Urban settings: houses and housing in the early American city
The merchant family's house
The burgher's dilemma
The servants' quarter
The widow's dower
The shipwright's lodgings
A traveler's portmanteau
A poetical city.
Town house : architecture and material life in the early American city, 1780-1830 by Bernard L. Herman. ISBN 0807829919. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.