American House Designs An Index to Popular and Trade Periodicals, 1850-1915

'œ...an important bibliography for students of American domestic or vernacular architecture....The importance of this work is that it makes readily available access to popular turn of the century house designs by pattern book architects, low profile architects and local architects in remote locations who have seldom been acknowledged by the professional architectural journals. The history of domestic architecture as written in the journals which Culbertson indexes is the story of architecture as a consumer commodity rather than as a fine art and helps explain the townscape of virtually every small town in the United States. Scholars of vernacular architecture and regional historians will find this bibliography valuable in their work.'' H-NETCulbertson, Margaret is the author of 'American House Designs An Index to Popular and Trade Periodicals, 1850-1915' with ISBN 9780313292026 and ISBN 0313292027.