About the Book
1914Published
(title page)Author
13Houses
Published by the Macmillan Company of New York in 1914, with eleven plates and many text cuts.
It belongs to the same tradition as Bicknell & Comstock's specimen book of 1880, also in this collection, but thirty-four years later — and the difference is the point. The ornament has gone, the semi-bungalow has arrived, and the argument has shifted from how much house you can afford to how well a small house can be planned.
This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1914 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.
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