Early American Architecture: From the First Colonial Settlements to the National Period

xiv, 619 pp. Photographs, layouts, and illustrations throughout. Hailed as "a model of scholarship" by the Saturday Review, this comprehensive survey of domestic and public architecture ranges from early settlers' primitive cabins to Greek Revival mansions of the early 1800s. Nearly 500 illustrations complement the text, praised by The New York Times as "entertaining, vigorous, and clearly written."