MARY WASHINGTON COLLEGE
            DEPARTMENT OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION
                   FIELDWORK BIBLIOGRAPHY

STYLE GUIDES AND GLOSSARIES

I. H. Adams. $Agrarian Landscape Terms: A Glossary for His-
torical Geography$.  Special Publication Series number 9.
London: Institute of British Geographers, 1977.  Reprinted
and revised version, originally printed in 1976.

Ned Alcock, et al.  $Recordings Timber-Framed Buildings: An
Illustrated Glossary$.  Practical Handbooks in Archaeology
5. London: Council for British Archaeology, 1989.

John J. G. Blumenson  $Identifying American Architecture: A
Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945$. 2nd edi-
tion. Nashville: American Association for State and Local
History, 1986.

R. W. Brunskill, $An Illustrated Handbook of Vernacular Ar-
chitecture$. New York: Universe Books, 1971.

R. W. Brunskill and Alec Clifton-Taylor, $English Brick-
work$. London: Hyperion Books, 1978.

Herbert Gottfried and Jan Jennings. $American Vernacular De-
sign 1870-1940: An Illustrated Glossary$. New York: Van
Nostrand Reinhold, 1985.

Virginia and Lee McAlester. $A Field Guide to American
Houses$. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

Steven J. Phillips.  $Old-House Dictionary$.  Lakewood,
Colorado: American Source Books, 1989.

John C. Poppeliers, S. Allen Chambers, and  Nancy B.
Schwartz. $What Style Is It?$ Washington, D.C.: Preservation
Press, 1983.

Carole Rifkind. $A Field Guide to American Architecture$.
New York: New American Library, 1980.

Dell Upton, editor, $America's Architectural Roots: Ethnic
Groups that Built America$. Washington, D.C.: The Preserva-
tion Press, 1986.

Marcus Whiffen. $American Architecture Since 1780: A Guide
to Styles$. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Press, 1969.


BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDICES

John Archer, $The Literature of British Domestic Architec-
ture 1715-1842$. Cambridge & London:   , 1985.

Howard Colvin's $A Biographical Dictionary of British Ar-
chitects 1600-1840$. London, 1978.

John A. Cuthbert, Barry Ward, Maggie Keeler.  $Vernacular
architecture in America: a selective bibliography$.  Boston:
G.K. Hall, 1985.

Historic American Buildings Survey.  $Virginia Catalog$.
Charlottesville:  University of Virginia Press, 1976.

Henry-Russell Hitchcock.  $American Architectural Books$.
New Expanded Edition. Originally published, University of
Minnesota Press, 1946.  New York: Da Capo Press, 1976.

Howard Wight Marshall.  $American Folk Architecture: A
Selected Bibliography$. Publications of the American Folk-
life Center Number 8.  Washington, D.C.: Library of Con-
gress, 1981.

Helen Park, "A List of Architectural Books Available in
America Before the Revolution," $Journal of the Society of
Architectural Historians$  (Ocotber, 1961)  . Separately
printed in a revised edition, Los Angeles: Henessey and In-
galls, 1973.

Janice G. Schimmelman. $Architectural Treatises and Building
Handbooks Available in American Libraries and Bookstores
through 1800$. Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian
Society 1986.

Kurt Alexander Sommer.  $Bauernhof-Bibliographie$.
Stuttgart: Anton Hiersmann, 1979.  Originally printed in
1944.

Dell Upton,  "Vernacular Architecture in Virginia:  A Bibli-
ography."  $Folklore and Folklife in Virginia$. Vol. 1
(1979) 73-94.

Vernacular Architecture Forum. $Vernacular architecture
newsletter$. 1979--

DOCUMENTATION STANDARDS

American Institute of Architects. $Architectural Graphic
Standards$, eighth edition.  New York: John Wiley & Sons,
Inc., 1988. (historic preservation section)

John Blumenson and Jill Taylor, "Guidelines for the Record-
ing of Heritage Buildings." $APT$ 22:1&2(1990)109-116.

