This site is the complete 1914 book The Book of Little Houses, page by page as originally printed — period spelling, remedies and opinions included. About this edition →
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Introduction
1 house
What Experience Has Taught House Builders
1 house
Three Little Countryside Homes
1 house
Two Little-Cost Houses of Individuality
1 house
A Bungalow for the Mountainside
1 house
An Uncommon House of Tile and Stucco
1 house
Dutch Colonial Design in a Modern Home
1 house
A Cottage from Old England
1 house
A Successful Semi-Bungalow
1 house
A Brick House for a 50-Foot Lot
1 house
Two Tiny Seashore Bungalows
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A Little Home of Colonial Type
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Highlights
Three Little Countryside Homes
THIS is the day of the small house. In using the term "small house," I do not mean necessarily the cheap house, but the residence…
A Cottage from Old England
Of course you have heard of the ivy-covered English cottages, with their low, overhanging eaves, high gables, and casement…
A Bungalow for the Mountainside
THE limitless adaptability of the bungalow is one of its chief beauties. There is no requirement to follow the style of any…
The Sleeping-Porch-As It Should Be
In every section of the country, from seaboard to seaboard, sleeping-porches have been built, but are they always successful?…
Dutch Colonial Design in a Modern Home
A TYPE of architecture peculiarly available for the prospective builder of a moderate-priced house in the countryside that is…
An Uncommon House of Tile and Stucco
"You see, it's only a small house, but we don't want it to look like all the others." That is the sentiment of the average small…