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Author Gowans, Alan.

Title The comfortable house : North American suburban architecture, 1890-1930 / Alan Gowans ; bibliography by Lamia Doumato
Published Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, [1986]
©1986

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Description xv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Contents The comfortable house in its times -- The comfortable house in its suburban place -- The builders of post-Victorian America -- Diverse forms of comfortable building -- Colonial revival styles: Spanish, French, Dutch, German -- Colonial revival styles: English -- Classical revival (National Democratic) styles -- Medieval revival styles -- Picturesque styles -- The unified cultural matrix of architects, near architects, and non-architects in post-Victorian America
Summary Provides a guide to the burst of styles used in suburban homes built between 1890 and 1930
Analysis United States Residences Architectural design, 1890-1930
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 224-239
Subject Architecture, Domestic -- Canada.
Architecture, Domestic -- United States.
Suburban homes -- Canada.
Suburban homes -- United States.
Vernacular architecture -- Canada.
Vernacular architecture -- United States.
LC no. 86002987
ISBN 0262070952