This course is a guide to identifying and naming the most common forms of American housing. In addition to traditional stylistic names for the exterior of larger houses, like Colonial Revival and Queen Anne, this course will provide ways to name and classify all houses by their exterior forms and especially by identifying their interior floor plans. A goal of this course is to be able to identify the most common types of houses in your neighborhood or town.
For reference but not required:
Thomas Hubka, Houses Without Names, Univ. of Tennessee Press
Thomas Hubka, How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940, Univ. of Minnesota Press
