Bibliography (original) (raw)

Vintagedesigns.com Bibliography

House Design Books

Published before 1900

Lewis F. Allen, Rural Architecture; Comprising Farm Houses, Cottages, Carriage Houses, Sheep and Dove Cotes, Pigeries, Barns, &c. &c., C. M. Saxton, New York, 1852 (check for availablity at Amazon) and Orange Judd (check for availability at Amazon)
Daniel T. Atwood, Atwood's Country and Suburban Houses, 1871
George F. Barber, Victorian Cottage Architecture: An American Catalog of Designs, 1891
Asher Benjamin, American Builder's Companion; Or, A System of Architecture Particularly Adapted to the Present Style of Building, R. P. & C. Williams, 1827, reprinted by Dover Publications, 1969
Asher Benjamin, The Architect, Or Practical House Carpenter, 1830, reprinted by Dover Publications, 1988
A. J. Bicknell, Bicknell's Village Builder and Supplement, A. J. Bicknell & Co., New York, 1878, reprinted as A. J. Bicknell, Bicknell's Victorian Buildings, Dover Publications, 1980
A. J. Bicknell, Detail, Cottage, and Constructive Architecture, 1873, reprinted as Victorian Architectural Details: Designs for Over 700 Stairs, Mantels, Doors, Windows, Cornices, Porches, and Other Decorative Elements
John Bullock, American Cottage Builder, 1854
Henry W. Cleaveland, William Backus, and Samuel D. Backus, Village and Farm Cottages, 1856 (check for availability of reprints at Amazon)
William T. Comstock, American Cottages: Consisting of Forty-four Large Quarto Plates, Containing Original Designs of Medium and Low Cost Cottages, published by William T. Comstock, New York, 1883; reprinted as Country Houses and Seaside Cottages of the Victorian Era, Dover Publications.
William T. Comstock, Modern Architectural Designs and Details, New York, 1881
M. F. Cummings and C. C. Miller, editors, Architecture. Designs for Street Fronts, Suburban Houses, and Cottages, Including Details, for Both Exterior and Interior, of the Above Classes of Buildings. Also, A Great Variety of Details Not Included in The Designs, Illustrated by Elevations, and Containing in All Over 1,000 Designs and Illustrations., Fourth Edition, 1868, S. Bailey & Eager, Publishers and Booksellers, Toledo, Ohio, reprinted by Dover Publications
Marcus F. Cummings and Charles C. Miller, Designs for Street Fronts, Suburban Houses and Cottages, Young & Benson Publishers, Troy, New York, 1865
M. F. Cummings, Cummings' Architectural Details, Containing 387 Designs and 967 Illustrations of the Various Parts Needed in the Construction of Buildings, Public and Private, Both for the City and Country. Also, Plans and Elevations of Houses, Stores, Cottages, and Other Buildings., Orange Judd & Co., New York, 1873, reprinted in Victorian Architectural Details: Two Pattern Books
Alexander Jackson Davis, Rural Residences, etc.: Consisting of Designs, Original and Selected, for Cottages, Farm-Houses, Villas, and Village Churches: With Brief Explanations, Estimates, and A Specification of Materials, Construction, Etc., self-published, New York, 1837 [See complete on-line version]
Andrew Jackson Downing, Cottage Residences: or, A Series of Designs for Rural Cottages and Adapted to North America, 1842; reprinted as Andrew Jackson Downing, Victorian Cottage Residences, Dover Publications, 1981
Andrew Jackson Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses: Including Designs for Cottages, and Farm-Houses and Villas, With Remarks on Interiors, Furniture, and the best Modes of Warming and Ventilating, D. Appleton & Company, 1850; reprinted as Andrew Jackson Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses, Dover Publications, 1969
R. G. Hatfield, The American House Carpenter, 1844-1870's (many editions)
Henry Hudson Holly, Holly's Country Seats: Containing Lithographic Designs for Cottages, Villas, Mansions, etc., with Their Accompanying Outbuildings; also, Country Churches, City Buildings, Railway Stations, etc., etc.,, D. Appleton & Co., 1863; reprinted as Holly's Picturesque Country Seats, Dover Publications, 1994
D. S. Hopkins, Homes and Cottages, Book No. 7, A Collection of House and Cottage Designs Containing 57 Designs (there was an error in the original title: there are 56 designs), Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1893, reprinted as Late Victorian House Designs, Dover Publications
E. C. Hussey, Hussey's National Cottage Architecture; or, Homes for Every One, Chiefly Low-Priced Buildings for Towns, Suburbs, and Country., The American News Company, New York, 1874; reprinted as E. C. Hussey, Cottage Architecture of Victorian America, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1994
D. H. Jacques, The House: A Manual of Rural Architecture, 1850-1860's (more than one edition)
Minard Lafever, The Modern Builder's Guide, 1833
Minard Lafever, The Young Builder's General Instructor, 1829 (check for availability at Amazon)
J. C. Loudoun, An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1833
