*The official (but don’t look for it in the enabling regulations for the National Historic Preservation Act, because it isn’t there) definition of “historic” when it comes to a resource (a building, site, structure, object) is 50 years old. There are many, many more books I could suggest adding to your bookshelf, but without going down the rabbit hole of local and regional interest works, the Field Guide is a good companion to have at hand no matter where your travels take you. Read A Field Guide to American Houses The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding Americas Domestic Architecture by Virginia Savage McAlester. Read reviews and buy A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised) - by Virginia Savage McAlester (Paperback) at Target. The porch has been opened up to serve as a pergola of sorts,but it is unmistakably the same dwelling – and while its not the only Kentucky example in the book, it made me grin to think that this particular example was being used to illustrate subtle details of a Revival style in America. A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding Americas Domestic Architecture. Some changes, quite naturally, have occurred over time, but it is most certainly the same house.Ī house I had walked by the previous evening in the Chevy Chase neighborhood of Lexington, Kentucky! The caption for this 1920s era house reads: “Note how a small rounded English entry porch is used in conjunction with a broad American sitting porch on the right.”
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