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Robert A.M. Stern, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, says that An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn "represents that combination of scholarship, visual analysis and judgment that is the rara avis of contemporary architectural writing." Robert E. Murphy, writing in the Brooklyn Phoenix (December 7, 2001), says: "The book is an astonishment...the most intelligent, informative celebration of Brooklyn that I have ever picked up....An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn is like a milestone carved with lively prose to mark Brooklyn's emergence from nearly a century of disparagement....No one has ever written as cogently or entertainingly about downtown or Brooklyn Heights or Cobble Hill or Park Slope."

Richard F. Shepard, Cultural Affairs Editor of The New York Times, wrote of The Architectural Guidebook to New York City: "Right from the start, the reader will realize that he is undergoing the expert ministrations of a man who understands New York and its infinite variety of constructions as few others do....In fact, this is a book that does not chart the usual walking tours but outlines the esthetics that one might look for in the course of a Manhattan amble. Each item is its own little essay, written with as much attention to the literate architecture of his wordage as to the structural architecture of what he is looking at. He can put things together as you may never have thought to....There was something that was news to me on almost every page, if not in fact then at least in some new angle of observation....If there is anything wrong with this book, it is that it will absorb you in reading when you might be out looking."

In the Philadelphia Inquirer (December 12, 1999), architecture critic Inga Saffron wrote: "Morrone...has produced something rare in An Architectural Guidebook to Philadelphia: an erudite, funny and highly opinionated reference book. He brings the buildings of Philadelphia to life with colorful anecdotal asides....if you wish to understand the history of the city through its architecture, this is the book."