This incredibly rich, firsthand source for the most popular styles of 19th-century Victorian architecture presents 26 cottage designs — including Gothic, bracketed, Italianate, "rustic," more — and 155 illustrations (includes floor plans). The small, inexpensive detached house received one of its earliest popularizations here.
American Victorian Cottage Homes by Palliser & Co. Reprinted from a rare 1878 offering published by a leading Northeastern architectural firm. Front and side elevations, floor plans and descriptions of 50 "practical designs of low and medium priced houses."
Victorian Dwellings for Village and Country (1885) by S. B. Reed Rare catalog includes floor plans and elevations for 35 different residences, from a one-story seaside summer cottage ($700) to a five-story villa with over 15 rooms, furnace, gas, and "speaking tubes" ($10,000). 149 illustrations.
