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Home / Learn / Educational Resources / Caring for Your Historic Building / Exterior Color

Exterior Color

Crosbie, Michael J. and Steve Rosenthal, Architecture, Colors, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1993.Moss, Roger A., Century of Color: Exterior Decoration for American Buildings, 1820- 1920, American Life Foundation, 1980.

Moss, Roger W., ed., Paint in America: The Colors of Historic Buildings. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1995.

Moss, Roger W. and Gail Caskey Winkler, Victorian Exterior Decoration, New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1987.

“The Case Against Removing Paint from Brick Masonry,” Old-House Journal, Feb. 1975. “Checklist for Painting.” May 1986. “Exterior Painting,” April 1981. “Prior to Paint,” July/Aug 1994. “Restoring a Frame House Exterior,” Sept., 1974. “Stripping Paint from Exterior Wood,” Dec., 1985. “Stripping Exterior Masonry,” Jan/Feb 1985.

“Painting the House.” Consumer Reports, September 1995.

Schweitzer, Robert, Bungalow Colors: Exteriors. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2002.

Schwin, Lawrence III, Old House Colors: An Expert’s Guide to Painting Your Old (Or Not So Old) House. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 1990.

Weeks, Kay D. and David W. Look, “Paint on Exterior Historic Woodwork: Identification and Treatment of Surface Condition Problems,” Technology and Conservation, Summer, 1982.

 

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