Architectures of North America: Colonial & New Republic: General resources

Carson, Cary, et. al., “Impermanent architecture in the Southern American colonies,” Winterthur Portfolio, Summer/Autumn 1981

Cummings, Abbott Lowell, The framed houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725, Belknap Press, NA730.M4 C85

Howells, John Mead, Lost examples of colonial architecture, Dover Publications, NA707.H75 1963

Kupperman, Karen Ordahl, The Jamestown project, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, F234.J3 K87 2007

McNamara, Martha J., “’In the face of the court…’: law, commerce, and the transformation of public space in Boston, 1650-1770,” Winterthur Portfolio, Summer/Autumn 2001, p.125-139 (PDF via JStor)

St. George, Robert Blair, “Bawns and beliefs: architecture, commerce, and conversion in early New England,” Winterthur Portfolio, Winter 1990, p.241-287 (PDF via JStor)

Steane, Mary Ann, “Building in the climate of the New World: a cultural or environmental response,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Spring 2004, p.49-60 (PDF via JStor)

Yeomans, D. T., “A Preliminary Study of English Roofs in Colonial America,” Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology, Vol.13, #4, 1981, p.9-18 (PDF via JStor)

Glassie, Henry, “Eighteenth-century cultural process in Delaware Valley folk building,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol. 7, 1972, p.29-57 (PDF via JStor)

Manca, Joseph, “On the origins of the American porch: architectural persistence in Hudson Valley Dutch settlements,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.40, #2/3, Summer/Autumn, 2005, p.91-132 (PDF via JStor)

Shank, Wesley I., “Eighteenth-century architecture of the Upper Delaware River Valley of New Jersey and Pennsylvania,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 31, #2, 1972, p.137-144 (PDF via JStor)

Van den Hurk, Jeroen, "The architecture of New Netherland revisited." Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, #10, 2005, p.133-152 (PDF via JStor)

Weaver, William Woys, “The Pennsylvania German house: European antecedents and New World forms,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.21, #4, Winter 1986, p.243-264 (PDF via JStor)

Zink, Clifford W., “Dutch framed houses in New York and New Jersey,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.22, #4, Winter 1987, p.265-294 (PDF via JStor)  

Cable, Mary, Lost New Orleans, Houghton Mifflin, NA735.N4C32

Katz, Ron, French America: French architecture from colonialization to the birth of a nation, French Heritage Society, NA705 .K37 2004

"The explorers: Samuel de Champlain 1604-1616," Candian Museum of History

Richardson, A. J. H., “Guide to the architecturally and historically most significant buildings in the old city of Quebec,” Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology, Vol.2, #3/4, 1970, p.3-144

Ronda, James P., “The European Indian: Jesuit civilization planning in New France,” Church History, Vol.41, #3, 1972, p.385-395 (PDF via JStor)

Wilson, Samuel, Jr., “Louisiana drawings by Alexandre De Batz,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol.22, #2, 1963, p.75-89 (PDF via JStor)

Wilson, Samuel, Jr., “Religious architecture in French Colonial Louisiana,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.8, 1973, p.63-106 (PDF via JStor)

Bunting, Bainbridge, Early architecture in New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press, NA730.N38 B86

Collins, George R., “The transfer of thin masonry vaulting from Spain to America,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol.27, #3 1968, p.176-201 (PDF via JStor)

Ettinger, Catherine R., “Architecture as order in the California missions,” Southern California Quarterly, Spring 2003, p.1-12 (PDF via JStor)

Gordon, Elsbeth K., Florida's colonial architectural heritage, University Press of Florida, NA730.F6G67 2002

Kennedy, Roger G, Mission: the history and architecture of the missions of North America, Houghton Mifflin, NA707 .K39 1993

Kirker, Harold, “The role of Hispanic kinships in popularizing the Monterey Style in California, 1836-1846,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol.43, #3, 1984, p.250-255 (PDF via JStor)

Lightfoot, Kent G., “The archaeology of colonialism in the American Southwest and Alta California,” in New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: the colonial period in the American Southwest, edited by John G. Douglass & William M. Graves, University Press of California, 2017, p.355-378 (PDF via JStor)

Newcomb, Rexford, Spanish-Colonial architecture in the United States, Dover Publications, NA707.N44 1990

Smith, Robert C., “Colonial towns of Spanish and Portuguese America,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol.14, #4, 1955, p.3-12 (PDF via JStor)

Benjamin, Asher, The practice of architecture: The builder's guide: two pattern books of American classical architecture, Da Capo Press, NA170.B46 1994

Cohen, Jeffrey A, “Building a discipline: early institutional settings for architectural education in Philadelphia, 1804-1890,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 1994, p.139-183 (PDF via JStor)

Edwards, Jay D., “The Origins of Creole Architecture,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.29, #2/3, 1994, p.155–89 (PDF via JStor)

