Entrée principale:

Schweitzer, Robert, 1949-

Titre et auteur:

America's favorite homes : mail-order catalogues as a guide to popular early 20th-century houses / by Robert Schweitzer and Michael W.R. Davis.

Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1990.

Description:

261 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 27 cm.

Série(s):

Great Lakes books

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-253) and index.
About architectural style -- Color illustrations -- SECTION I: DEVELOPING ARCHITECTURAL STYLES AND CONSTRUCTION TECHONOLOGIES: American housing styles at the end of the 19th century -- Historical American construction techniques -- Prefabricated housing -- Plans books and catalogue homes -- History of the Aladdin Company -- Catalog home advertising -- Pre-cut manufacturing processes -- How prefabricated homes were assembled -- Catalogue homes in company towns -- SECTION II: NATIONAL PERIOD, 1900-1920: Survivals -- Revivals -- New American homes -- SECTION III: ACADEMIC PERIOD, 1920-1941: Modern Tudor revivals -- Modern Colonial revivals -- Twilight academic period styles -- Vernacular homes -- Conclusion.

ISBN:

0814320058
9780814320051
0814320066 (pbk.)
9780814320068 (pbk.)

Sujet:

Architecture, Domestic United States Designs and plans Catalogs.
Mail-order business United States Catalogs.
Vente par correspondance États-Unis Catalogues.
Architecture domestique États-Unis Dessins et plans Catalogues.
Vente par correspondance Catalogues États-Unis.
Prefabricated houses.
Architecture, Domestic.
Mail-order business.
United States.

Classification/genre:

Trade catalogs.
architectural drawings (visual works)
catalogs (documents)
Architectural drawings.
Catalogs.
Dessins d'architecture.
Catalogues.

Vedettes secondaires:

Davis, Michael W. R., 1931-
Great Lakes books.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 56846
Cote: ID:90-B5144
Statut: Disponible