Old house, new house: A child's exploration of American architectural styles - Hardcover

Gaughenbaugh, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0891332367 ISBN 13: 9780891332367

Publisher: Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1993

Synopsis

As a family restores the large old house they have bought, they learn about its history and special features and about other types of houses, from San Francisco Victorians to Midwest farmhouses to New York brownstones.

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From the Publisher:

A fictional youngster takes the reader on a voyage of discovery as his family moves into a run-down Victorian house and he learns all about restoring houses and how home styles have developed over the past 400 years in America. Lavish illustrations help to tell this fascinating tale. An aunt's townhouse in Chicago and the homes of cousins in the south and in the country are some of the other architectural journeys in this book, which introduces children to a whole new vocabulary and way of looking at architecture in houses.

From Publishers Weekly:

Effectively setting this outstanding review of American residential architecture within a fictional framework, the authors introduce David Houston, whose family is in the process of restoring a Midwestern Victorian home. The boy's congenial first-person narrative--accompanied by Camburn's precise, painstaking drawings--chronicles the changes made to the house over the years, and the progress of the current restoration. Text and art go on to depict the architecturally diverse homes that David's relatives live in today, as well as the styles of houses that his parents and grandparents grew up in, thus providing an overview of various typical American styles of building. Family reminiscences also provide a cleverly constructed segue into descriptions of the architecture of earlier eras. The personal commentary contributed by members of David's family helps make this compendium of architectural styles highly accessible. Gaughenbaugh and Camburn offer readers an intimate, in-depth portrait of domestic life in this country from colonial times to the present. Ages 10-up.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0891332367
• ISBN 13: 9780891332367
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 56