.

  ARCH FOLIO NA737.S65A4 1979b

  Tinniswood, Adrian. The Arts & Crafts House. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1999.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7325.T56 1999

  Cape Cod

  Connally, Ernest Allen. The Cape Cod House: An Introductory Study. Media, Pa.: Society of Architectural Historians, 1960.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7235.M4C6

  Schuler, Stanley. The Cape Cod House: America's Most Popular Home. Exton, Pa.: Schiffer, 1982.

  NTL FOLIO NA7235.M4S38 1982

  Schuler, Stanley. Saltbox and Cape Cod Houses. West Chester, Pa.: Schiffer, 1988.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7210.S39 1988

  Colonial

  Colonial Houses: Modern Floor Plans and Authentic Exteriors for 161 Historical Colonial Homes. Tucson: Home Planners, 1990.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7206.C65 1990

  Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, and Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard. Colonial Interiors, Federal and Greek Revival. New York: Helburn, 1938.

  ARCH FOLIO NA707.C65

  NTL FOLIO NA707.C65

  Underwood, Francis H. The Colonial House Then and Now: A Picture Study of the Early American House Adapted to Modern Living. Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1977.

  NTL STACKS NA7210.U5

  Federal

  Garrett, Wendell. Classic America: The Federal Style & Beyond. New York: Rizzoli, 1992.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7206.G37 1992

  Georgian

  Architects' Emergency Committee. Great Georgian Houses of America. 2 vols. New York: Kalkhoff, 1933-37.

  ARCH FOLIO NA707.A7

  NTL FOLIO NA707.A7

  Parissien, Steven. The Georgian House in Britain and America. New York: Rizzoli, 1995.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7328.P325 1995

  Reiff, Daniel D. Small Georgian Houses in England and Virginia: Origins and Development through the 1750s. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1986.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7328.R4 1986

  Gothic Revival

  McArdle, Alma deC., and Deirdre Bartlett McArdle. Carpenter Gothic: Nineteenth-Century Ornamented Houses of New England. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1978.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7210.M3 1978

  NTL FOLIO NA7210.M3 1978

  Greek Revival

  Major, Howard. The Domestic Architecture of the Early American Republic, the Greek Revival. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1926.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7207.M3

  Prairie

  Legler, Dixie. Prairie Style: Houses and Gardens by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School. New York: Stewart, 1999.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7218.L44 1999

  Von Holst, Hermann Valentin. Country and Suburban Homes of the Prairie School Period: With 424 Photographs and Floor Plans. New York: Dover, 1982.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7561.V66 1982

  NTL FOLIO NA7561.V66 1982

  Shingle Style

  The Architecture of the American Summer: The Flowering of the Shingle Style. New York: Rizzoli, 1989.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7207.A68 1989

  NTL FOLIO NA7207.A68 1989

  Roth, Leland M. Shingle Styles: Innovation and Tradition in American Architecture, 1874 to 1982. New York: Norfleet; Abrams, 1999.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7207.R68 1999

  Scully, Vincent J., Jr. The Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Downing to the Origins of Wright. Rev. ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971.

  ARCH STACKS NA7207.S382

  MCK STACKS NA7207.S382

  NTL STACKS NA7207.S382

  Spanish Colonial

  Bunting, Bainbridge. Taos Adobes: Spanish Colonial and Territorial Architecture of the Taos Valley. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7235.N62T364 1992

  Hannaford, Donald R., and Revel Edwards. Spanish Colonial or Adobe Architecture of California, 1800-1850. Stamford, Conn.: Architectural Book Pub. Co., 1990.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7235.C2H3 1990

  Reeve, Agnesa Lufkin. From Hacienda to Bungalow: Northern New Mexico Houses, 1850-1912. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988.

  NTL STACKS NA7235.N6L84 1988

  Victorian

  American Victoriana: Floor Plans and Renderings ... from the Scientific American, Architects and Builders Editions, 1880 through 1905. Comp. Eugene Mitchell. Ed. Judith Lynch Waldhorn. San Francisco: Chronicle, 1979.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7207.A67

  NTL FOLIO NA7207.A67

  Comstock, William T. Victorian Domestic Architectural Plans and Details: 734 Scale Drawings of Doorways, Windows, Staircases, Moldings, Cornices, and Other Elements. Rev. ed. of Modern Architectural Designs and Details, 1881. New York: Dover, 1987.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7207.V53 1987

  NTL FOLIO NA7207.V53 1987

  Delehanty, Randolph. In the Victorian Style. San Francisco: Chronicle, 1991.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7238.S35D4 1991

  NTL FOLIO NA7238.S35D4 1991

  Gillon, Edmund V., Jr., and Clay Lancaster. Victorian Houses: A Treasury of Lesser-Known Examples. New York: Dover, 1973.

  ARCH STACKS NA7207.G5

  NTL STACKS NA7207.G5

  Hussey, E.C. Cottage Architecture of Victorian America. New York: Dover, 1994. Reprint of Hussey's National Cottage Architecture, 1874.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7207.H87 1994

  NTL FOLIO NA7207.H87 1994

  Maass, John. The Victorian Home in America. New York: Hawthorn, 1972.

