Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-52); the first great American landscape gardener; was one of the earliest and most influential popularizers 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 variations; 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.First published in 1842; this book went through many editions before the 1873 edition; reprinted here; which contains for the first time the valuable additions of Henry Winthrop Sargent and Charles Downing. It is here that 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 readers to see for themselves exactly what the designs entail.For anyone interested in nineteenth-century American domestic architecture; there is no more important book than Andrew Jackson Downings Cottage Residences. It is an incredibly rich firsthand source for the most popular architectural styles of the period.
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