Elegant Small Homes of the Twenties: 99 Designs from a Competition
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Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2008, was originally published as the Chicago Tribune Book of Homes, Chicago Tribune, in 1927. A new introduction by Daniel D. Reiff has been prepared for this edition.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Elegant small homes of the twenties : 99 designs from a competition / Chicago Tribune.
p. cm.
Originally published: Chicago tribune book of homes. c1927.
9780486138213
1. Architecture, Domestic—United States—Designs and plans. 2. Architecture, Domestic—United States—20th century—Designs and plans. I. Chicago Tribune (Firm) II. Title.
NA7208.C45 2008
728.0973’09042—dc22
2008028455
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
Introduction to the Dover Edition
by Daniel D. Reiff, PhD
If a middle- or upper-middle-class family in the Chicago area wanted to have a five- or six-room house erected for themselves in 1927, what were their options? Although one’s first inclination might be to consult an architect or builder,
there were in fact a number of choices—some quite economical—open to them.
One route would have been, after consulting a house-plan book, to order the plans and specifications for their home from a mail-order plan company. These had existed for well over a century: The first mail-order plans seem to date to 1856, and the service grew energetically through the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In the Chicago area two of the most popular