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The Dutch Colonial post, which closed the previous entry, ended by promising that the series would at last leave the …
— Specimens From The American Vernacular
A taxonomy of American houses — naming the styles, reading the ornament, and taking the country’s domestic architecture seriously enough to learn its vocabulary.

The Dutch Colonial post, which closed the previous entry, ended by promising that the series would at last leave the …

The Federal post, several entries back, closed by promising one of two styles for later treatment: the Pueblo Revival of …

The Spanish Colonial Revival post, six entries back, named four styles standing near it and gave the fourth of them a …

The Mid-century Modern of the previous post closed the series’ long descent through the twentieth century — from …

The California Ranch of three posts ago described the post-war American suburb in its dominant Western residential form, …

The California Ranch of two posts ago described the Western post-war suburb in its dominant residential form, and the …

The California Ranch of the previous post described the Western half of the post-war American suburb — the one-storey …

The Spanish Colonial Revival of the previous post described the inter-war Western suburb at its upper-middle commission …

The Spanish Colonial Revival house of the inter-war American suburb — white stucco walls, a low-pitched roof of red clay …

The Tudor Revival house of the inter-war American suburb — black-and-white timbered upper storey above a brick or stone …

The American Foursquare is unusual in this series in that it has, by any reasonable reckoning, no architect, no …

The Prairie is the only style in this series whose name was applied retrospectively, by historians, to architectural …

The Craftsman is the only style in this series whose name was, at the moment it was being built, a registered trademark. …

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 …

For the better part of forty years I had been calling them old farmhouses. They sit back from the country roads of …

A few weeks ago I found myself walking a residential block in a town I was passing through — one of those New England …