  ARCH FOLIO NA710.M32 1972

  MCK FOLIO NA710.M32 1972

  NTL FOLIO NA710.M32 1972

  Naversen, Kenneth. East Coast Victorians: Castles & Cottages. Wilsonville, OR: Beautiful America Pub. Co., 1990.

  ARCH STACKS NA7208.7.N38 1990

  NTL STACKS NA7208.7.N38 1990

  Naversen, Kenneth. West Coast Victorians: A Nineteenth-Century Legacy. Wilsonville, OR: Beautiful America Pub. Co., 1987.

  NTL FOLIO NA7225.N38 1987

  Palliser, Palliser & Co. American Victorian Cottage Homes. New York: Dover, 1990. Reprint of Palliser's American Cottage Homes, 1878.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7207.P35 1990

  NTL FOLIO NA7207.P35 1990

  Pearl, Susan G. Victorian Pattern Book Houses in Prince George's County, Maryland. Upper Marlboro, Md.: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 1988.

  NTL FOLIO NA7127.P42 1988

  Reed, S. B. Victorian Dwellings for Village and Country. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 1999. Reprint of Dwellings for Village and Country, 1885.

  NTL FOLIO NA7207.R44 1999

  Sinclair, Peg B. Victorious Victorians: A Guide to the Major Architectural Styles. New York: Holt, 1985.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7207.S562 1985

  NTL FOLIO NA7207.S562 1985

  Stevens, John Calvin, and Albert Winslow Cobb. American Domestic Architecture: A Late Victorian Style Book. Watkins Glen, N.Y.: American Life Foundation & Study Institute, 1978. Reprint of Examples of American Domestic Architecture, 1889.

  ARCH STACKS NA7207.S8 1978

  Victorian Dream Homes. Tucson: Home Planners, 1991.

  NTL FOLIO NA7207.V535 1991

  Victorian House Designs in Authentic Full Color: 75 Plates from the "Scientific American - Architects and Builders Edition", 1885-1894. Ed. Blanche Cirker. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 1996.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7206.V54 1996

  NTL FOLIO NA7206.V54 1996

  Woodward, George E. Victorian City and Country Houses: Plans and Details. New York: Dover, 1996. Reprint of Woodward's National Architect, Volume II, 1877.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7205.W66 1996

  NTL FOLIO NA7205.W66 1996

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American Houses by Region

Northeast/New England
• Mallary, Peter T. Houses of New England. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1984.
  ARCH FOLIO NA7210.M25 1984

  Pillsbury, Richard, and Andrew Kardos. A Field Guide to the Folk Architecture of the Northeastern United States. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College, Dept. of Geography, 1970.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.P55

  NTL STACKS NA7205.P55

  Pratt, Dorothy, and Richard Pratt. A Guide to Early American Homes. 2 vols. Vol. 1: North. New York: Bonanza, 1956.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.P68 1956a v. 1

  Northwest

  Frank, Ann Wall. Northwest Style: Interior Design and Architecture in the Pacific Northwest. San Francisco: Chronicle, 1999.

  ARCH STACKS NA7224.F73 1999

  Humphrey, Linda, and Fred Albert. The Northwest. New York: Bantam, 1989.

  ARCH STACKS NA7224.H86 1989

  Martin, Harry. Contemporary Homes of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Madrona, 1980.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7224.M37

  South/Southeast

  Gammon, Mitzi. The South. New York: Bantam, 1991.

  ARCH STACKS NA7211.G35 1991

  Pratt, Dorothy, and Richard Pratt. A Guide to Early American Homes. 2 vols. Vol. 2: South. New York: Bonanza, 1956.

  ARCH STACKS NA7205.P68 1956a v. 2

  West/Southwest

  Burba, Nora, and Paula Panich. The Desert Southwest. Toronto; New York: Bantam, 1987.

  ARCH STACKS NA7224.6.B87 1987

  Hess, Alan. Hyperwest: American Residential Architecture on the Edge. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1996.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7223.H47 1996

  McMillian, Elizabeth. Casa California: Spanish-Style Houses from Santa Barbara to San Clemente. New York: Rizzoli, 1996.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7235.C22S686 1996

  Thompson, Elisabeth Kendall. Houses of the West. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979.

  ARCH FOLIO NA7223.T48

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Online Resources

• American Foursquare
  http://www.interealm.com/house/foursquare.htm

  The Arts & Crafts Society Archive: Kit Home Information

  http://www.arts-crafts.com/archive/kithome.shtml

  Central Michigan University, Clarke Historical Library: Aladdin Homes

  http://www.lib.cmich.edu/clarke/aladdin/Aladdin.htm

  Downers Grove Visitors Bureau: Sears Catalog Homes

  http://visitor.vil.downers-grove.il.us/searshomes.htm

  Fallon's Architectural Styles: Mail Order Houses and Plans

  http://www.ccmuseum.org/Architecture/architecture10.htm

  Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb

  http://www.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown.html

  Sears Kit Houses: The Old House Web

  http://www.oldhouseweb.net/stories/Features/Sears_Kit_Houses/

  Sears Modern Homes

  http://www.searsmodernhomes.com/

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Related Architecture Library Guides

• Guide to Designs of Single Family Houses
• Guide to Plans and Designs of Apartment Houses and Town Houses

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