Specimen Book of One Hundred Architectural Designs

One hundred houses, churches and cottages of 1880 — with plans, elevations, and what each one cost to build.

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2 designs in this part of Specimen Book of One Hundred Architectural Designs.

Cheap Country Cottages

HE 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…

City Store Front

E give on the following page an elevation for a city store front; it is arranged with an important and conspicuous flight of stone stairs…

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