Vermont Heritage Network: Historic Preservation Resources


Architecture


The following publications are divided into four separate categories on architecture. The Vermont and New England Architecture section provides a list of publications specific to the buildings in the Northeast. About Architecture focuses on the importance of architecture. The section on Architects lists key primary and secondary resources on important architects. The Architectural Styles section affords information on a vast array of architectural styles in America.

Vermont and New England Architecture

Andrews, Wayne. Architecture in New England, Harper and Row, New York, 1980

Blow, David J. Historic Guide to Burlington Neighborhoods, Chittenden County Historical Society, Burlington, VT, 1991.

Congdon, Herbert Wheaton. Old Vermont Houses: 1763-1850,1940, reprint, Noone House, Peterborough, NH, 1968

Cummings, Abbot Lowell. Architecture in Early New England, Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA, 1974.

Eldredge, Joseph L. Architecture Boston, Clarkson Potter, New York, 1976.

Fischer, Courtney. The Stowe Book, C. S. Architects, Waitsfield, VT, 1983.

Graff, Nancy Price. Visible Layers of Time: A Perspective on the History and Architecture of Johnson, Vermont, Historic Preservation Program, Department of History, University of Vermont,Burlington, 1990, VT.

Historic Preservation Program, Department of History, University of Vermont. The Burlington Book: Architecture, History, Future, University of Vermont Historic Preservation Program, Burlington, VT,1980.

Hitchcock, Henry-Russel. Rhode Island Architecture, Da Capo, New York, 1939.

Hosley, William N. Architecture and Society of Urban Frontier: Windsor,Vermont,1798-1820, University of Delaware Press, Dover, 1982.

Ishman, Norman, Albert Brown. Early Connecticut Houses, 1900, reprint, Dover, New York, 1965.

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation. A Guide to Vermont Architecture, reprint, Montpelier, VT, 1996.

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation. The Historic Architecture of Addison County: including a listing of the Vermont State Register of Historic Places, Montpelier, VT, 1992.

Vermont, Division for Historic Preservation. The Historic Architecture of Rutland County: including a listing of the Vermont State Register of Historic Places, Montpelier, VT, 1988.

Thompson, Deborah ed. Maine Forms of American Architecture, Down East Magazine, Camden, Maine,1976.

Visser, Thomas Durant. Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings, University Press of New England, Hanover, NH, 1997.

White, Philip Aylwin. Early Houses of Norwich, Vermont, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 1938.

About Architecture

Attoe, Wayne, Donn Logan. American Urban Architecture: Catalysts in the Design of Cities, University of California, Berkeley, 1989.

Bailey, G. H. The Architectural Heritage, Stanley Thornes, London, 1975.

Benjamin, Asher. The Rudiments of Architecture: Being a Treatise on Practical Geometry, Grecian and Roman Mouldings, the Origin of Building, and the Five Orders of Architecture, reprint of 1814 edition, De Capo Press, New York, 1972.

Chitham, Robert. The Classical Orders of Architecture, Rizzoli, New York, 1985.

Cilla, Frank, ed. Public Architecture in the United States, New York, 1989.

Collins, Peter. Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture, Faber and Faber, London, 1965.

De Long, David G., Helen Searing, Robert A. M. Stern, eds. American Architecture: Innovation and Tradition, Rizzoli, New York, 1986.

Garrigan, Kristine Ottesen. Ruskin on Architecture: His Thought and Influence, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1973.

Good Buildings Good Times: A Manual of Program Ideas for Promoting Local Architecture, Preservation League of New York State, Albany, 1985.

Gowans, Alan. The Comfortable House: North American Suburban Architecture, 1890-1930, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1986.

Hubka, Thomas. Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, University Press of New England, 1984.

Kaufmann, Edgar, Jr., ed. TheRise of an American Architecture, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1970.

Knevitt, Charles. Perspectives: An Anthology of 1001 Architectural Quotations, Lund Humphries, London, 1986.

Lindsay, Jack. William Morris: His Life and His Work, Taplinger, New York, 1979

Moudon, Anne Vernez. Built for Change: Neigborhood Architecture in San Francisco, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1986.

Palladio, Andrea. The Four Books of Architecture, 1738, Dover, New York, Reprint, 1965.

Ruskin, John. The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1848, reprint, Farrar, Straus and Giroux New York, 1961.

Summerson, John. The Classical Language of Architecture, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1963.

Upton, Dell, ed. America's Architectural Roots: Ethnic Groups That Built America, The Preservation Press, Washington D. C., 1986.

Wodehouse, Lawrence. Indigenous Architecture Worldwide: A Guide to Information Sources, Gale Research, Detroit, 1980.

Zevi, Bruno. Architecture as Space: How to Look at Architecture, Horizon, New York, 1974.

Architects

Andrew, David S. Louis Sullivan and the Polemics of Modern Architecture, University of Illinois Press, Champagne, 1985.

Baker, Paul R. Richard Morris Hunt, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1980.

Cardwell, Kenneth. Bernard Maybeck: Artisan, Architect, Artist, Peregrine Smith, Salt Lake City, 1977.

Doumato, Lamia. Cass Gilbert, 1859-1934, Vance Bibliographies, Monticello, IL, 1980.

Doumato, Lamia. Henry Hobson Richardson, Boston Architect, Vance Bibliographies, Monticello, IL, 1979.

Doumato, Lamia. Robert Charles Venturi: A Bibliography, Vance Bibliographies, Monticello, IL, 1978.

Fitch, James Marston. Walter Gropius, Brazillier, New York, 1960.

Guiness, Desmond, Julius Trousdale Sadler, Jr. Mr. Jefferson. Architect, Viking, New York, 1973.

