Title: A Disappointment
Review: This book was a gift to me, and I had requested it. Within a few minutes of looking at it, I knew I had made a mistake. While it has a lot of information and wonderful looking homes, like so many books about various styles of architecture, its author and photographer seem to concentrate on homes west of the Mississippi. Do they not know that there are great examples of all eras here in the Northeast? (I live in upstate NY) MA is well represented in the first chapters, but after that it seems to be almost purely Chicago and points west.Also, while not all the homes are huge and clearly expensive (a few modest homes can be found in each chapter), the fact that there is only one obvious ranch home -- and it is a grand one -- is ridiculous. Yes, many ranches are probably more modest than they want to include, but come on? How can a serious book about "American Style Houses" ignore this style so completely?
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