John A Burns, editor, $Recording Historic Structures$. Wash-
ington, D.C.: American Institute of Architects Press, 1989.

Appendix lists the Secretary of the Interior Standards for
Architectural and Engineering Documentation.

Frank Ching, $Architectural Graphics$, second edition.  New
York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1985.

Jeff Dean, $Architectural Photography$. Nashville: American
Association of State and Local History, 1981.

Harley J. McKee, $Recording Historic Buildings$. Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1970.

Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service,
U.S. Department of the Interior. $Guidelines for Recording
Historic Ships$. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service,
1988.

National Trust for Historic Preservation. $Guidelines for
Maritime Documentation$. Washington D.C.: National Trust
Maritime Department, 1988.

THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES ON VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURAL DES-
CRIPTION

R. W. Brunskill, $A Systematic Procedure for Recording
English Vernacular Architecture$. London: Ancient Monuments
Society, 1976.

Edward Chappell, "Looking at Buildings," $Fresh Advices$
(November, 1984) i-vi.

Edward Chappell, "Architectural Recording and the Open Air
Museum." in $Perspectives in Architecture, II$.  Edited by
Camille Wells. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986.
24-36

Francis Downing and Thomas C. Hubka, "Diagramming: A Visual
Language." in $Perspectives in Architecture, II$.  Edited by
Camille Wells. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986.
44-52.

Barbara J. Howe et al. $Houses and Homes: Exploring Their
History$.  Nearby History Series, volume 2. Nashville: Amer-
ican Association of State and Local History, 1987.

Warren Roberts, "Recording Material Culture," in $Folklore
and Folklife: An Introduction$, edited by Richard M. Dorson.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972. 431-444.

Dell Upton, "Vernacular Domestic Architecture in Eighteenth
Century Virginia." $Winterthur Portfolio$ 17:2/3 (Sum-
mer/Autumn, 1982): 95- 119.

Thomas Winter & Peter Schulz, "A Systematic Approach to His-
toric Structures Reports."  $APT$ 22:1&2(1990) 142-148.

AMERICAN VERNACULAR DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTIONS

Paul Buchanan, "The Eighteenth-Century Frame Houses of
Tidewater Virginia," in Charles E. Peterson, editor, $Build-
ing Early America: Contributions Toward the History of a
Great Industry$. Radnor, Pennsylvania: Chilton Book Company,
1976. 54-73.

Abbott Lowell Cummings, $Framed House of Massachusetts Bay,
1625-1725$. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Andrew Jackson Downing,  $The Architecture of Country
Houses$. 1850. Reprint. New York: Dover Press, 1969.

Henry H. Glassie, $Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Struc-
tural Analysis of Historic Artifacts$. Knoxville: University
of Tennessee Press, 1975.

Henry H. Glassie, "Types of the Southern Mountain Cabin." in
$The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction$ 2nd edi-
tion, ed. by Jan Brunvand, pp. 391-420. New York: W.W.
Norton, 1978.

Bernard Herman and David G. Orr, "An Excursion into the
Analysis of Southern Vernacular Architecture."  $Southern
Folklore Quarterly$. Vol 39 (1975), 307-27.

Fred B. Kniffen.  "Louisiana House Types."  $Annals of the
Association of American Geographers$.$ $Vol. 26 (Dec., 1936)
179-193.

Norman Morrison Isham and Albert F. Brown, "Early Rhode Is-
land Houses." in $Common Places: Readings in American
Vernacular Architecture$.  Edited by Dell Upton and John
Michael Vlach. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.
149-158.

Frederick J. Kelly, $The Early Domestic Architecture of Con-
necticut$. 1924. Reprint. New York: Dover Publications,
1963.

Kniffen, Fred. "Folk Housing: Key to Diffusion." $Annals of
the Association of American Geographers$ 55 (1965): 549-577.

