The Domestic Architecture Of The Early American Republic The Greek Revival

Bonded Leather binding

Detailed, comprehensive history of the evolution of American domestic architecture from 1620 to 1825, with 219 photographs, floor plans, drawings, and elevations. Authoritative, scholarly, and highly readable.

This edition features and an extensive analytical introduction by the noted architectural historian Dell Upton. Containing 416 black-and-white photographs, 81 measured drawings and an extensive text, this volume presents a splendid array of the early dwellings, barns, and other outbuildings, churches, arsenals, banks, inns, commercial buildings, tollhouses, mills, and even tombstones of western Pennsylvania.

Mia Fineman is Chester Dale Fellow in the Department of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

An illustrated popular guide to the Granite State's rich architectural heritage