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The Craftsman is the only style in this series whose name was, at the moment it was being built, a registered trademark. The Craftsman was the title of a monthly magazine, published from 1901 to 1916 by Gustav Stickley …
The Colonial Revival is the only style in this series that arrived as a revival of a revival. The American Colonial …
There is a particular kind of weight in the great American public libraries and county courthouses of the 1880s — a …
The Shingle style is, on inspection, the first American architectural style that did not claim to be a revival of …
There is, in the sequence of nineteenth-century American architectural styles, exactly one whose name was given to it …
There is a small irony at the heart of the most imperial roof in nineteenth-century American architecture: it began its …
The square wooden cupolas one sees on certain American houses of the 1860s and 1870s have a feature that is easy to miss …
There is a small wooden cottage one finds, in older parts of the Hudson valley and the upper South and the New England …
Some weeks back I was looking at the seccomp profile that had shipped, alongside one of our services, into production, …
For the better part of forty years I had been calling them old farmhouses. They sit back from the country roads of …
The Craftsman is the only style in this series whose name was, at the moment it was being built, a registered trademark. The Craftsman was the title of a …
The Colonial Revival is the only style in this series that arrived as a revival of a revival. The American Colonial Georgian of the eighteenth century, which …
There is a particular kind of weight in the great American public libraries and county courthouses of the 1880s — a heaviness that registers, on inspection, not …
The Shingle style is, on inspection, the first American architectural style that did not claim to be a revival of anything. Every previous style covered in this …
There is, in the sequence of nineteenth-century American architectural styles, exactly one whose name was given to it not by its builders but by a critic, …
There is a small irony at the heart of the most imperial roof in nineteenth-century American architecture: it began its life as a French tax dodge. The roof in …
The square wooden cupolas one sees on certain American houses of the 1860s and 1870s have a feature that is easy to miss until one has paid attention. They are …
There is a small wooden cottage one finds, in older parts of the Hudson valley and the upper South and the New England villages settled before 1860, that defies …
Some weeks back I was looking at the seccomp profile that had shipped, alongside one of our services, into production, and admitted I had no precise account of …
For the better part of forty years I had been calling them old farmhouses. They sit back from the country roads of Vermont and Massachusetts and upstate New …
| Date | Category | Title | Words | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-12 | architecture | Craftsman - Reading the American House | 4453 | 21 min |
| 2026-05-11 | architecture | Colonial Revival - Reading the American House | 4404 | 21 min |
| 2026-05-10 | architecture | Romanesque Revival - Reading the American House | 4138 | 20 min |
| 2026-05-09 | architecture | Shingle - Reading the American House | 3709 | 18 min |
| 2026-05-08 | architecture | Stick - Reading the American House | 3667 | 18 min |
| 2026-05-07 | architecture | Second Empire - Reading the American House | 3678 | 18 min |
| 2026-05-06 | architecture | Italianate - Reading the American House | 3472 | 17 min |
| 2026-05-05 | architecture | Gothic Revival - Reading the American House | 3035 | 15 min |
| 2026-05-05 | rust | The Quieter Sandbox - On Generating seccomp by Observation | 1703 | 8 min |
| 2026-05-04 | architecture | Greek Revival - Reading the American House | 3245 | 16 min |