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Reprint of rare book contains scores of illustrations and floor plans for 80 charming American homes, among them a spacious Pennsylvania fieldstone colonial; a modest, three-bedroom suburban bungalow; and an artist's two-story studio/residence in California. An invaluable primary reference for architects and students of architectural history. 104 black-and-white illustrations.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very interesting house plans from that era. There were one or two that I really liked and will bear them in mind.
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Country and Suburban Houses of the Twenties - Dover Publications
Country and Suburban Houses of the Twenties: With Photographs and Floor Plans
Bernard Close
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2004, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1922 by the Architectural Book Publishing Co., New York, under the title American Country Houses of Today: Small Houses, Bungalows, Etc. The only significant alteration consists in moving the frontispiece from its original position inside the book to the inside front cover.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
American country houses of today.
Country and suburban houses of the twenties : with photographs and floor plans / edited by Bernard Wells Close.
p. cm.
Originally published: American country houses of today. New York : Architectural Book Pub. Co., 1922.
9780486169774
1. Country homes—United States—Designs and plans. 2. Suburban homes—United States—Designs and plans. 3. Architecture—United States—20th century—Designs and plans. I. Close, Bernard Wells. II. Title.
NA7561.A67 2004
728’.37’097309042—dc22
2004055108
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y 11501
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
PREFACE
COUNTRY AND SUBURBAN HOUSES OF THE TWENTIES
Beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any,
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