Dale Patrick Wolicki. The Historic Architecture of Bay
City, Michigan.
Bay
County Historical Society, 1998.
This is the essential book about all aspects and periods of Bay
City's historic architecture. You may find your own house in here, or one of
its close relatives.
The Aladdin Company. Aladdin "Built in a Day" House Catalog, 1917.
Reprint.
Dover Publications, 1995.
Bay City is the proud home of many Aladdin "kit" houses, from fine
Center Avenue district homes to cottages and even garages and back porches.
Dover also publishes a number of other interesting books on Victorian architecture.
Virginia & Lee McAlester. A Field Guide to
American Houses. Knopf, 2000.
"The guide that enables you to identify, and place in their historic
and architectural contexts, the houses you see in your neighborhood or in your
travels across America--houses built for American families (rich, poor, and in-between),
in city and countryside, from the 17th century to the present." This important
book shows many of the different kinds of houses to be found in Bay City, including
information about when they were built and how you can tell. Here's
a useful review of this book.
Want ideas for painting your house? These are several of the great sourcebooks put together by Pomada & Larsen. If you look them up on Amazon.com, you'll find similar books by other authors.
Elizabeth Pomada & Michael Larsen. How
to Create Your Own Painted Lady: A Comprehensive Guide to Beautifying Your
Victorian Home. E.P. Dutton, 1989.
Elizabeth Pomada & Michael Larsen. America's
Painted Ladies: the Ultimate Celebration of Our Victorians. Viking
Studio Books, 1994.
Elizabeth Pomada & Michael Larsen. Daughters
of Painted Ladies: America's Resplendent Victorians. E.P. Dutton, 1987.
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