Compiled by Eugene Mitchell, American Victoriana: Floor Plans and Renderings from the Gilded Age; Being a Gallery of Color Plates with Descriptive Text and Black and White Facsimile Pages from the Scientific American Architects and Builders Editions, 1880 through 1905, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1979 (check for availability at Amazon)
Palliser, Palliser & Co., Architects, Palliser's American Architecture, J. S. Ogilvie, Publisher, Chicago and New York, 1888
Palliser, Palliser & Co., Architects, Palliser's American Cottage Homes, J. S. Ogilvie, Publisher, Chicago and New York, 1878, reprinted as American Victorian Cottage Homes
Palliser, Palliser & Co., Architects, Palliser's Useful Details
Palliser, Palliser & Co., Architects, Palliser's Building Specifications and Contract Blanks
Palliser, Palliser & Co., Architects, Palliser's New Cottage Homes and Details, Palliser, Palliser & Co., 1887
Palliser, Palliser & Co., Architects, Palliser's Model Homes, 1878
William H. Ranlett, The Architect: A Series of Original Designs, for Domestic and Ornamental Cottages and Villas, Connected with Landscape Gardening, Adapted to the United States, Illustrated by Drawings of Grouund Plots, Plans, Perspective Views, Elevations, Sections and Details, in Two Volumes, Dewitt & Davenport, New York, 1849 (the first volume is available as the reprint Early Victorian House Designs)
S. B. Reed, Village and Country Residences and How to Build Them, Orange Judd Company, 1878, reprinted as S. B. Reed, Village & Country Residences and How to Build Them: Classic House Plans for City and Farm, The Lyons Press, 2000
John Riddell, Architectural Designs for Model Country Residences, Illustrated by Color Drawings of Elevations and Ground Plans, John Riddell, Philadelphia, PA, 1861 (Review)
John W. Ritch, The American Architect; comprising Original Designs of cheap Country and Village Residences, with Details, Specifications, Plans, and Directions, and an estimate of the Cost of each Design., C. M. Saxton, New York, circa 1850
George William Sheldon, ed., Artistic Country-Seats: Types of Recent American Villa and Cottage Architecture, With Instances of Country Club-Houses, Vol. 1 and 2, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1880's, photographs reprinted in American Country Houses of the Gilded Age with new text by Arnold Lewis
J. C. Sidney, American Cottage and Villa Architecture : A Series of Views and Plans of Residences Actually Built Intended as models for them about to build as well as Architects, Builders, etc. with Hints on Landscape Gardening, Laying out of Grounds, Planting of Trees, Etc., Appleton & Co, Publishers, New York, 1850
Samuel Sloan, Model Architect, in Two Volumes, 1852, reprinted in one volume in Samuel Sloan, Sloan's Victorian Buildings, Dover Publications
Samuel Sloan, City and Suburban Architecture, 1859 (check for availablity of original printings at Amazon or reprints at Amazon)
Samuel Sloan, Homestead Architecture, 1861
Samuel Sloan, Sloan's Constructive Architecture, 1859
Samuel Sloan, editor, Sloan's Architectural Review and Builders' Journal (magazine), 1860's-1870's
Oliver P. Smith, The Domestic Architect: Comprising a Series of Original Designs for Rural and Ornamental Cottages, With Full and Complete Explanations and Direction to the Builder, Embracing the Elemental Principles of the Grecian and Cottage Styles, with Primary Rules for Drawing and Shading, and the Rudiments of Linear Perspecive. Illustrated by over Two Hundred Engravings., Ivison & Phinney, New York, 1854 (check for availability of reprints from Amazon)
T. Thomas, Jun., The Working Man's Cottage Architecture, 1848
Sereno Edwards Todd, Todd's Country Homes And How To Save Money, 1868 or 1870
Richard Upjohn, Upjohn's Rural Architecture: Designs, Working Drawings, and Other Specifications for a Wooden Church and Other Rural Structures, 1852 (Review)
Calvert Vaux, Villas & Cottages, 1857 (check for Dover reprints, Fredonia Book reprints, and University of Michigan reprints)
Thomas V. Walter and J. Jay Smith, Two Hundred Designs for Cottages and Villas, Carey and Hart, Philadelphia, 1846, 1847
Gervase Wheeler, Rural Homes; Or Sketches of Houses suited to American Country Life. With Original Plans &C., 1851 (check for availability from Amazon)
Gervase Wheeler, Homes for the People in Suburb and Country, 1855
George Wightwick, Hints To Young Architects, printed in the United States with additional notes by A. J. Downing, Wiley and Putnam, 1847
George E. Woodward, Woodward's National Architect, Vol. II. Containing Original Designs, Plans, and Details, To Working Scale, for City and Country Houses, The American News Company, New York, 1877, reprinted as George E. Woodward, Victorian City and Country Houses, Dover Publications, 1996
George E. Woodward and Edward G. Thompson, Woodward's National Architect, Vol. 1, 1869, reprinted as A Victorian Housebuilder's Guide