Christopher Martin, "'Hope Deferred': The Origin and Devel-
opment of Alexandria's Flounder House." in $Perspectives in
Architecture, II$.  Edited by Camille Wells. Columbia: Uni-
versity of Missouri Press, 1986. 111-119.

Dell Upton, "Early Vernacular Architecture in Southeastern
Virginia." Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, 1980.

Nancy Van Dolsen, "Brick-Cased Houses of Cumberland County,
Pennsylvania." in $Perspectives in Architecture, III$.

Edited by Thomas Carter and Bernard L. Herman. Columbia:
University of Missouri Press, 1986. 99-107.

Camille Wells.  $Canton: The Architecture of Our Home Town$.
Canton, N.C.: Canton Historical Commission, 1985.

American Vernacular Agricultural and Commercial Architec-
tural Descriptions$

John Fitch, $The New World Dutch Barn: A Study of Its Char-
acteristics, Its Structural System, and Its Probable Erec-
tional Procedures$. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,
1968.

Henry H. Glassie.  "Smaller Outbuildings of the Southern
Mountains." $Mountain Life and Work$.  Vol. 40 (Spring,
1964) 21-25.

Henry H. Glassie, "The Double-Crib Barn in South Central
Pennsylvania, Parts 1 and 2."  $Pioneer America$ 1 (1969):
10-16, 40-45. "Parts 3 and 4." 2 (1970): 23-34, 47-52.

Henry Glassie, "The Variation of Concepts Within Tradition:
Barn Building in Otsego County, New York." In $Man and Cul-
tural Heritage: Papers in Honor of Fred B. Kniffen$. ed. by
H. J. Walker & W. G. Haag, pp. 177-235. $Geoscience and Man$
5. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1974.

K. Edward Lay.  "Mills in the Central Piedmont Region of
Virginia."  $Echoes of History$. Vol. 4 (July, 1975) 57-64.

Lee Moffett.  $Water Powered Mills of Fauquier County, Vir-
ginia$. Warrenton: ??, 196?.

Lowell J. Soike,  $Without Right Angles: The Round Barns of
Iowa$.  Des Moine: Iowa State Historical Department, Office
of Historic Preservation, 1983).

David T. Yeomans, "British and American Solutions to a Roof-
ing Problem." $Journal of the Society of Architectural His-
torians$ L:3(September 1991), 266-272.

BRITISH VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTIONS

Lyndon F. Cave  $The Smaller English House: Its History and
Development.$ London: Hale, 1981.

Cecil A. Hewett. $The Development of Carpentry, 1200-1700:
An Essex Study$.  New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1969.

Cecil A. Hewett. "Some East Anglican Prototypes for Early
Timber House in America." $Post Medieval Archeaology$. Vol.
3 (1969), 100-121.

C. F. Innocent. $The Development of English Building Con-
struction$. Cambridge: University Press, 1916.

Eric Mercer, $English Vernacular Houses$. London: H.M.S.O.,
1975.

Anthony Quiney. $The Traditional Buildings of England$.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1990.

Peter Smith, $Houses of the Welsh Countryside: a Study in
Historical Geography$.  2nd enlarged ed.  London: H.M.S.O.,
1988.

Robert de Zouche Hall, ed.  $A bibliography on vernacular
architecture$. For the Vernacular Architecture Group.
(?)York:  Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1972.

$A Current bibliography of Vernacular Architecture, 1970-
1976.$ York, Eng.: Vernacular Architecture Group, 1979. Sup-
plement to: A bibliography on vernacular architecture,
edited by Robert de Zouche Hall.

CANADIAN VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTIONS

Nathalie Clerk. $Palladian style in Canadian architecture$.
Quebec, Canada: Canadian Govt. Pub. Centre, Supply and Ser-
vices Canada, 1984.

