Original Wraps. America's Housing Need, Ample Labor Supply for Home Building, No Real Threat of a Transportation Shortage, Bridgeport Workers Prefer These Privately Built Small Homes, Defense Homes Can Have Appeal and Glamour, Once Row Houses - Now Apartments, and more. More
Spiral Bound Wraps. Tennessee Valley Authority, Museum of Modern Art, Ice Cream Store on Wheels. More
Spiral Bound Wraps. Small House Reference Number * Construction ... Materials ... Equipment. More
Spiral Bound Wraps. Modern Houses in America. More
Original Wraps. The Architect and the NHA, Painting Your Way Out of the Cellar, Housing for the Small Office; A Brief International Bibliography of Housing; The Later Dwelling Architecture of Cape Ann, English Entrance Doors. More
Original Wraps. Design in Modern Architecture; Pencil Sketches; The Geometry of Architectural Drafting; Impressions of Modern Architecture; How an Architectural Project is Carried On; To Those Who Enter Competitions. More
Original Wraps. Jury Competition: Flat Glass Industry Architectural Competition; New York and Its Plans; Wrought Metalwork; Grand Prix de Rome. More
Original Wraps. The Pursuit of the Elusive Client by Royal Barry Wills; Architects and Building Material Producers Discuss their Mutual Problems - A Symposium; Georges Szabo, a Ferronnier of the Old School; Rome Prize in Architecture; The Architectural Annex of the New Bureau of Agricultural Engineering. More
Original Wraps. Post Depression Architecture and the City Debt; New York and Its Plans; Wrought Metalwork; Dionysus in the Latin Quarter; English Entrance Doors. More
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. xiv, 387, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. The authors take an informative and entertaining look at the history, architecture, and business of motels in the United States. This book explores the effect..... More
New Haven, CT: 1916. Reprint. Cloth over Boards. A classic contribution to the literature of the Maryland tidewater area, reprinted for a new audience - covering its history, its traditions, and giving descriptions of the old manor houses. More
New York: 1975. Boards. An informal and informed appreciation of a period that the author liked. An attempt, largely visual, to define and illustrate Depression Modern as the primary style of the decade and the turning point of modernism in America. More
New York: 1962. Cloth over Boards. Noah Blake was 15 years old when he wrote his account of daily activities on his father's farm. Eric Sloane filled in details from his own knowledge of early American ways and tools, and illustrated what the farm looked like with his superb pen-and-ink..... More
New York: 1952. Cloth over Boards. Sloane was active with the weather long before he became a cultural historian! This book is authoritative yet entertaining, scientific yet non-technical, factual yet wholly human in its approach. More
New Haven, CT: 1988. Color Pictorial Wraps. A guide through the early suburbs of New York City, Cincinnati, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston, picturesque regions beyond the streetcar lines to which city workers traveled by steamboat, carriage, and train. More
Salt Lake City, UT: 1990. Cloth over Boards. The author traces the history of classical design to the present day and provides examples of virtually every one of its applications. Richly informed and beautifully illustrated. More
New York: Albro and Lindeberg, 1912. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 7 plus ~85 full page b/w photgraphic plates. Lewis Colt Albro and Harrie T. Lindeberg worked together at McKim, Mead and White before beginning an independent practice in 1906. This book is a compilation of some of..... More
London: M.A. Nattali, 1825. Third edition. Boards. Quarto, Vol. I- xx, pp 44 and 60 engraved plates, Vol. II xxiii, pp 32 and 54 engraved plates, glossary. Engraved frontspiece in both volumes. Stamped by a previous owner in 1969 on the front endpaper of both volumes. An extensive illustrated encyclopedia..... More
New York: 1934. Cloth over Boards. Plans by two architects who specialized in camp and cabin building: Robert Gardner and William Wicks. More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1872. First edition. Boards. Small quarto, pp. 427, with a listing of selected Gothic buildings erected 1820-1870; illustrated with b/w engravings. Charles Locke Eastlake was a British architect and furniture designer. The style of furniture named after him, Eastlake style, flourished during the later half..... More
Princeton, NJ: 2020. Decorated Cloth over Boards. A group of notable biographers, historians, critics and poets explore the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past, looking for what the house can tell us about the person who lived there. More
Los Angeles, CA: 1973. Revised and enlarged. Cloth over Boards. One of the basic bibliographic tools for the student of American architectural history. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1911. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 29 plus 16 pages of 63 sepia photographs. The term Lombard architecture refers to the architecture of the Kingdom of the Lombards in Italy, which lasted from 568 to 774 and which was commissioned by the..... More
New Castle, DE: 1999. Revised and enlarged. Cloth over Boards. A valuable and comprehensive search tool for students and scholars of 18th-century architectural history and American material culture. More
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1998. First edition. Cloth over Boards, black w/pictorial Dust Jacket. Quarto, pp. 239, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. The National Gallery of Art, the Jefferson Memorial, the Frick and the Metropolitan Museums: some of the most iconic buildings in Washington, D.C. and New..... More
