This incredibly rich, firsthand source for the most popular styles of 19th-century Victorian architecture presents 26 cottage designs - including Gothic, bracketed, Italianate, "rustic," more - and 155 illustrations (includes floor plans). The small, inexpensive detached house received one of its earliest popularizations here.

Explore a golden age in architecture when architects, builders, and homeowners let their imaginations run wild. If you are thinking about renovation, remodeling, or building a Victorian home, this book will show you how the architectural features characteristic of turn-of-the-20th century architecture were used. Here are richly detailed 'gingerbread' trims, towers, encircling porches, balconies, bay windows, ornamental ironwork, elaborate chimneys,...