Victorian Cottage Residences
- ISBN-10
- 0486240789
- ISBN-13
- 9780486240787
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 261
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1981
- Publisher
- Courier Corporation
- Author
- Andrew Jackson Downing
Description
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.
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