A Field Guide to America's Historic Neighborhoods and Museum Houses: The Western States

by Virginia McAlester and Lee McAlester

Book Overview

A tour of domestic architecture in the cities and towns of the American West In this new, information-packed field guide, the authors of the perennially popular A Field Guide to American Houses--the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375701729
• ISBN13: 9780375701726
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 735 Pages
• Weight: 2.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

valuable reference

A beautifully done baedeker of historic information on settlement patterns and architecture of the American West. As in their other books, Lee and McAlester weave local historiography with the creation of venacular architecture into entertaining narrative.There are two apparent shortcomings: a relative dearth of good photos--for a quasi-reference work, there is simply not enough visual stimulation, and a highly cryptic reference system wherein the photo captions are not cross referenced properly with the notes. Otherwise, this is a book to be valued by those with an interest in housing and architecture.