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Material Culture and Architecture

Ivers, Louise, “‘Swiss Chalets’ in Long Beach,” Southern California Quarterly, 88 (Fall 2006), 267–94.

Lehmkuhl, Ursula, “Ein Kristallpalast für New York: Kulturtransfer und nationale Identitätskonstruktion in den usa vor dem Bürgerkrieg” (A crystal palace for New York: Cultural transfer and the construction of national identity in the antebellum usa), Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt, a.M.), 9 (Sept. 2006), 12–35. In German.

Martin, John, “A Symphony of Nature and Architecture: J. Frederick Larson’s Hanover College Campus,” Ohio Valley History, 6 (Fall 2006), 25–49.

Saxman, Michelle C., “The Lustron Home: An Experiment in Steel,” South Dakota History, 36 (Winter 2006), 335–66. Heavily illustrated.

 

Garrison, J. Ritchie, Two Carpenters: Architecture and Building in Early New England, 1799–1859. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. xxii, 197 pp. $48.95, isbn 1-57233-485-1.) Heavily illustrated.

Larkin, Jack, Where We Lived: Discovering the Places We Once Called Home; The American Home from 1775 to 1840. (Newtown, Conn.: Taunton, 2006. 266 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-56158-847-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Metheny, Karen Bescherer, From the Miners’ Doublehouse: Archaeology and Landscape in a Pennsylvania Coal Company Town. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. xxx, 305 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-57233-495-3.)

Reed, Roger G., Building Victorian Boston: The Architecture of Gridley J. F. Bryant. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. xiv, 224 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-55849-555-5.)

Rybczynski, Witold, and Laurie Olin, Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. xx, 274 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8122-3951-5.) Heavily illustrated.

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