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Title: If you don't know Queen Anne from Adam....
Review: This is a great little book, it's impossible to have as much information as it does, but it does! I don't know how they got it all in there, but it's a fun, fascinating, & nostalgic look at American domestic architecture - the styles, the names, the details, packed with b/w photos, drawings, & diagrams.If you're an architect, a draftsman, a craftsman, a contractor, a carpenter, a writer, a homeowner, an armchair historian, an antiques dealer, a builder, a remodeler - then you gotta have one of these! It makes any stroll down a shady old street a lesson in architectural history. Maybe if we all paid a little more attention to just how those old-time builders and architects got so much charm and character into a simple home, we wouldn't be so quick to bulldoze and replace with steel and glass or generic tract housing!
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