This bibliography features a number style guides, architectural surveys, and scholarly reports which handle historic architecture on a national level.  Other preservation related bibliographies are available in the resource section of the Vermont Heritage Network.  

Baker, John Milnes. American House Styles- A Concise Guide. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994.

Blumenson, John J. Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945. Nashville, Tenn.: American Association for State and Local History, 1977.

Carley, Rachel. The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994.

Cheney, Sheldon. New World Architecture of 1930. New York: Tudor, 1930.

Clark, Clifford Edward, Jr. The American Family Home, 1800-1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Clark, Robert Judson, ed., The Arts and Crafts Movement in America 1876-1916. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1972.

Cram, Ralph, ed. American Church Building of Today. New York: Architectural Book, 1929.

Cummings, Abbott Lowell. Architecture in Colonial Massachusetts. Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1979.

------ The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Dorsey, Stephen P. Early English Churches in America 1607-1807. New York: Oxford University Press, 1952.

Gayle, Margot, and Gillon, Edmund V., Jr. Cast Iron Architecture in New York: A Photographic Survey. New York: Dover, 1974.

Gowans, Alan. The Comfortable House - North American Suburban Architecture, 1890-1930. Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1986.

Hamlin, Talbot. Greek Revival Architecture in America (reprint of 1944 ed.). New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1964.

Hammett, Ralph W. Architecture in the U.S.: A Survey of Architectural Styles since 1776. A Wiley-Interscience Pub. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1976.

Harris, John, and Jill Lever. Illustrated Glossary of Architecture, 1850-1830. London: Faber and Faber, 1966.

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Baltimore:
Penguin Books, 1958.

-----The Architecture of H. H. Richardson and his Times. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1966.

Hubka, Thomas. Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1984.

Isham, Norman M. Glossary of Colonial Architectural Terms. Boston:The Walpole Society, 1939.

Kelly, J. Frederick. Early Domestic Architecture of Connecticut (reprint of 1924 edition). New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1963.

Kimball, S. Fiske. Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early of Republic (reprint of the 1922 edition). New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1966.

Maas, John. The Gingerbread Age. New York: Bramhaii House, 1957.

McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. Nashville, Tenn.: American Association for State and Local History, 1986.

Morrison, Hugh. Early American Architecture from the First Colonial Settlements to the National Period. New York: Oxford University Press, 1952.

National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. The National Register of Historic Places. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976, 1978, 1979.

Newcomb, Rexford. Architecture of the Old Northwest Territory: A Study of Early Architecture in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Part of Minnesota. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950.

Pierson, William H. American Buildings and Their Architects: The Colonial and Neoclassical Styles. Garden City, N.Y., 1970.

------ American Buildings and Their Architects: Technology and the Picturesque.- The Corporate and Early Gothic Styles. Garden City, N.Y., 1978.

Poppeliers, John, S. Allen Chambers and Nancy B. Schwartz. What Style is It? Washington, D.C.: The Preservation Press, 1977.

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

Scully, Vincent. The Stick Style and the Shingle Style. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971.

Smith, G. E. Kidder. A Pictorial History of Architecture in America. New York: Bonanza Books and American Heritage Publishing Company, 1976.

Sinnott, Edmund W. Meetinghouse and Church in Early New England. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1963.

Stanton, Phoebe. The Gothic Revival and American Church Architecture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1968.

Stevenson, Katherine Cole and H. Ward Jandl. Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company. Washington, D.C.: The Preservation Press, 1986.

Upton, Dell, and John Michael Vlach, eds. Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1986.

Waterman, Thomas T. The Dwellings of Colonial America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1950.

Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780: A Guide to the Styles. Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1969.

Whitehead, Russell F., ed. The Architectural Treasures of Early America Series (8 vols.), reprints of The White Pine Series of architectural Monographs (1914-1940). New York: Amo Press and the Early American Society, 1977.

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