Images of an American land : vernacular architecture in the Western United States /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Carter, Thomas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1997]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a theory for Western vernacular architecture / Thomas Carter
  • False-front architecture on Montana's urban frontier / Kingston Heath
  • Folk design in Utah architecture, 1849 1890 / Thomas Carter
  • The Calef's farm in Oregon : a Vermont vernacular comes west / Philip Dole
  • Dry Creek : central Nevada's Damele ranch / Blanton Owen
  • When a room is the hall : the houses of west Las Vegas, New Mexico / Chris Wilson
  • Russian churches, American houses, Aleut people : converging cultures in the Pribilof Islands, Alaska / Alison K. Hoagland
  • Chinatown of Gold Mountain : the Chinese in Locke, California / Christopher L. Yip
  • Keeping house : women, domesticity, and the use of domestic space in nineteenth-century Nevada / Margaret Purser
  • The real estate associates : a land and housing developer of the 1870s in San Francisco / Anne Bloomfield
  • Innovation without paradigm : the many creators of the drive-in market / Richard Longstreth
  • The historic industrial landscape of Butte and Anaconda, Montana / Fredric L. Quivik
  • American modernism in the west : Hoover Dam / Richard Guy Wilson.