A Field Guide to American Houses is one of my favorite books. I spent several weekends in the summer of 2004 in Winston-Salem learning about houses and their housing stock. They have houses in every style and a few of their houses are actually in the book! I used this book on the trip and took photographs to bring back home to study more. I then published some of the results with what I learned from the "Field Guide" that summer on this forum's photo section. An ex girlfriend would laugh as I would attempt to identify almost every house's style we would see, but it worked. I learned my housing styles. Some people in West Salem and Washington Park thought I was with the local historical/preservation group.
Walking these neighborhoods was also good exercise and today, I don't need the book.