Hamlin, Talbot F. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Oxford University Press, New York, 1955.

Hines, Thomas S. Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner, Oxford University Press, New York, 1974.

Kirker, Harold. The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1969.

Landy, Jacob. Architecture of Minard Lafever, Columbia University Press, New York, 1970.

Lobell, John. Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis L. Kahn, Shambhala Books, Boulder, 1979.

Makinson, Randell L. Green and Green: Architecture as a Fine Art, Peregrine Smith, Salt Lake City, 1977.

McCoy, Esther. Richard Neutra, Brazillier, New York, 1960.

Miller, Nory. Philip Johnson/John Burgee: Architecture, Random House, New York, 1978.

Newcomb, Rexford. Spanish Colonial Architecture in the United States, J. J. Augustin, Locust Valley, NJ, 1938.

Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl. H. H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1982.

O' Gorman, James F, George E. Thomas. Architecture of Frank Furness, Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1973.

Oliver, Richard. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1983.

Pierson, William H., Jr. American Buildings and Their Architects, Vol. 1: The Colonial and Neoclassical Styles, Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1970.

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

Roth, Leland M. McKim, Mead and White, Architects, Harper and Row, New York, 1983.

Scully, Vincent. Frank Lloyd Wright, Brazillier, New York, 1960.

Spaeth, David. Mies van der Rohe, Rizzoli, New York, 1985.

Starbuck, James C. The Buildings of I. M. Pei and His Firm, Vance Bibliographies, Monticello, IL, 1978.

Stearns, Elinor, David N. Yerkes. William Thornton: A Renaissance Man in the Federal City, American Institute of Architects Foundation, Washington D. C., 1976.

Architectural Styles

Andrews, Wayne. American Gothic: Its Origins, Its Trials, Its Triumphs, Random House, New York, 1975.

Artley, Alexandra, John Martin Robinson. The New Georgian Handbook, Ebury Press, London, 1985.

Bicknell, Amos Jackson. Bicknell's Village Builder: A Victorian Architectural Guidebook, Originally published in 1870, The American Life Foundation & Study Institute,

Watkins Glenn, NY, 1976.Bicknell, Amos J., William T. Comstock. Victorian Architecture: Two Pattern Books..., The American Life Foundation & Study Institute, Watkins Glenn, NY, 1976

Blunt, Anthony. Francois Mansart and the Origins of French Classical Architecture, Reprint, Somerset Publications, St. Clair Shores, MI, 1941.

Bunting, Bainbridge. Early Architecture in New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1976.

Carrott, Richard G. The Egyptian Revival: Its Souces, Monuments and Meaning, 1808-1858, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1978.

Conduit, Carl W. The Chicago School of Architecture: A History of Commercial and Public Buildings in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1964.

Cummings, Abbot Lowell. The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725, The Belknap Press of Harvard University, Cambridge, 1979.

Downing, A. J. Cottage Residencies: Or, A Series of Designs for Rural Cottages and Cottage-villas and their Gardens and Grounds, Wiley and Putnam, New York, 1842.

Downing, A. J. The Architecture of Country Houses, D. Appleton, New York, 1850.

Eastlake, Charles Locke. A History of Gothic Revival, 1872, Reprint, Humanities Press, New York, 1970.

Easton, Bob, Peter Nabokov. Native American Architecture, Oxford University Press, New York, 1986.

Eberlin, Harold D. Architecture of Colonial America, Johnson Reprints, New York, 1915, Reprint, 1968.

Edwards, A. Trystan. Good and Bad Manners in Architecture (second edition), John Tiranti, London, 1946.

Fitch, James Marston. "Creole Architecture 1718-1860," The Past as Prelude, Pelican Publishing, Gretna, LA, 1969.

Fowler, Orson S. The Octagon House: A Home for All, Dover, New York, 1853, reprint 1973.

Gayle, Margot. Cast Iron Architecture in New York, Dover Publications, New York, 1974.

Gowans, Alan. Styles and Types of North American Architecture: Social Functions and Cultural Expressions, Icon Editions, New York, 1992.

Hammett, Ralph W. Architecture in the United States: A Survey of Architectural Styles Since 1776, John Wiley, New York, 1976.

Hamlin, Talbot F. Greek Revival Architecture in America, Dover, New York, 1966.

Jett, Stephen, Virginia E. Spencer. Navajo Architecture: Forms, History, Distribution, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1981.

Kimball, Fiske. Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic, Dover, New York, 1922, Reprint, 1966.

Longstreth, Richard. The Buildings of Main Street: A Guide to American Commercial Architecture, The Preservation Press, Washington D. C., 1987.

Major, Howard. The Domestic Architecture of the Early American Republic. The Greek Revival, Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1926.

McAlester, Virginia, Lee McAlester. A Field Guide to American Houses, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984.

Moore, Charles W., Kathryn Smith, Peter Becker. Home Sweet Home: American Domestic Vernacular Architecture, Craft and Folk Art Museum, New York, 1983.

Newcomb, Rexford. Spanish Colonial Architecture in the United States, J. J. Augustin, Locust Valley, NJ, 1938.

Pierson, William H., Jr. American Buildings and Their Architects, Vol. 1: The Colonial and Neoclassical Styles, Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1970.

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

Russell Frank, ed. Art Nouveau Architecture, Rizzoli, New York, 1979.

Sanford, Trent E. The Architecture of the Southwest: Indian, Spanish, American, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1971.

Scully, Vincent. The Shingle Style, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1955.

Wells, Camille, ed. Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vernacular Architecture Forum, Annapolis, MD, 1982.

Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780: A Guide to the Styles, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1969.


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