Urban and Suburban Domestic Architecture


When the first settlers of America stepped onto the shores of the North Atlantic, they encountered a rich, pristine wilderness. For over three hundred years Americans have sought to develop and inhabit that wilderness in ways that both expand its potential and define a uniquely American way of life. This engagement with a vast continent has necessitated the simultaneous development of cities and the preservation of open countryside.

The Acanthus Press Urban and Suburban Domestic Architecture series present landmark domestic buildings of the last two centuries. The history of these houses and apartments is the history of eminent clients and their architects as they addressed the varied needs of American domestic life. Houses, both traditional and modern, are individually profiled with floor plans, documentary photographs, and the history of owners and their architects. In each book, over 40 houses are examined in detail. Appendices at the back include a portfolio of up to 60 more houses, short architects' biographies and essential bibliography.


Urban and Suburban Domestic Architecture series include:

Great Houses of Chicago, 1871-1921
By Susan Benjamin and Stuart Cohen
Foreword by Franz Schulze and Arthur H. Miller
 

Houses of Philadelphia
Chestnut Hill and the Wissahickon Valley
1880-1930
By James B. Garrison
 

Houses of Missouri, 1870-1940
By Cydney Millstein and Carol Grove
Foreword by Richard Longstreth

North Shore Long Island
Country Houses, 1890-1950
By Paul J. Mateyunas

North Shore Boston
Houses of Essex County, 1865–1930
By Pamela Fox
Introduction by Jonathan Winthrop

Great Houses of New York
1880-1930
By Michael C. Kathrens

North Shore Chicago
Houses of the Lakefront Suburbs, 1890–1940
by Stuart Cohen and Susan Benjamin
Foreword by Franz Schulze

Chicago Apartments:
A Century of Lakefront Luxury
by Neil Harris
Preface by Sara Paretsky

The Main Line
Country Houses of Philadelphia's
Storied Suburb, 1870-1930

By William Morrison
Introduction by Mark Alan Hewit
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American Gardens, 1890-1930
Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest Regions
Edited, with an introduction by
Sam Watters

FORTHCOMING:
 
New York Apartments, 1884-2008
The Dakota to Trump Place
By Lisa Easton and Kate Lemos
 
Houses of Hawaii, 1850-1950
By Don Hibbard
 
 
Houses of Westchester County
1880–1940
By Karen Stone Yannett and Beth Potter
 
Houses of Fairfield County
Kathryn Herman and Elizabeth Montgomery