Victorian House Designs in Authentic Full Color: 75 Plates from the "Scientific American -- Architects and Builders Edition," 1885-1894

by Blanche Cirker (Editor)

Overview

Exquisitely detailed, exceptionally handsome designs for an enormous variety of attractive city dwellings, spacious suburban and country homes, charming "cottages" and other structures — all accompanied by perspective views and floor plans with measurements. Invaluable to architects, home restorers and preservationists; of immense interest to lovers of Victorian architecture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486138473
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	07/11/2012
Series:	Dover Architecture
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	29 MB
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Table of Contents

Much of American domestic architecture in the late Victorian era reflected the affluence of a new middle class. Well designed and attractively landscaped, the new homes routinely incorporated many features once available only to the very wealthy. This volume contains 75 exceptionally handsome full-color plates presenting a choice selection of these residences, as well as other buildings.
Reproduced from a rare collection of architectural designs, exquisite full-color plates depict a wide variety of cottages and clubhouses, city dwellings, suburban and country homes, and other structures — even a firehouse and a county store. Most are shown in a meticulously rendered perspective view featuring beautifully landscaped grounds with animals, bicycles, and other realistic touches, along with a complete floor plan, some including measurements.
Designed by architects based in the Northeast and Midwest, the plans embrace a broad range of styles — from a charming three-story brick and shingle "cottage" in Buffalo, New York, and a baronial, ivy-covered residence in Stamford, Connecticut, to imposing residential row houses in New York City and a huge, rambling Chicago clubhouse with turrets, towering chimneys, and a wraparound "piazza."
Of special interest to architects, home restorers, and preservationists, this splendid archive will also appeal to anyone who enjoys a nostalgic and revealing glimpse of the spacious dwellings that graced the American landscape over a century ago.

Editorial Reviews

We continue to wonder at Dover's charming, even elegant books at prices resembling those of the 50s & 60s. (The bloating megapublishers, if they ever take note, must hate & condemn this solid little house for causing book buyers to believe that good books can be produced at modest cost.) This is a fine 9." x 12" reprint of the original lithographs, many with floor plans. Edited by Blanche Cirker, wife of the estimable president, Hayward. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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