This Style Guide Series is posted for your reference and includes a bibliography of reliable style books.The series was written by our editor Nick Langhart, who has taught American architectural history for ten years in central New England colleges —and in New York State previously. He holds an MA in historic preservation from Cornell University.

Printed bound copies of the Antique Homes Guide to Styles may be ordered from Antique Homes, P.O. Box 1046, Douglas, MA 01516, or by calling 508-476-7271.

John Petraglia-- Publisher

Bibliography

Antique Homes Guide to Styles:

Domestic Architectural Styles
of New England to 1920

Baker, John Milnes. American House Styles.
NewYork: W.W. Norton, 1994.

Blumenson, John J.G. Identifying American Architecture.
Nashville, Tennessee:American Association for State and Local History, 1981.

Foley, Mary Mix. The American House.
New York: Harper & Row, 1980.

Howard, Hugh. How Old is This House? A Skeleton Key to Dating and Identifying Three Centuries of American Houses.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.

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

Morrison, Hugh. Early American Architecture: From the First Colonial Settlements to the National Period.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1952. Dover reprint, 1988.

Poppeliers, John C.; Chambers Jr. S. Allen; Schwartz, Nancy B. What Style is it? A Guide to American Architecture.
Washington: PreservationPress,1977, 1983.

Rifkind, Carole. A Field Guide to American Architecture.
New York: Bonanza Books, 1980.

Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780:
A Guide to Styles.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: M.I.T. Press, 1969.