Early American Houses: With a Glossary of Colonial Architectural Terms

by Norman Morrison Isham

Book Overview

An intriguing examination of classic colonial houses, this fact-filled foray explores with remarkable concision the "medieval period" of American architecture. The treatise takes for its examples the first houses built along the Atlantic coast in the seventeenth century. While these early structures were usually based on traditional English and Dutch styles, their design and methods of construction soon acquired a unique character of their own. Geographically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486460355
• ISBN13: 9780486460352
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.2"