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The Hundred Designs

Each design as the book gives it: plan, elevation, and price.

• 1Introduction

  N preparing the following collection of designs, we have not so much…

• 2A Picturesque Country Villa

  The It is quite possible that propositions which are mathematically…

• 3A Modern Villa Residence

  Mr. Woollett, in his book on "Villas and Cottages, or Homes for All,"…

• 4A Wayside Sabbath-School Chapel

  H.W.TROY Situated on the river-side road, a mile below Nyack, on the…

• 5An Ornamental Cottage

  The accompanying view, designed for a gardener's cottage, shows a…

• 6Cheap Country Cottages

  HE designs on pages 5, 7 and 8 represent three cheap but at the same…

• 7City Store Front

  E give on the following page an elevation for a city store front; it…

• 8French Cottage

  We give above a front view of a French Cottage of moderate…

• 9Ground Plan

  4 8'6"X9' CHAMBER PLAN From Hussey's " Home Building." One quarto…

• 10Ground Plan (II)

  From Hussey's "Home Building." One quarto volume of 42 plates…

• 11Kitchen

  10' 6"x 13 DINING ROOM 12' 6'x 13 PORCH HALL PARLOR 12' 6"x 15 e City…

• 12Kitchen (II)

  For Plans, Elevations and Details to scale, see plates 40, 41 and 42…

• 13Kitchen, Kitchen, Kitchen, Kitchen & Kitchen

  10 x 12 CHINA SLIPE

• 14Library

  PARLOR PORCH Prospective view and first floor plan of design shown on…

• 15Maas Mazz-Chi

  ㅁㅇㅁ View of Court House, suited to plans shown on plates 49 and 50…

• 16Old Exampless

  000 BICKNELL & COMSTOCK'S SPECIMEN BOOK OF H Example of Ancient…

• 17Parlor Suite

  This is engraved from a suite in the Queen Anne style, covered with…

• 18Rustic Pavilion

  Illustration from "Beautitying Country Homes." A hand-book of…

• 19Several Original Designs

  N preparing the following collection of designs, we have not so much…

• 20See Following Page

  HE Illustration shows the front elevation of a church edifice, with…

• 21Specimen Book – Sabbath School Hapel

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• 22To Cellar

  Π CHINA BED ROOM Π PRESS PRESS Π HALL PARLOR Π Perspective view and…

• 23View of Hall-Way

  E We offer this cut as an example of remodeling. In the original…

• 24View Before Alteration

  We offer the cuts represented on this page as an example of…

• 25View After Alteration

  from 66 ON A SIORHILL。 This cut represents quite a picturesque little…

• 26Veysey Homestead Cottage

  The "Veysey Cottage" was erected recently in the picturesque village…

• 27Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  00 Will L Γ T 7 Elevation of Chapel Church. Reduced from plate 42…

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