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Description
American Houses is a historical guide to the architecture of the American home. While other architectural field guides show only façades, this book includes floor plans, showing how the form of a house arises from its function. Photographs and drawings of exteriors illustrate the significant... read more
First Sentence
Some 21,000 English settlers immigrated to New England between 1629 and 1640, and in only a few generations their descendants would spread over much of the eastern seaboard north of Delaware and move west across New York, northern Pennsylvania, and the Northwest Territories (the area north of the Ohio River that in time became Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and northeastern Minnesota).
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Authors & Contributors
- Gerald L. Foster (Author)
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