Published After 1900

Chilson D. Aldrich, The Real Log Cabin, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1928, 1935, 1944 (check for availability of the 1935 edition and the 1944 edition
Atlas Portland Cement Company, Concrete Country Residences: Photographs and Floor Plans of Turn-of-the-Century Homes, 1908
Architectural Book Publishing Co., American Country Houses of Today: Small Houses, Bungalows, Etc., reprinted as Country and Suburban Houses of the Twenties (edited by Bernard Wells Close), Dover Publications
Atlas Portland Cement Company, Concrete Country Residences, 1908
The Book of 100 Homes, published by Brown-Blodgett Co., St. Paul, Minnesota, 1936, reprinted as 100 Small Houses of the Thirties, Dover Publications
Building Age Publishing Corporation, Beautiful Bungalows of the Twenties,
Frederick H. Gowing, Building Plans for Colonial Dwellings, Bungalows, Cottages, and Other Medium Cost Homes, Designed, Edited, and Published by Frederick H. Gowing, Architect, Boston, Massachusetts, 1925
Fred. T. Hodgson, Practical Bungalows and Cottages For Town and Country: Perspective Views and Floor Plans of Two Hundred Low and Medium Priced Houses and Bungalows, Frederick J. Drake & Company, Chicago, IL, 1912
Montgomery Ward and Co., Wardway Homes: Bungalows and Cottages 1925
William A. Radford & Co., Home Builders' Red Book, Chicago, 1925, reprinted as Radford's House Designs of the Twenties
Sears, Roebuck, and Co., Homes of Today, Chicago, 1932, republished as Sears House Designs of the Thirties
Sears, Roebuck, and Co., Honor Bilt Modern Homes, Chicago and Philadelphia, 1926, reprinted as Small Houses of the Twenties: The Sears, Roebuck 1926 House Catalog
Gustav Stickley, Craftsman Homes, Craftsman Publishing Company, N. Y., 1909, reprinted as Gustav Stickley, Craftsman Homes: Architecture and Furnishings of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Dover Publications, 1979
Gustav Stickley, Craftsman Bungalows: Fifty Homes from "The Craftsman", 1903-1916, reprinted by Dover Publications, 1988
Gustav Stickley, More Craftsman Homes, The Craftsman Publishing Company, 1912, reprinted by Dover Publications, 1982
Henry L. Wilson, A Short Sketch of the Evolution of the Bungalow, reprinted as California Bungalows of the Twenties by Dover Publications
Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architecture, edited by Edgar Kaufmann, Horizon Press, New York, 1955
Small Homes of the Twenties: The Sears Roebuck 1926 House Catalog, (A Republication of Honor Bilt Modern Homes), Sears Roebuck and Company, 1926, reprinted by Dover Publications, 1991

Architectural History Books

Published before 1900

Charles Eastlake, A History of the Gothic Revival: An Attempt to Show How The Taste For Mediaeval Architecture Which Lingered in England During the Two Last Centuries Has Since Been Encouraged and Developed, Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1872
Charles Edward Hooper, Reclaiming the Old House: Its Modern Problems and Their Solutions as Governed by the Methods of Its Builders, McBride, Mast, and Company, 1913 (Review)
Minard Lafever, The Architectural Instructor, 1856
George Wightwick, The Palace of Architecture: A Romance of Art and History, James Fraser, London, 1840