Continental Vernacular Architectural Descriptions$

Konrad Bedal.  $Historische Hausforschung$. Mnster:
F.Coppenrath, 1978.

Werner Blaser, $Holz Haus:Rurale Bauform$.  Basel: Wepf,
1980.

Johannes Cramer.  $Handbuch der Bauaufnahme$. Stuttgart:
Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1984.

Sigurd Erixon.  "The North-European Technique of Corner Tim-
bering." $Folkliv$ 1 (1937), 13-60.

Grithe Lerche, "Timber Framed Buildings in Denmark."
$Vernacular Architecture$ 4 (1975), 12-18.

Gwyn I. Meirion-Jones.$  The Vernacular Architecture of
Brittany : An Essay in Historical Geography$. Edinburgh: J.
Donald, 1982.

East Asian Vernacular Architectural Descriptions$

Chuji Kawashima, $Minka: traditional houses of rural Japan$.
Translated by Lynne E. Riggs.  Tokyo: Kodansha Internation-
al/USA Ltd, through Harper & Row, 1986.

Ronald G. Knapp, $China's vernacular architecture: house
form and culture$. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press,
1989.

LATIN AMERICAN VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTIONS

Francisco Javier Lopez Morales,  $Arquitectura vernacula en
Mexico$.  Mexico, D.F.: Fondo Internacional para la
Promocion de la Cultura, Unesco: Editorial Trillas, 1987.

SPECIFIC ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGIES

Carson, Cary; Barka, Norman F.; Kelso, William M.; Stone,
Garry Wheeler; and Upton, Dell. "Impermanent Architecture in
the Southern American Colonies." $Winterthur Portfolio$ 16
(1981): 135-196.

Jay D. Edwards and Tom Wells, $Historic Louisiana Nails:
Aids to the Dating of Old Buildings$. Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State University, 1993. Fred B. Kniffen Cultural Resources
Laboratory Monograph Number 2.

Whitney Clark Huntington, $Building Construction: Materials
and Types of Construction$, 5th edition. New York: John
Wiley & Sons, 1982.

H. Ward Jandl, $The Technology of Historic American Build-
ings: Studies of the Materials, Craft Processes, and the Me-
chanization of Building Construction$. Washington, D.C.:
Foundation for Preservation Technology for the Association
for Preservation Technology, 1983.

Kniffen, Fred and Glassie, Henry. "Building in Wood in the
Eastern United States: A Time-Place Perspective." $Geog-
raphical Review$ 56 (1966): 40-66.

Loth, Calder.  "Notes on the Evolution of Virginia Brickwork
from the Seventeenth Century to the late Nineteenth
Century."  $Association for Preservation Technology$. Vol.
6:2 (1974), 82-120.

Amos J. Loveday, Jr., $The Rise and Decline of the American
Cut Nail Industry: A Study in the Interrelationships of
Technology, Business Organization, and Management Techni-
ques$. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1983.

Marzio, Peter C. "Carpentry in the Southern Colonies During
the Eighteenth century with emphasis on Maryland and Vir-
ginia."  $Winterthur Portfolio$.  Vol. 7 (1972) 229-250.

Harley J. McKee, "Brick and Stone: Handicraft to Machine,"
in Charles E. Peterson, editor, $Building Early America:
Contributions Toward the History of a Great Industry$. Rad-
nor, Pennsylvania: Chilton Book Company, 1976. 74-95.

Harley J. McKee, $Introduction to Early American Masonry:
Stone, Brick, Mortar & Plaster$. Washington, D.C.: Preserva-
tion Press, 1973.

Lee H. Nelson, $Nail Chronology as an Aid to Dating Old
Buildings$. Nashville: American Association for State and
Local History, 1968. Technical Leaflet, 48.

John I. Rempel, $Building with Wood: and other aspects of
nineteenth-century building in Central Canada$, revised edi-
tion. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.

Warren Roberts, "Tools Used in Building Log Houses in Indi-
ana." $Pioneer America$ 9:1 (July, 1977): 30-61.

