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    Turn-of-the-Century House Designs: With Floor Plans, Elevations and Interior Details of 24 Residences
    Turn-of-the-Century House Designs: With Floor Plans, Elevations and Interior Details of 24 Residences
    Turn-of-the-Century House Designs: With Floor Plans, Elevations and Interior Details of 24 Residences
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    Turn-of-the-Century House Designs: With Floor Plans, Elevations and Interior Details of 24 Residences

    By William T. Comstock

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    Designs and plans for constructing country homes with over 130 illustrations depicting interior and exterior designs, perspectives, and more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJan 31, 2013
    ISBN9780486157689
    Turn-of-the-Century House Designs: With Floor Plans, Elevations and Interior Details of 24 Residences

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      THE ARCHITECTURAL PLATES FROM THE ENCYCLOPEDIE, Denis Diderot. (27954-5)

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      THE DECORATIVE DESIGNS OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, David A. Hanks. (40730-6)

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      THE ARCHITECTURE OF MCKIM, MEAD & WHITE IN PHOTOGRAPHS, PLANS AND ELEVATIONS, McKim, Mead, and White. (26556-0)

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      Paperbound unless otherwise indicated. Available at your book dealer, online at www.doverpublications.com, or by writing to Dept. 23, Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, NY 11501. For current price information or for free catalogs (please indicate field of interest), write to Dover Publications or log on to www.doverpublications.com and see every Dover book in print. Each year Dover publishes over 500 books on fine art, music, crafts and needlework, antiques, languages, literature, children’s books, chess, cookery, nature, anthropology, science, mathematics, and other areas.

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      Turn-of-the-Century House Designs

      With Floor Plans, Elevations and Interior Details of 24 Residences

      William T. Comstock

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 1994, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by William T. Comstock, New York, in 1893 under the title Suburban and Country Homes.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Suburban and country homes.

      Turn-of-the-century house designs : with floor plans, elevations, and interior details of 24 residences / William T. Comstock.

      p. cm.

      Originally published: Suburban and country homes. New York : W.T. Comstock, 1893.

      9780486157689

      1. Suburban homes—United States—Designs and plans. 2. Eclecticism in architecture—United States. I. Comstock, William T. II. Title.

      NA7571. S84 1994

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