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Victorian Cottage Residences (Dover Architectural Series)
Andrew Jackson Downing
Dover Publications
, 1981 - 352 pages
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This incredibly rich, firsthand source for the most popular styles of 19th-century
Victorian
architecture presents 26
cottage
designs ? including Gothic, bracketed, Italianate, "rustic," more ? and 155 illustrations (includes floor plans). The small, inexpensive detached house received one of its earliest popularizations here.
A.J.Downing set a standard for early Victorian architecture.
A.J. Downing set the style for country suburban
Victorian
Cottage
s and gardens along the Hudson River in the 1830's and 1840's. All of his "cottages" featured fireplaces and
architectural
ly important chimneys, usually with decorative chimney tops. Borrowing from painting and fine arts, Downing had definite opinions about color and appropriate use of materials. Provocative and interesting reading this book of cottage and garden plans and sketches is well worth reading. He set a standard for early Victorian architecture. - Jim Buckley
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Victorian
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" is a comprehensive book of twenty-something floor plans, mostly of Victorian houses (obviously) both large and small. For those into landscaping as well, this book is doubly wonderful; otherwise the advice on the apple trees is probably better skipped. However, for anyone who's even remotely interested in old homes or houses in general, this is a fantastic book to check out.
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