Pamela H. Simpson, "Cheap, Quick, and Easy: The Early His-
tory of Rockfaced Concrete Block Building." in $Perspectives
in Architecture, III$.  Edited by Thomas Carter and Bernard
L. Herman. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986.
108-118.

Dell Upton, "Board Roofing in Tidewater Virginia."   $Asso-
ciation for Preservation Technology$. Vol. 8:4 (1976), 22-
43.

David T. Yeomans, "British and American Solutions to a Roof-
ing Problem." $Journal of the Society of Architectural His-
torians$ 50:3 (September, 1991) 266-272. Raised collar vs
scissor ties in vaulted ceiling buildings.

Surveying$
Guye, Samuel and Henri Michel. $Time & space; measuring in-
struments from the 15th to the 19th century$. Photos by
Pierre Devinoy. [Translated by Diana Dolan in collaboration
with Samuel W. Mitchell].  New York: Praeger Publishers,
1971.

Sarah S. Hughes,  $Surveyors and statesmen : land measuring
in colonial Virginia$.  Richmond, Va. : Virginia Surveyors
Foundation : Virginia Association of Surveyors, 1979.

Edmond R. Kiely. $Surveying instruments : their history and
classroom use$. New York : Bureau of Publications, Teachers
College, Columbia University Press, 1947.

William David Pattison,  $Beginnings of the American rec-
tangular land survey system, 1784-1800$.  New York : Arno
Press, 1979, c1957.
CASE STUDIES

Dell Upton.  $Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Chur-
ches in Colonial Virginia$.  New York: Architectural History 
Foundation; Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986.

FIRE INSURANCE

Peter J. Aspinall. "Sources for Urban History: The Use of
Nineteenth Century Fire Insurance Plans for the Urban His-
torian." $Local Historian$. Vol 11:6(1975) 343-349.

M.W. Beresford.  "Prometheus Insured:  The Sun Fire Agency
in Leeds During Urbanization, 1716-1826." $Economic History
Review$. Vol 35:3(1982) 377-389.

J. A. Fowler, $History of Insurance in Philadelphia for Two
Centuries$.

Garvan, Anthony N.B. et al $Mutual Assurance Company for In-
suring Houses from Loss by Fire, Philadelphia; The Architec-
tural Survey, 1784-1794$. Philadelphia: Mutual Assurance
Company, 1976.

Garvan, Anthony N.B. and Carol A. Wojtowicz. $Mutual As-
surance Company for Insuring Houses from Loss by Fire,
Philadelphia; The Green Tree Collection$. Philadelphia:
Mutual Assurance Company, 1976.

Garvan, Anthony N.B. et al $Mutual Assurance Company for In-
suring Houses from Loss by Fire, Philadelphia; The Mutual
Assurance Company Papers$. Philadelphia: Mutual Assurance
Company, 1976.

$Fire insurance maps in the Library of Congress: plans of
North American cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map
Company : a checklist$.  Compiled by the Reference and Bib-
liography Section, Geography and Map Division.  Introduction
by Walter W. Ristow.  Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress,
1981.

R. Philip Hoehn.  $Union list of Sanborn fire insurance maps
held by institutions in the United States and Canada$.
Foreword by Walter W. Ristow.  Santa Cruz, CA: Western Asso-
ciation of Map Libraries, 1976-77.

James, Marquis. $Biography of a Business, 1792-1942: Insur-
ance Company of North America$. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,
1942.

Robert Riegel and Jerome S. Miller.  Fire insurance; from
Insurance Principles and Practices, third edition.  New
York: Prentice-Hall, 1948.

Sanborn Map Company. Special Services Division.  $Sanborn
services for city and regional planners$. Chicago: Sanborn
Map Co., 1957.

Sanborn Map Company.  $Description and utilization of the
Sanborn map$.   New York, 1953.