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This fascinating book presents a series of 44 designs for vacation homes of varying styles and sizes, created over a century ago by a select group of New York and New Jersey architects. Many of them are two-story, and most were intended to be built on low-to-medium budgets. All of them reflect the ideals of comfort and charm and state-of-the-art technology of the Victorian period.
The original publishers compiled a splendid variety of designs, presented them as "seaside and country houses" and included designs for a Victorian club house, pavilion, school house, and a "small seaside chapel." A total of 200 illustrations — including perspective views, front and side elevations, and first- and second-story floor plans — depict these appealing designs. Occasionally the architects have specified construction materials and finishing details such as paint, color, and trim, and in all cases they have included the overall anticipated costs, which range from about $500 to about $9,000.
The Victorians, of course, loved architectural embellishments of every kind, and it is no small part of the charm of this book to study the profusion of gables, porches, portholes, dormers, porticoes, chimneys, pinnacles, and more, lavished on even the most modest designs. Above all, the houses and cottages appear to be both comfortable and reassuring, appealing reminders of a gracious age long gone. Those studying and working in the fields of architecture, history, and sociology will find in this wonderful book exuberant examples of a rich and charming architectural style. Those who wish to join the growing number of home builders and restorers re-creating Victorian homes will find inspiration in each of these thoughtful designs.
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Country Houses and Seaside Cottages of the Victorian Era - William T. Comstock
DOVER BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
ALADDIN BUILT IN A DAY
HOUSE CATALOG, 1917, The Aladdin Co. (28591-X)
HISTORIC MANHATTAN APARTMENT HOUSES, Andrew Alpern. (28872-2)
AIA ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE TO NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES, LONG ISLAND, The American Inst. of Architects, Long Island Chapter, and The Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities. (26946-9)
BADGER’S ILLUSTRATED CATALOG OF CAST-IRON ARCHITECTURE, Daniel D. Badger. (24223-4)
BENNETT’S SMALL HOUSE CATALOG, 1920, Ray H. Bennett Lumber Co., Inc. (27809-3)
BICKNELL’S VICTORIAN BUILDINGS, A. J. Bicknell. (23904-7)
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CONSTRUCTION & ARCHITECTURE, Somers Clarke and R. Engelbach. (26485-8)
TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY HOUSE DESIGNS, William T. Comstock. (28186-8)
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, Clarence Cook. (28586-3)
GREAT BUILDINGS OF BOSTON, George M. Cushing, Jr. (24219-6)
THE ARCHITECTURAL PLATES FROM THE ENCYCLOPEDIE,
Denis Diderot. (27954-5)
THE ARCHITECTURE OF COUNTRY HOUSES, Andrew J. Downing. (22003-6)
VICTORIAN COTTAGE RESIDENCES, Andrew J. Downing. (24078-9)
PRINCIPLES OF VICTORIAN DECORATIVE DESIGN, Christopher Dresser. (28900-1)
PALLADIO’S ARCHITECTURE AND ITS INFLUENCE: A PHOTOGRAPHIC GUIDE, Joseph C. Farber and Henry Hope Reed. (23922-5)
CAST-IRON ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK, Margot Gayle and Edmund V. Gillon, Jr. (22980-7)
EARLY ILLUSTRATIONS AND VIEWS OF AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE, E. V. Gillon, Jr. (22750-2)
VICTORIAN HOUSES: A TREASURY OF LESSER-KNOWN EXAMPLES, Edmund Gillon and Clay Lancaster. (22966-1)
BEAUX-ARTS ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK: A PHOTOGRAPHIC GUIDE, Edmund V. Gillon, Jr. and Henry Hope Reed. (25698-7)
PHILADELPHIA THEATERS, Irvin R. Glazer. (27833-6)
117 HOUSE DESIGNS OF THE 20s, Gordon-Van Tine Co. (26959-0)
FORM, FUNCTION, AND DESIGN, Paul Jacques Grillo. (20182-1)
THE DECORATIVE DESIGNS OF FRANK LLOYD
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