Old English Real Estate architect drawings plans 4/20

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This Ebay listing is for the sale of a CD ROM publication of a highly influential book
on Victorian Era Architecture and Landscaping:

Victorian Cottage Residences
by nineteenth century author Andrew Downing.

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About this book on CD

Andrew Downing 1815 - 1852, the first great American landscape gardener, was one of the earliest and most influential popularizes of something new on the American scene... the small, inexpensive detached house. Into a countryside dotted with log cabins and occasional Greek revival mansions he introduced the tasteful, efficient cottage residence in all its varieties.
including gothic, bracketed, Italianate., and rustic. his enormously successful books spread the gospel to thousands of home buyers and many of his fellow architects --Frederick law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux, and others, and none was more successful than Cottage Residences, one of the most widely used books in American architectural literature.

the author presents 26 different cottage designs with views, floor plans, textual descriptions and occasionally, garden layouts.
among the different houses included are a suburban cottage, a cottage in the Tudor style, a villa in the Italian style, a villa in the gothic style, a side hill cottage, a stone cottage, and more. There are also designs for a small rural church and Italian gardens. The 155 illustrations allow the reader to see for himself exactly what the designs entail.

For anyone interested in 19th century American domestic architecture, there is no more important book than Andrew Downing's cottage residences. It is an incredibly rich, first-hand source for the most popular architectural styles of the period.



"In this volume, the first yet published in this country devoted to Rural Architecture, I am conscious of offering but a slight and imperfect contribution to this important subject, which I trust will be the precursor of more varied and complete works from others, adapted to our peculiar wants and climate. The very great interest now beginning to manifest itself in rural improvements of every kind, leads us to believe and to hope, that at no distant day our country residences may rival the "cottage homes of England," so universally and so justly admired. The relation between a country house and its "surroundings" has led me to consider, under the term residences, both the architectural and the gardening designs. To constitute an agreeable whole, these should indeed have a harmonious correspondence, one with the other; and although most of the following designs have not actually been carried into execution, yet it is believed that they will, either entirely, or at least furnish hints for variations suitable for peculiar circumstances and situations "__Andrew Downing 1842


Contents

Architectural suggestions.
Leading principles of domestic architecture, and their importance,
P 1. The principle of Utility or fitness.
p.2. Value of a convenient arrangement
p.3. Different wants in a cottage
p.3. Labor-saving fixtures
p.5. The mode of construction, and materials most suitable
p.7. Fitness in furniture
p.10. Features most characteristic of expression
p.11. The color of the exterior of cottages
p.13. Architecture as an art of taste and imagination
p.15. Beauty of forms. The principle of Unity
p.16. Of Uniformity and symmetry
p.17. Of Harmony and Variety,
p.20. Different styles in architecture
p.20. Relation of domestic architecture
p.20. The most suitable styles for this country
p.24. The sentiment of architecture

Each design includes description of the plan of the house, and its internal arrangements, remarks on the external effects, details of construction, estimate, layout of the garden and suggested plants, even hints for their cultivation and protection against insects!

Here's the list of cottage and villa house plans architectural renderings and detailed description found in this very well illustrated book

1. A suburban cottage
2. A cottage in the English, or rural Gothic style
3. A cottage in the pointed, or Tudor Style
4. An ornamental farm house
5. A cottage villa in the bracketed mode
6.An irregular villa in the Italian style, bracketed
7. An irregular cottage in the old English style
8. A villa in the Italian style
9. Cottage in the Italian, or Tuscan Style
10. A villa in the Gothic, or Pointed Style
11. A cottage for a country clergyman
12. A Villa in the Elizabethan style
13. A small cottage for a toll-gate house
14. A cottage in the Rhine Style
15. A carriage-house and stable in the rustic pointed style
16. A side Hill cottage
17. A plain house
18. A gate house
19. A Rambling cottage with low walls
20. A French Roof House
21. A Cottage for a village lot
22. A stone Cottage
23. An architect's residence
24. The brick cottage of Judge Monell
25. A river cottage
26. A small rural church
27. Italian Gardens

Further hints on the gardens and grounds of cottage residences
p.221 Arrangement of the smallest grounds: Two ways of laying out even the smallest flower garden.
p.223 Flower gardens of beds and walks: Flower gardens surrounding turf
p.223 Selection of plants necessary in the latter
p.224 Advantages of employing only ever-blooming dwarf plants and China Roses
p.225 The soil of flower gardens
p.225 The parterre -- different examples
p.227 Plan of Baron Hugel's garden
p.229 Arrangement of the flowers
p.229 Geometrical flower garden
p.230 Elizabethan flower garden
p.232 Selection of suitable plants
p.233 Labyrinth in ancient style
p.234 Original design for a flower garden and lawn combined
p.236 Examples of the mode of laying out small places in the French Style
p.237 Plan for the grounds of two small adjoining cottages
p.238 Landscape garden of an acre in the German Style
p.239 Example in the English Style
p.240 Original design for the grounds of a suburban residence
p.241 Essential elements of the beautiful in laying out all places of moderate size
p.243 Suggestions concerning terrace gardens with illustrations
p.246 Herbaceous Gardens



 

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