Category: Architecture

Modern house-plans for everybody For village and country residences costing from two hundred and fifty dollars to eight thousand dollars

In the modernized and revised edition of “House-Plans for Everybody,” but little attempt has been made to change the text or floor plans, as these are standard features requiring no revision. In the matter of outward dress, however, nearly all the elevations have been redrawn,...

Chapters

1. Part 1

In the modernized and revised edition of “House-Plans for Everybody,” but little attempt has been made to change the text or floor plans, as these are standard features requirin...

2. Part 2

These plans are for a low-priced house, similar in character to those in Design II., but differing entirely in outlines and arrangement, and embracing a much larger area of floo...

3. Part 3

38 yards excavation, at 20c. per yard. $7.60 5,000 brick, furnished and laid, at $12 per M. 60.00 230 yards lath and plastering, 3 coats, at 28c. per yard. 64.40 1,412 ft. timbe...

4. Part 4

56 yards excavation, at 20c. per yard. $11.20 875 ft. stone-foundation, at 5c. per ft. 43.75 2,000 brick, furnished and laid, at $12 per M. 24.00 340 yards plastering, complete,...

5. Part 5

This plan is for a comfortable and genteel dwelling, suited to almost any location, and for the accommodation of an averaged-sized family. Upwards of twenty years’ experience in...

6. Part 6

These plans were designed for a genteel cottage adapted to thickly-settled localities, where the increased value of lands make it necessary to reduce the area, and build upwards...

7. Part 7

This plan, embodying the principal characteristics of a design I made several years ago, for the residence of Mr. Arthur Waller, Newtown, L. I., has a homelike, tasteful, and pi...

8. Part 8

This plan of a simple, yet genteel Southern house, embraces ample interior accommodation for the wants of a good-sized family. It has an abundance of outside verandas and artifi...

9. Part 9

20 running ft. of lumber in frame, at 4c. $0.80 4 pulleys, at 40c. per dozen. .14 26 lbs. sash-weights, at 2½c. .65 Sash-cord. .08 Screws. .03 16 ft. of 5-inch trim, at 5c. .80...

10. Part 10

This plan is designed to meet the wants of a large class residing in the country, or smaller villages, who are not only directly interested in agricultural pursuits, but who hav...

11. Part 11

This plan is designed for a substantial, convenient, and inexpensive country house. It has two full finished stories, with well-lighted apartments of good size, and a large cell...

12. Part 12

These plans were designed for the substantial dwelling of a farmer in easy circumstances. The outside appearance truthfully expresses its rural and its domestic purpose. The int...

13. Part 13

These plans were designed for a summer residence near Toms River, N. J. They are especially adapted to situations where the more pleasant views are to the rear, making it desira...

14. Part 14

This plan of a large house provides ample and conveniently-arranged apartments, containing the most requisite of modern improvements, suitable to the requirements of a good-size...

15. Part 15

80 yards excavation, at 20c. per yard. $16.00 60,000 brick, complete, at $10 per M. 600.00 120 ft. stone sills and coping, at 30c. per ft. 36.00 1,000 yards plastering principal...

16. Part 16

The accompanying plans were designed for a suburban residence erected during the past year by Mr. Bernhard Greeff, at College Point, Long Island, N. Y. The general outlines were...

17. Part 17

These plans were originally prepared for six connected cottages, just completed, for Mr. Fred. Storms, (manufacturer), at Bayside, L. I. They were designed to give the largest a...

18. Part 18

_Director of the Public School of Industrial Art, of Manual Training and Art in the R. C. High School, and in several Night Schools, Member of the Art Club, Sketch Club, and Edu...

19. Part 19

New, enlarged and revised edition. Their breeding, training and management, in health and disease; comprising all the essential parts of the two standard works on dogs by “Stone...