- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Sterling (Mar 1 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1402723571
- ISBN-13: 978-1402723575
- Product Dimensions: 27.6 x 21.6 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 399 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #966,486 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Provides an excellent introduction as well as suggestions for using these plans to add architectural detail to your own home...an excellent bibliography."--Victorian Homes
"The best home, barn and landscape designs...in a charming book....[It] contains numerous original illustrations showing a wealth of construction details, site plans and plantings."--Fine Homebuilding
This classic bestseller contains the finest collection of architectural designs from a bygone era--and it's a boon for anyone hoping to construct that dream house or add charming touches to a modern one. Hundreds of illustrations from actual 19th century building plans feature architects' blueprints and drawings, full-color photos, and more. The buildings range from humble farmers' cabins to summer getaway cottages for the rich, and there's plenty of detail work, including built-in shelves, dormers, and turned balusters. With this information, an architect could easily create anything shown on the pages.
"The best home, barn and landscape designs...in a charming book....[It] contains numerous original illustrations showing a wealth of construction details, site plans and plantings."--Fine Homebuilding
This classic bestseller contains the finest collection of architectural designs from a bygone era--and it's a boon for anyone hoping to construct that dream house or add charming touches to a modern one. Hundreds of illustrations from actual 19th century building plans feature architects' blueprints and drawings, full-color photos, and more. The buildings range from humble farmers' cabins to summer getaway cottages for the rich, and there's plenty of detail work, including built-in shelves, dormers, and turned balusters. With this information, an architect could easily create anything shown on the pages.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A rare find of historic country building plans,
By Martha Mitchell (Florence, SC United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: American Country Building Design: Rediscovered Plans for 19th Century American Farmhouses, Cottages, Landscapes, Barns, Carriage Houses & Outbuildings (Paperback)
I am an architect designing a house for a client -it is a Charleston Style house with the master bedroom in a "carriage house" attached at the rear. This book helped me to create/design a more authentic carriage house. I am a horse lover from way back so I ate up the book front to back! I was pleased to find many examples of architectural details and embellishments. The plans of historic houses and barns are a rare treasure. Would be fun to build one of the farm houses!
5.0 out of 5 stars
A background of the evolution of early american housing,
By David W. Wright (Powhatan, VA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: American Country Building Design: Rediscovered Plans for 19th Century American Farmhouses, Cottages, Landscapes, Barns, Carriage Houses & Outbuildings (Paperback)
Donald J. Berg does an outstanding job of showing the evolution of the designs and the backgrounds of the designers of single family housing primarily in the 19th century. The plans and illustrations are excellent for those that want to use them as a guide for present day construction.
5.0 out of 5 stars
helpful, intersting, but left one thing out,
By A Customer
This review is from: American Country Building Design: Rediscovered Plans for 19th Century American Farmhouses, Cottages, Landscapes, Barns, Carriage Houses & Outbuildings (Paperback)
I'm finding this book intersting in all respects, but the author left out an important country structure the house-barn(housebarn)
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