Rowhouse Bibliography

Posted in Guides on Wed Oct 4, 06 by Kyle under Domestic Architecture and Books.

In honor of my ongoing obsession with row houses of all kinds I’ve decide to compile a bibliography of books of note concerning the topic. Expect this to grow as I come across new resources, please bookmark and visit back if the topic interests you.

General and Social Aspects

• Hoffmann, Hubert. Row Houses and Cluster Houses: An International Survey. New York: Praeger, 1967.
• Binney, Marcus. Town Houses: Urban Houses from 1200 to the Present Day. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1998.
• Herman, Bernard. Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780—1830 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Ohmohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, 2005.

By Nation and Region

United States of America

• Gorlin, Alexander. The New American Town House. New York: Rizzoli, 1999.
• Gorlin, Alexander. Creating the New American Town House. New York: Rizzoli, 2005.

Baltimore

• Alexander, Robert L. “Baltimore Row Houses of the Early Nineteenth Century.” American Studies 16 (Fall 1975): 65—76.
• Hayward, Mary Ellen and Charles Belfoure. The Baltimore Rowhouse. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001.
• Shivers, Natalie W. Those Placid Rows: The Aesthetic and Development of the Old Baltimore Rowhouse. Baltimore: Maclay & Assoc., 1981.

Boston

• Bunting, Bainbridge. Houses of Boston’s Back Bay, An Architectural History, 1840—1917. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.

New York City

• Lockwood, Charles. Bricks & Brownstone: the New York Row House, 1783-1929, An Architectural & Social History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.

San Francisco

• Moudon, Anne Vernez. Built for change: Neighborhood Architecture in San Francisco. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 1986.

The United Kingdom

• Muthesius, Stefan. The English Terraced House. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

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