Hafertepe, Kenneth & James F. O’Gorman, American architects and their books to 1848, University of Massachusetts Press, NA707 .A47 2001

Kramer, Ellen W., “Contemporary descriptions of New York City and its public architecture ca. 1850,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1968, p.264-280 (PDF via JStor)

Lancaster, Clay, “Oriental forms in American architecture 1800-1870,” The Art Bulletin, September 1947, p.183-193 (PDF via JStor)

Maynard, W. Barksdale, “’Best, lowliest style!’ The early-nineteenth-century rediscovery of American Colonial architecture,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2000, p.338-357 (PDF via JStor)

Park, Helen, “A list of architectural books available in America before the revolution,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 1961, p.115-130 (PDF via JStor)

Pfister, Harold Francis, “Burlingtonian architectural theory in England and America,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.11, 1976, p.123-151 (PDF via JStor)

Roth, Leland M. (editor), America builds: source documents in American architecture and planning, Harper & Row, NA705 .A48 1983

Upton, Dell, “The traditional house and its enemies,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Spring 1990, p.71-84 (PDF via JStor)

Woods, Mary N., From Craft to Profession: the practice of architecture in nineteenth-century America, University of California Press, NA1996.W64 1999

Ziolkowski, Jan M., “Britain and the making of the American Middle Ages,” in The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity: volume 3: the American Middle Ages, Cambridge, 2018 (PDF via JStor)

Ellis, Clifton & Rebecca Ginsburg (editors), Cabin, quarter, plantation: architecture and landscapes of North American slavery, Yale University Press, E443 .C325 2010

Hafertepe, Kenneth, “Banking houses in the United States: the first generation, 1781-1811,” Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 2000, p.1-52 (PDF via JStor)

Jackson-Retondo, Elaine, "Manufacturing moral reform: images and realities of a nineteenth-century American prison," Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.8, 2000, p.117-137 (PDF via JStor)

Lounsbury, Carl, “God is in the details: the transformation of ecclesiastical architecture in early nineteenth-century America,” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.13, #1, 2006, p.1-21 (PDF via JStor)

McNamara, Martha J., From tavern to courthouse: architecture & ritual in American law, 1658-1860, Johns Hopkins University Press, NA4472.M3 M39 2004

McLendon, Arthur E., “Ritual performance and architectural collaboration in early Shaker meetinghouses,” Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vol.20, #2, Fall 2013, p.48-76 (PDF via JStor)

Miller, Allen S., “Lighthouses as instruments and manifestations of state building in the Early Republic,” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architectural Forum, Spring 2010, p.13-34 (PDF via JStor)

Mooney, Barbara Burlison, “Looking for history’s huts,” Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 2004, p.43-70 (PDF via JStor)

Sandoval-Strausz, A. K., "A public house for a New Republic: the architecture of accommodation and the American state, 1789-1809." Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture Vol.9, 2003, p.54-70 (PDF via JStor)

Upton, Dell, “Architectural politics and the patent office building,” American Art, Summer 2006, p.13-16 (PDF via JStor)

Yanni, Carla, “The linear plan for insane asylums in the United States before 1866,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2003, p.24-49 (PDF via JStor)

Bishir, Catherine W., “Urban slavery at work: the Bellamy Mansion compound, Wilmington, North Carolina,” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Fall 2010, p.13-32 (PDF via JStor)

Edwards, Jay D., “Shotgun: the most contested house in America,” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Spring 2009, p.62-96 (PDF via JStor)

Eversmann, Pauline K., “Evidences of American home life,” Winterthur Portfolio, Summer / Autumn 2012, p.179-194 (PDF via JStor)

Herman, Bernard L., Town house: architecture and material life in the early American city, 1780-1830, University of North Carolina Press, 2005 (via ProQuest Ebook Central)

McCarley, Rebecca Lawin, “Orson S. Fowler and a home for all: the octagon house in the Midwest,” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.12, 2005, p. 49-63 (PDF via JStor)

Nicoletta, Julie, “The architecture of control: Shaker dwelling houses and the reform movement in early nineteenth-century America,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2003, p.352-387 (PDF via JStor)

Parrott, Charles, “The double house in New England,” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.10, 2005, p.33-46 (PDF via JStor)

Pogue, Dennis J., “The domestic architecture of slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon,” Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 2002, p.3-22 (PDF via JStor)

Small, Nora Pat, "New England farmhouses in the Early Republic: rhetoric and reality." Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.6, 1997, p.33-45 (PDF via JStor)

Upton, Dell, “Pattern books and professionalism: aspects of the transformation of domestic architecture in America, 1800-1860,” Winterthur Portfolio, Summer / Autumn 1984, p.107-150 (PDF via JStor)

Upton, Dell, “The traditional house and its enemies,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Spring 1990, p.71-84 (PDF via JStor)

