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Originally published in 1878, this now-rare collection of designs supplies views of a remarkable variety of modestly priced structures: houses, villas, cottages, many others. Handsome drawings of perspective views and elevations, some of which include floor plans, plus suggestions for interior design. 98 black-and-white illustrations.
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100 Victorian Architectural Designs for Houses and Other Buildings - A. J. Bicknell & Co.
SIDEBOARD IN THE QUEEN ANNE STYLE.
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2002, is an unabridged republication of the illustrations and text from the work originally published in 1878 by A. J. Bicknell & Co., New York, under the title Specimen Book of One Hundred Architectural Designs.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Specimen book of one hundred architectural designs.
100 Victorian architectural designs for houses and other buildings / A.J. Bicknell & Co.
p. cm.
Originally published: Specimen book of one hundred architectural designs. New York : A.J. Bicknell & Co., 1878.
9780486146195
1. Architecture, Victorian—United States—Designs and plans. 2. Architecture, Domestic—United States—Designs and plans. 3. Architecture—United States—19th century—Designs and plans. I. Title: One hundred Victorian architectural designs for houses and other buildings. II. William T. Comstock Company. Specimen book of one hundred architectural designs.
NA7207 .S69 2002
724’.5—dc21
2002018921
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
Cheap Country Cottages.
An Ornamental Cottagege Design, - COSTING FROM $2,000 TO $2,500.
City Store Front.
Design for a Chapel Church.
Design for à Country House.
RUSSELL & BANKS,
H. W. JOHNS’ TRADE MARK ASBESTOS
WARREN WARD & CO.,
GARNKIRK CHIMNEY TOPS.
E. D. BASSFORD,
SAND BLAST WORKS,
METALLIC SHINGLES.
THE YALE LOCK
ARCHER & PANCOAST M‘F’G CO.,
MINTON’S TILES, - ENCAUSTIC AND PLAIN
Fig. 1.-Front Elevation.
Low priced Cottage. From Bicknell’s Village Builder and Supplement.
One large quarto vol., 77 plates. Price $10.00.
Fig. 2.
First Floor Plan.
Cheap Country Cottages.
THE designs on pages 5, 7 and 8 represent three cheap but at the same time tasty and convenient country cottages, for men of moderate means. These designs are shown on plate 1, Bicknell’s Village Builder and Supplement.
The estimates, in work named, of the cost of these buildings, are : for Fig. 1, $750; while if the design of Fig. 3 be used, $1,000, and for Fig. 5, $1,200. These prices, however, do not include the cost of cellars, although in many localities they could now be executed, including cellars and everything complete, for prices
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