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Amst 175 / Art 191: American Architecture 1600-1860 AmSt 175 / AH 191: American Architecture 1600-1860 Fall 2008 Professor Longstreth REFERENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX SURVEYS/ANTHOLOGIES....................................................................................................……………………2 ENGLISH COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE…………......................................................................……………….3 DUTCH COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE…………………………………………………………………………….6 FRENCH COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE………………………………………………………………………...…7 SPANISH COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE…………………………………………………………………………..8 GERMAN-AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE…………………………………………………………………………9 EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY..........................................................................................………………....10 LOCAL/REGIONAL STUDIES................................................................................................………………….11 HOUSES/HOUSING............................................................................................................……………………..16 COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS………………………………………………………………………………………21 EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS……………………………………………………………………………………...23 GOVERNMENTAL BUILDINGS………………………………………………………………………………..…23 INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS………………………………………………………………………………………...25 INSTITUTIONAL BUILDINGS………………………………………………………………………………….…26 RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS…………………………………………………………………………………………..26 OTHER BUILDING TYPES..................................................................................................……………………28 MATERIALS/TECHNOLOGY...............................................................................................…………………..29 ARCHITECTS/BUILDERS....................................................................................................……………………31 MISCELLANEOUS.............................................................................................................……………………..35 SOME FURTHER SOURCES……………………………………………………………………………………….37 [JSAH = Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians] 1 1 Surveys and Anthologies Annmarie Adams and Sally McMurry, eds., Exploring Everyday Landscapes: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, VII, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997 Wayne Andrews, Architecture, Ambition and Americans: A Social History of American Architecture, revised ed., New York: Free Press, 1978 Kenneth Breisch and Alison Hoagland, Building Environments: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, X, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005 Daniel J. 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