Reprint of rare catalog by one of America's most successful, late-19th-century domestic architects, with more than 100 designs for 68 houses. Elevations and floor plans for custom-designed homes in the Colonial, Romanesque, and Queen Anne styles, as well as plans for verandas, summer pavilions, and barns. Invaluable to architectural historians, preservationists, and home restorers. Unabridged republication of The Cottage Souvenir No. 2: Containing One Hundred and Twenty Original Designs in Cottage and Detail Architecture, originally published by S. B. Newman and Co., Knoxville, TN, 1891.
Palliser's New Cottage Homes by Palliser & Co. 250 original designs — including floor plans, elevations, and perspective views — for a variety of charming private residences, from a four-room beach house to a four-bedroom country home. 1,500 black-and-white illustrations.
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.
Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works by Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer First important study of leading 19th-century architect, the pioneer of Romanesque Revival. Plans, photographs, drawings, and detailed discussions of all of Richardson's major buildings, including Trinity Church in Boston, Harvard Law School, and many others.
Barber's Turn-of-the-Century Houses: Elevations and Floor Plans by George F. Barber Created by a noted Knoxville, Tennessee, firm with a successful mail-order business, this architectural snapshot features working floor plans and fine drawings of over 80 distinctive vintage dwellings.
