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Victorian Domestic Architectural Plans and Details: 734 Scale Drawings of Doorways, Windows, Staircases, Moldings, Cornices, and Other Elements
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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.
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Victorian Domestic Architectural Plans and Details - William T. Comstock
DOVER BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
ALADDIN BUILT IN A DAY
HOUSE CATALOG, 1917, The Aladdin Co. (0-486-28591-X)
CONCRETE COUNTRY RESIDENCES: Photographs and Floor Plans of Turn-of-the-Century Homes, Atlas Portland Cement Company. (0-486-42733-1)
BADGER’S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF CAST-IRON ARCHITECTURE, Daniel D. Badger. (0-486-24223-4)
BENNETT’S SMALL HOUSE CATALOG, 1920, Ray H. Bennett Lumber Co., Inc. (0-486-27809-3)
BICKNELL’S VICTORIAN BUILDINGS, A. J. Bicknell. (0-486-23904-7)
THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA: History and Speculation, James Bonwick. (0-486-42521-5)
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURE, Somers Clarke and R. Engelbach. (0-486-26485-8)
TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY HOUSE DESIGNS, William T. Comstock. (0-486-28186-8)
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, Clarence Cook. (0-486-28586-3)
GREAT BUILDINGS OF BOSTON, George M. Cushing, Jr. (0-486-24219-6)
THE ARCHITECTURAL PLATES FROM THE ENCYCLOPEDIE,
Denis Diderot. (0-486-27954-5)
THE ARCHITECTURE OF
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