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Hollister, Paul M. (Paul Merrick), b. 1890, Preston, Ja. (James) · 1921 · Philadelphia, David McKay company · 14 pictures

A 1921 popular history of American colonial dwellings written by Paul M. Hollister and illustrated by James Preston, published in Philadelphia by David McKay for general and young readers. The color plates show houses like Mount Vernon in loose pen outline with watercolor washes — brick and clapboard facades, dooryard trees, small costumed figures — useful for period architecture, muted palettes, and captioned plate layouts.

Historic buildings · Architecture, Colonial · Architecture, Domestic · Dwellings

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