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A beautiful and comprehensive chronicle of two of The us’s earliest and most luxurious suburbs: Highland Park and University Park, Texas, featuring over 300 fullcolor photographs.
Dallas local Virginia McAlester, creator of A Field Guide to American Houses, the classic book at the subject, and Abbeville’s celebrated Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles, teamed up with Prudence Mackintosh and Willis Cecil Winters to put in writing Homes of the Park Cities, Dallas. This impressive and informative case study immerses readers into the architecture and culture, both past and present, of these classy neighborhoods.
Illustrated with over 280 specially commissioned photographs, along with over 75 maps, graphs, and archival images, this insightful work covers the history and development of Dallas’s suburbs, in addition to the architects who designed them. Homes also features a number of appendices, providing notes on how you can preserve earlytwentieth century homes and a catalogue listing over 1,600 homes by address and architect. McAlester authored an additional appendix that illustrates the architectural styles found in The Park Cities, which run the gamut from Tudor and Colonial Revival to Minimal Traditional and MidCentury Up to date.
As grand as the homes it chronicles, Homes of the Park Cities, Dallas will fascinate architects, historians, suburbanites, and wouldbe suburbanites alike.
Dallas local Virginia McAlester, creator of A Field Guide to American Houses, the classic book at the subject, and Abbeville’s celebrated Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles, teamed up with Prudence Mackintosh and Willis Cecil Winters to put in writing Homes of the Park Cities, Dallas. This impressive and informative case study immerses readers into the architecture and culture, both past and present, of these classy neighborhoods.
Illustrated with over 280 specially commissioned photographs, along with over 75 maps, graphs, and archival images, this insightful work covers the history and development of Dallas’s suburbs, in addition to the architects who designed them. Homes also features a number of appendices, providing notes on how you can preserve earlytwentieth century homes and a catalogue listing over 1,600 homes by address and architect. McAlester authored an additional appendix that illustrates the architectural styles found in The Park Cities, which run the gamut from Tudor and Colonial Revival to Minimal Traditional and MidCentury Up to date.
As grand as the homes it chronicles, Homes of the Park Cities, Dallas will fascinate architects, historians, suburbanites, and wouldbe suburbanites alike.
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