Chudacoff, Howard P., The evolution of American urban society, Prentice Hall, HT123 .C49 2000

Flexner, James Thomas, “The Great Columbian Federal City,” American Art Journal, Vol. 2, #1, Spring 1970, p.30-45 (On Washington, D.C.) (PDF via JStor)

Reps, John W., "Thomas Jefferson's checkerboard towns," The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 1961, p.108-114 (PDF via JStor)

Reps, John W., Town planning in frontier America, University of Missouri Press, NA9106 .R46 1980

Sage, Evan T., “Classical place-names in America,” American Speech, April 1929, p.261-271 (PDF via JStor)

Van den Hurk, Jeroen, “The ‘ideal city’ of New Amsterdam. Seventeenth-century Netherlandic town planning in North America,” New York History, Summer/Fall 2015, p.265-283 (PDF via JStor)

Warner, Sam Bass, American urban form, MIT Press, HT123 .W228 2012

Wilson, Richard Guy, “Idealism and the origin of the first American suburb: Llewellyn Park, New Jersey,” American Art Journal, October 1979, p.79-90 (PDF via JStor)

Blokker, Laura Ewen & Heather A. Knight, “Louisiana bousillage: the migration and evolution of a French building technique in North America,” Construction History, Vol.28, #1, 2013, p.27-48 (PDF via JStor)

Broeksmit, Susan Begley & Anne T. Sullivan, “Dry-press brick: a nineteenth-century innovation in building technology,” APT Bulletin, Vol.37, #1, 2006, p.45-52 (PDF via JStor)

Davidson, “Early American lighting,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, v. 3, #1, 1944 (PDF via JStor)

“Early roofing materials,” Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology, v. 2, #1/2, 1970 (PDF via JStor)

Hallock, Gardiner, "Pise construction in early nineteenth-century Virginia." Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.11, 2004, p.40-53 (PDF via JStor)

Lincoln, “The beginnings of the machine age in New England: David Wilkinson of Pawtucket,” The New England Quarterly, v. 6, #4, 1933 (PDF via JStor)

Marzio, “Carpentry in the Southern colonies during the eighteenth century with emphasis on Maryland and Virginia,” Winterthur Portfolio, v 7, 1972 (PDF via JStor)

Michael, “Construction of national road bed: historical and archaeological evidence,” Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology, v. 7, #4, 1975 (PDF via JStor)

Ogle, “Domestic reform and American household plumbing, 1840-1870,” Winterthur Portfolio, v. 28, #1, 1993 (PDF via JStor)

Palmer, “Glass production in eighteenth-century America: the Wistarburgh enterprise,” Winterthur Portfolio, v. 11, 1976 (PDF via JStor)

Peterson, Charles E., “Notes on copper roofing in America to 1802,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1965, p.313-318 (PDF via JStor)

Peterson, Fred W., “Anglo-American wooden frame farmhouse in the Midwest, 1830-1900: origins of balloon frame construction,” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol.8, 2000, p.3-16 (PDF via JStor)

Hayward, Mary Ellen, “Urban vernacular architecture in nineteenth-century Baltimore,” Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 1981, p.33-63 (PDF via JStor)

"Federal style,"Oxford Art Online

Hamlin, Talbot, Greek revival architecture in America, Dover, NA705.H32

Hamlin, Talbot, “The Greek revival in America and some of its critics,” The Art Bulletin, September 1942, p.244-258 (PDF via JStor)

Whitehill, Walter Muir, Palladio in America, Rizzoli, NA1123.P2 W5 1978

Nicoletta, Julie, “Sisters’ retiring room from the North family dwelling, Mount Lebanon, New York, ca. 1845,” Winterthur Portfolio, Summer/Autumn 2012, p.E37-E43 (PDF via JStor)

Nicoletta, Julie, “The architecture of control: Shaker dwelling houses and the reform movement in early-nineteenth-century America,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol.62, #3, 2003, p.352-387 (PDF via JStor)

Ray, Mary Lyn, “A reappraisal of Shaker furniture and society,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.8, 1973, p.107-132 (PDF via JStor)

Rocheleau, Paul & June Sprigg, Shaker built: the form and function of Shaker architecture, Monacelli Press, NA710 .R62 1994

Schiffer, Herbert F., Shaker architecture, Schiffer Publishing, NA710.S28

Shaker Historic Trail, online tour of Shaker communities provided by the National Park Service

Shaker Museum & Library, Mount Lebanon, New York

West, Arthur T., “Reminiscences of life in a Shaker village,” The New England Quarterly, June 1938, p.343-360 (PDF via JStor)

Gebhard, David, “Some additional observations on California's Monterey tradition,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 1987, p.157-170 (PDF via JStor)

Gebhard, David, “The Spanish Colonial Revival in Southern California (1895-1930),” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, May 1967, p.131-147 (PDF via JStor)