Comfortable House: North American Suburban Architecture 1890-1930 - Alan Gowans - Hardcover

Between 1890 and 1930, more houses were built in the United States than in all its previous history. The Comfortable Houseprovides the first full treatment of this large body of domestic building. More than half of the book is devoted to classifying these houses into categories that can help guide preservationists, architectural historians and homeowners through the great profusion of "post Victorian" styles - Bungalow, Saltbox, Shingle, Tudor, Gothic, and the like. Aided by over 200 illustrations taken from contemporary catalogs of ready-cut houses, and photographs of actual houses, The Comfortable Houseclassifies each style, notes its vintage, and documents its source. Alan Gowans is Professor of History of Art at the University of Victoria, British Columbia and he author of 15 previous books.Gowans, Alan is the author of 'Comfortable House: North American Suburban Architecture 1890-1930 - Alan Gowans - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780262070959 and ISBN 0262070952.