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AMERICAN COUNTRY BUILDING DESIGN: Rediscovered Plans For 19th-Century American Farmhouses, Cottages, Landscapes, Barns, Carriage Houses & Outbuildings
 
 
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AMERICAN COUNTRY BUILDING DESIGN: Rediscovered Plans For 19th-Century American Farmhouses, Cottages, Landscapes, Barns, Carriage Houses & Outbuildings (Paperback)

by Donald J. Berg (Author)
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"Designs and plans for farmhouses, cottages, landscapes, barns, and outbuildings from the 19th century. Provides an excellent introduction as well as suggestions for using these plans to add architectural detail to your own home...an excellent bibliography."--Victorian Homes. "Both a historical look at construction techniques and designs of the 1800s, and an idea book for modern architects and designers."--Woodshop News. "...the best home, barn and landscape designs...in a charming book....a good sourcebook....contains numerous original illustrations showing a wealth of construction details...site plans and plantings."--Fine Homebuilding.

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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Sterling (December 31, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0806996749
  • ISBN-13: 978-0806996745
  • Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,119,352 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A rare find of historic country building plans, April 14, 2001
By Martha Mitchell (Florence, SC United States) - See all my reviews
I am an architect designing a house for a client -it is a Charleston Style house with the master bedroom in a "carriage house" attached at the rear. This book helped me to create/design a more authentic carriage house. I am a horse lover from way back so I ate up the book front to back! I was pleased to find many examples of architectural details and embellishments. The plans of historic houses and barns are a rare treasure. Would be fun to build one of the farm houses!
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Nostalgia and Fun Bits of History, July 3, 2006
By NewEnglandScene (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews
This book is all about 19th century buildings, just like the title says. These are the houses that pushed forth from the established coastal settlements through upstate NY, OH and the Midwest during that century of expansion. I confess that this isn't my preferred style of house, but the book itself is a delight. The illustrations are exquisite; Currier & Ives stuff that make you just want to jump into the scene. And the texts that accompany the plans are full of fun facts. This is not a scholarly text, just a breezy ride back through time with a guide that makes it all come alive. You'd have to be a real curmudgeon not to enjoy this book ...unless of course you were determinedly looking for something else. A note however on the coverage. Although the subject of the book is the 19th century, the early part of the century (Federal and Greek Revival in particular) up to about 1840 is not really treated in this book. This book is about what was built during the industrial revolution, when things -including house plans- were mass produced. Buy it for a couple of hours of light reading and some new perspectives on how we lived and built in the latter 2/3 of the 19th century.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A background of the evolution of early american housing, March 20, 2001
By David W. Wright (Powhatan, VA USA) - See all my reviews
Donald J. Berg does an outstanding job of showing the evolution of the designs and the backgrounds of the designers of single family housing primarily in the 19th century. The plans and illustrations are excellent for those that want to use them as a guide for present day construction.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best old house plans book by far!
If you have an interest in house plans from times gone by (perhaps you'd like to build a modern home with old plans to get that special quality that only old fashioned houses... Read more
Published 15 months ago by K. Rutsky

2.0 out of 5 stars OK, but too sketchy
There was a nice range of different types and styles of buildings, but VERY sketchy information. Just wasn't quite what I was looking for.
Published 19 months ago by Anonymous

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for the Right Reader
This is a cool book. My wife and I are buying a 10 acre farmette with an abandoned 1880's style farmhouse, that believe me is in very rough condition. Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars LLL
I was very disappointed in this book. Ever since I learned that the house I grew up in was built in 1752, I've been fascinated with early American architecture, particularly old... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars One-of-a-kind book
This was exactly what I was searching for....a history lesson on how to properly plan a site for a home with ancillary buildings on anything over an acre.
Published on August 25, 2006 by C. J. Drawbridge

5.0 out of 5 stars helpful, intersting, but left one thing out
I'm finding this book intersting in all respects, but the author left out an important country structure the house-barn(housebarn)
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