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See more about Classic Cracker: Florida's Wood-Frame Vernacular Architecture Classic Cracker: Florida's Wood-Frame Vernacular Architecture
no such product found In this visually delightful book, laced with quotations from one of the best chroniclers of Florida Cracker Life, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ronald Haase takes us on an intimate tour of the utilitarian wooden structures constructed by early settlers in North Florida. (full details ...)
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See more about Casa California: Spanish-Style Houses from Santa Barbara to San Clemente Casa California: Spanish-Style Houses from Santa Barbara to San Clemente
no such product found This book showcases southern California's most historically significant and beautifully preserved Spanish Revival houses of this century. (full details ...)
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See more about Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England
no such product found Architect and professor Thomas C. Hubka provides in a single source, a detailed architectural analysis of the connected farm buildings of 19th-Century New England, generously illustrated with drawings and photographs. (full details ...)
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See more about Building Community, Keeping the Faith: German Catholic Vernacular Architecture in a Rural Minnesota Parish Building Community, Keeping the Faith: German Catholic Vernacular Architecture in a Rural Minnesota Parish
no such product found In this study, Fred W. Peterson documents, analyzes, and interprets the community German Catholic immigrants built between 1858 and 1915 on the central Minnesota prairie. (full details ...)
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See more about Case Study Houses Case Study Houses
no such product found The Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. (full details ...)
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See more about Under Live Oaks: The Last Great Plantation Houses of the Old South Under Live Oaks: The Last Great Plantation Houses of the Old South
no such product found ôSoutherners seem to stay close to each other, accumulating ties of kinship in a way that ultimately becomes almost impossible to unravel, and thus the family house remains the center of births, marriages, and deaths through the generations.ö (full details ...)
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See more about The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725 The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725
no such product found In a rich blend of architectural and social history, Cummings reconstructs some of our nation's first houses. (full details ...)
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See more about Vestiges of Grandeur: The Plantations of Louisiana's River Road Vestiges of Grandeur: The Plantations of Louisiana's River Road
no such product found Richard Sexton offers an in-depth visual journey through the hidden mansions-some inhabited, many now long abandoned-of Louisiana's River Road. Bordering the Mississippi, these antebellum landmarks were once the epitome of gracious living in the Deep South. (full details ...)
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See more about Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles
no such product found In this lavishly produced volume, authors Virginia and Lee McAlester explore outstanding landmark houses that exemplify America's major architectural and interior design styles from Colonial times to the mid-20th century. (full details ...)
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See more about Architecture of the Old South Architecture of the Old South
no such product found Architecture of the Old South: Greek Revival & Romantic and its companion volume, Architecture of the Old South: Colonial & Federal, are the climax of some twenty years of exploration, research and writing. (full details ...)
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