A SHORT LIST OF BOOKS ON HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE
Architectural style guides:
Blumenson, John. Identifying American Architecture. Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1981, rev. ed.
McAlester, Virginia and Lee McAlester. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1985.
Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780: A Guide to the Styles. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992.
Regional Architecture of the Midwest
Brooks, H. Allen. The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright ad His Midwest Contemporaries. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972.
Garner, John S., ed. The Midwest in American Architecture. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
Landscape Research. Built in Milwaukee: An Architectural View of the City. Milwaukee, WI: City of Milwaukee, 1981.
Larson, Paul Clifford and Susan M. Brown. The Spirit of H.H. Richardson on the Midland Prairies: Regional Transformation of an Architectural Style. Ames, IA: Iowa State University press, 1988.
Noble, Allen G. and Hubert G.H. Wilhelm, eds. Barns of the Midwest. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1995.
Perrin, Richard W.E. The Architecture of Wisconsin. Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1967.
Perrin, Richard W.E. Historic Wisconsin Buildings: A Survey in Pioneer Architecture 1835-1870. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Public Museum, 1981.
Visser, Kristin. Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School in Southern Wisconsin: An Architectural Touring Guide. Madison, WI: Prairie Oak Press, 1992.
Zimmerman, H. Russell. The Heritage Guidebook: Landmarks and Historical Sites in Southeastern Wisconsin. Milwaukee, WI: Inland Heritage Corporation, 1976.
General Books on American Architecture
Andrews, Wayne. Architecture, Ambition and Americans. New York: Freee Press, 1978.
Fitch, James Marston. American Building: The Historical Forces That Shaped It. New York: Shoken Books, 1973.
Fitch, James Marston. American Building: The Environmental Forces That Shaped It. New York: Shoken Books, 1975.
Gowans, Alan. The Comfortable House: North American Suburban Architecture 1890-1930. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c 1986.
Pierson, William and William Jordy. American Buildings and Their Architects, 4 volumes. New York: Oxford University Press.
Rifkind, Carole. A Field Guide to American Architecture. New York: Plume Books, New American Library, Inc., 1980.
Roth, Leland. A Concise History of American Architecture. New York: Harper and Row, c. 1979.
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