Sometime last year, someone (I think it was David Rotenstein) sent out a
rock faced concrete bibliography on one of the listservs. I copied it and
saved it on my hard drive (for just such an occasion). I've also added some
of the citations from this recent thread and some other stuff that sounded
useful. Hope this helps.

Architectural Forum
1939    The Lowly Concrete Block Gets its First Taste of Standardization.
Architectural Forum  70(5): 367-377.

Bergmann,  Richard and Karen Donnely.
1995    Foster's Building Block. Building Renovation, Spring 1995 p. 52.

Cotton, J. Randall
1984    Ornamental Concrete Block Houses. Old House Journal 12(8): 165, 180-183.

Cotton, J. Randall
1995    Return to Concrete Block Houses. Old House Journal 23(2): 32-39.

Gillespie, Ann
1973    The "Miracle" and the "Wizard": Preliminary Notes on Concrete Building
Block Machines. APT Bulletin 5(2): 67-71.
1979    Early Development of the Artistic Concrete Block: The Case of the Boyd
Brothers. APT Bulletin 11(2): 30-52.

Heckendorn, Dale.
1997    Ornamental Concrete Block Buildings in Colorado, 1900 to 1940.
National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form.
Denver: Colorado Historical Society, 1997.

Prudon, Theodore H. M.
1989    Simulating Stone, 1860-1940. APT Bulletin 21(3-4):79-end.

Simpson, Pamela
1989    Cheap, Quick, and Easy: The Early History of Rockfaced Concrete Block
Building. In Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, III, editors Thomas
Carter and Bernard L. Herman, pages 108-119. University of Missouri Press,
Columbia, Missouri.

Simpson, Pamela
1995    Blocks Like Rock. Building Renovation, Spring 1995, pp. 49-53.

Simpson, Pamela
1999    Cheap, Quick, & Easy:  Imitative Architectural Materials, 1870-1930.
University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

Simpson, Pamela H., Harry J. Hunderman and Deborah Slaton
1995    Concrete Block. In 20th Century Building Materials, editor Thomas C.
Jester, pages 80-85, McGraw-Hill, New York.

Stephenson, Margaret Long
1979    The Origins of Concrete Block and Artificial Stone in Nineteenth
Century America. Unpublished master's thesis, Department of Architectural
History, University of Virginia.





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