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Home / Learn / Additional Resources / Caring for Your Historic Building / Architectural Style Guides

Architectural Style Guides

Baker, John Milnes, American House Styles: A Concise Guide, New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2002.

Blumenson, J.G., Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945, Rev. Ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1981.

Calloway, Stephen, The Elements of Style: A Practical Encyclopedia of Interior Architectural Details from 1485 to the Present, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

Foster, Gerald L., American Houses: A Field Guide to the Architecture of the Home, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Harris, Cyril, American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2002.

Howe, Jeffrey W., The Houses We Live In: An Identification Guide to the History and Style of American Domestic Architecture, California: Thunder Bay Press, 2002.

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

Poppeliers, John, et al. What Style is It? A Guide to American Architecture, rev. ed. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1983.

Rifking, Carole., A Field Guide to American Architecture, New York: New American Library, 1980.

Walker, Lester, American Shelter: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Homes. New York: The Overlook Press, 1998.

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