Suggested Readings

General Sources

Bleekman, George M. et. al. Twentieth Century Building Materials: 1900-1950. Washington, DC: National Park Service, 1993.

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

Buchner, Ward. Dictionary of Building Preservation. New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc., 1996. Calloway, Stephen and Elizabeth Cromley, eds. The Elements of Style. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.

Friedman, Donald. Historical Building Construction. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1995. Hale, Jonathan. The Old Way of Seeing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

Jester, Thomas C. ed. Twentieth-Century Building Materials: History and Conservation. New York: McGraw Hill, 1995.

Jordan, Terry G., Jon T. Kilpinen, and Charles F. Gritzner. The Mountain West: Interpreting the Folk Landscape. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

LeBlanc, Sydney. Whitney Guide to 20th Century American Architecture. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1993.

McAlester. Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1990.

Longstreth, Richard. The Buildings of Main Street. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1987.

Poppeliers, John C., S. Allen Chambers, Jr., and Nancy B. Schwartz. What Style is It?. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1983.

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

Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1976.

Wiseman, Carter. Shaping a Nation: Twentieth-Century American Architecture and Its Makers. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

Withey, Henry F. and Elsie R. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased). Los Angeles: New Age Publishing Co., 1956.

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