Late Victorian Architectural Plans And Details

This authentic reproduction of plans drawn up by a noted nineteenth-century architectural firm features both residential and public buildings. Hundreds of illustrations include floor plans, perspective views, and elevations as well as designs for staircases, fireplaces, and other interior details. Other drawings depict windows, doors, balconies, and gables. Photographs offer crisp views of exteriors. Victorian architecture buffs will prize this excellent source of authentic period designs. Its 126 plates comprise 87 images of residences; the remaining 39 structures include a field club building, stables, a library, a school, a railroad station, a dry goods store, and a music hall. Captions describe locations, dimensions, costs, and other particulars.

Victorian architecture, with its quirky diversity, eclectic origins, and exuberant ornamentation, continues to exert a strong attraction on today's architects, builders, and homeowners. For those interested in restoring, preserving, or even re-creating Victorian homes, authentic plans and designs are invaluable. This volume, meticulously reproduced from a rare nineteenth-century publication, offers an exceptionally rich pictorial record of actual mid- to late-Victorian designs. Extremely clear and detailed engravings — drawn to scale — present elevations, floor plans, perspectives, and other drawings (in some cases, complete framing plans) for country houses and cottages in a variety of styles: Queen Anne, Eastlake, Elizabethan, Colonial, Jacobean, Southern, Californian, and more. There are even designs for several store and office fronts, with counters, shelving, etc. Supplementing the large number of complete designs are nearly 700 large-scale drawings of virtually every architectural detail, many embodying the unique "gingerbread" that characterizes Victorian buildings. Included are clear, precise renderings of balusters, brackets, dormers, fireplaces, finials, gables, mantels, moldings, newels, porches, rafters, rosettes, staircases, transoms, verandahs, wainscoting, windows, and hundreds of other features. Restorers of old houses, preservationists, students of American architectural history, admirers of Victoriana, and anyone interested in the Victorian Gothic styles that dominated American domestic architecture in the late 1800s will want to have this inexpensive treasury of authentic century-old plans and details.

This reprint of an 1882 publication features 52 plates of original designs by the author and other architects. Images include fireplaces, staircases, windows, parlors, libraries, and other interiors of residences, offices, and stores.

1897 house plans catalog contains drawings, floor plans, and descriptions of 40 elegant Victorian houses and cottages, and much more. Faithfully reproduced from a rare edition. 120 illustrations.

Originally published in 1878, this now-rare collection of designs supplies views of a remarkable variety of modestly priced structures: houses, villas, cottages, many others. Handsome drawings of perspective views and elevations, some of which include floor plans, plus suggestions for interior design. 98 black-and-white illustrations.

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.

Complete reprint of charming, turn-of-the-century collection includes stylish private homes ranging from a two-story cottage with a servant’s room costing $1,000, to a two-story house with five bedrooms and four fireplaces, priced at $3,300. Invaluable to house restorers, preservationists, and architectural historians. 165 black-and-white illustrations.

Drawings, floor plans, elevations, specifications, and vintage cost estimates depict 20 distinctive Victorian structures, from cottages to mansions. Includes more than 580 black-and-white illustrations, reproduced from a rare 1869 catalog.