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    90 Houses of the Twenties: Cottages, Bungalows and Colonials
    90 Houses of the Twenties: Cottages, Bungalows and Colonials
    90 Houses of the Twenties: Cottages, Bungalows and Colonials
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    90 Houses of the Twenties: Cottages, Bungalows and Colonials

    By Jens Pedersen and Daniel D. Reiff

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    This outstanding house plan catalog from a prominent Midwestern builder was issued on the eve of the Great Depression. Its full-color, beautifully realistic illustrations depict colonials, bungalows, duplexes, and other residences, accompanied by floor plans and detailed descriptions of interiors. A nostalgic look back at the way homes were constructed during the 1920s, this volume offers an authentic resource for modern home restorers, builders, and interior designers and a splendid browsing book for fans of architecture, advertising, and Americana. Architectural historian Daniel D. Reiff provides an informative Introduction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJul 12, 2012
    ISBN9780486141367
    90 Houses of the Twenties: Cottages, Bungalows and Colonials

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      90 Houses of the Twenties - Jens Pedersen

      At Dover Publications we’re committed to producing books in an earth-friendly manner and to helping our customers make greener choices.

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      Copyright

      Introduction to the Dover edition Copyright © 2011 by Daniel D. Reiff

      All rights reserved.

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 2011, is an unabridged republication of the fifth edition of Practical Homes, originally published by Jens Pedersen, St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1929. The illustrations, floor plans, and accompanying text for the house designs have been rearranged to better fit the trim size of the present volume. A new introduction by Daniel D. Reiff has been specially prepared for this edition.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Pedersen, Jens, 1866-1941.

      [Practical homes]

      90 houses of the twenties : cottages, bungalows, and colonials / Jens Pedersen ; with a new introduction by Daniel D. Reiff.—Dover ed.

      p. cm.

      Originally published: Practical homes. 5th ed. St. Paul. Minn. : Jens Pedersen. 1929.

      9780486141367

      1. Architecture. Domestic—United States-History-20th century—Designs and plans. I. Title. II. Title: Ninety houses of the twenties. III. Title: Cottages, bungalows, and colonials.

      NA7208.P43 2011

      728’.37022273—dc22

      2010041140

      Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

      47886601

      www.doverpublications.com

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Introduction to the Dover Edition

      Introduction to the Dover Edition

      by Daniel D. Reiff, Ph.D.

      During the prosperous 1920s, if a middle- or upper-middle-class family wanted to have an attractive, well-designed five- to seven-room house built for themselves they had several options. One’s first inclination might be to consult an architect, though architects usually did not find it profitable to design small homes. But there were in fact a number of other choices, some quite economical, open to prospective home builders, thanks to the printed book. One of the most popular routes was to consult a catalog of house-plans published by one of the many mail-order plan companies, and order their plans and specifications for the preferred dwelling. Such catalogs, which provided a whole range of house designs to choose from, were often available at lumber yards and builders’ offices; they were also advertised in popular magazines. The prospective owner could then study the many designs at leisure.

      Such plan catalogs were well known and of long standing. The first mail-order plans for houses seem to be those advertised by Cleaveland, Backus and Backus in their 1856 book of house designs Village and Farm Cottages. Other such volumes soon followed. Books of plans were published by Cummings and Miller in 1865; in the 1870s by George Palliser and also E. C. Hussey; in the 1880s books of house designs by R. W. Shoppell, and George F. Barber became popular. Some architects of this era, in their ads for their house plan catalogs, were perfectly forthright: Some architects plan seventeen-story buildings, I never have; but I do draw little, cheap cottages, and beautiful ones. If you want a house, which because of its beauty will be a joy forever, send for this book. Price, 50 cents.¹

      By 1898 one of the most prolific companies, the Chicago firm which became The Radford Architectural Company, was offering great numbers of appealing mail-order house plans. In the early twentieth century there were a vast number of such firms: Standard Homes Company of Washington, D.C. (beginning about 1921) and Home Builders Catalog Co., Chicago (beginning in 1926), were two of the most popular and prolific, each publishing hundreds of plans.² The designs provided could be for frame, for face brick (on frame construction), solid brick, or concrete dwellings.

      Jens Pedersen of St. Paul, Minnesota, published his Practical Homes catalog of 90 designs of moderately priced homes, in 1929. His was part of this legion of mail-order plan companies catering to a national audience. Pedersen had been issuing such catalogs for several years; the 1922–23 edition of Practical Homes contained 55 designs. He is listed in city directories into the late 1930s.³ (He also seems to have been linked to other publications related to building.)⁴

      House plans like these in Pedersen’s Practical Homes catalog were extremely popular. But where did he, and other such companies, get their plans? One source would have been the various building materials organizations. These organizations, to encourage homeowners and builders to use their specific product, frequently sponsored competitions for house designs, and published countless catalogs

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