Published after 1900

General

Architects' Emergency Committee, Great Georgian Houses of America: Published for the Benefit of the Architects' Emergency Committee by the Editorial Committee and the Publication Commitee, Vol. 1 (published 1933, by The Kaklhoff Press, Inc., New York), and Vol. 2 (published in 1937 by The Scribner Press, New York), both reprinted by Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1970
Joan M. Brierton, Victorian: American Restoration Style, Gibbs Smith Publisher, Layton, Utah, 1999
Julian Cavalier, American Castles: A Guide to the Architecture and Furnishings of Castellated Mansions, S. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., Cranbury, New Jersey, 1973
J. Mourdaunt Crook, The Greek Revival: Neo-Classical Attitudes in British Architecture 1760-1870, Revised Edition published by John Murray (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1995 (originally published in 1972)
Harry W. Desmond and Herbert Croly, Stately Homes in America: From Colonial Times to the Present Day, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1903
Sir Banister Fletcher, A History of Architecture On The Comparative Method For Students, Craftsmen, and Amateurs, Tenth Edition published by B. T. Batsford, Ltd., London and Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1938
John J.-G. Blumenson, Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms 1600 - 1945, American Association for State and Local History
I. T. Frary, Early American Doorways, Garrett and Massie, Richmond, VA, 1937
I. T. Frary, with an introduction by Fiske Kimball, Thomas Jefferson Architect and Builder, Garrett and Massie, Richmond, VA, 1950 [photographs of surviving Jefferson's designs, etc.]
Constance M. Grieff, Lost America: From the Atlantic to the Mississippi, The Pyne Press, Princeton, NJ, 1971
Kenneth Hafertepe and James F. O'Gorman, editors, American Architects and Their Books to 1848, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA, 2001
John Theodore Haneman, A Manual of Architectural Composition: 20 Plates with 1,880 Examples, The Architectural Book Publishing Co., Paul Wenzel and Marice Krakow, New York, 1923; reprinted as John Theodore Haneman, Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Architectural Plans, Details and Elements with 1,880 Line Drawings of Arches, Domes, Doorways, Facades, Gables, Windows, Etc., Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1984
Joseph Jackson, American Colonial Architecture. Its Origin And Development, 1924
The Home Insurance Company, Famous American Homes, published 1939 in honor of the 1939 New York World's Fair
Joseph Jackson, Development of American Architecture 1783 - 1830, 1926
Joseph Jackson, Early Philadelphia Architects and Engineers, 1923
Roger J. Kennedy, Architecture, Men, Women, and Money in America, 1600-1860, Random House, 1985
Fiske Kimball, Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic, Charles Scribners' Sons, 1922, reprinted by Dover Publications, 2001
Mills Lane, Architecture of the Old South: Colonial and Federal, Beehive Press
Mills Lane, Architecture of the Old South: Greek Revival and Romantic, Beehive Press
Mills Lane, Architecture of the Old South [an overview of the Architecture of the Old South series], Abbeville Press, 1993
Timothy Mowl, Elizabethan & Jacobean Style, Phaidon Press Limited, London, 1993 (softcover edition 2001)
Elise Lathrop, Historic Houses of Early America, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1927
James C. Massey and Shirley Maxwell, House Styles in America: The Old-House Journal Guide to the Architecture of American Homes, hardcover published 1996, paperback published 1999
Howard Major, The Domestic Architecture of the Early American Republic: The Greek Revival, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1926
Virginia McAlester, Lee McAlester (contributor), A Field Guide to American Architecture, 1984
Mckim, Mead, and White, The Architecture of McKim, Mead & White in Photographs, Plans and Elevations, The Architectural Book Publishing Co., Paul Wenzel & Marice Krakow, New York, 1915�1920, reprinted by Dover Publications
Arnold Nicholson, American Houses in History, The Viking Press, New York, 1965
Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larson, photographs by Douglas Keister, Daughters of Painted Ladies: America's Resplendent Victorians, E. P. Dutton, New York, 1987
Daniel D. Reiff, Houses from Books: Treatises, Pattern Books, and Catalogs in American Architecture, 1738 - 1950: A History and Guide, The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania, 2000
Thomas E. Tallmadge, The Story of Architecture In America, W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., New York, 1936

By State

Alabama

Ralph Hammond, Ante-Bellum Mansions of Alabama, Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc., 1951
Mills Lane, Architecture of the Old South: Mississippi and Alabama, Beehive Press

Georgia

Mills Lane, Architecture of the Old South: Georgia, Beehive Press
Mills Lane, Savannah Revisited, Beehive Press
Medora Field Perkerson, White Columns in Georgia, 1952
Luciana M. Spracher, Lost Savannah: Photographs from the Collection of the Georgia Historical Society, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC, 2002

Kentucky

Mills Lane, Architecture of the Old South: Kentucky and Tennessee, Beehive Press

Louisiana

Mills Lane, Architecture of the Old South: Louisiana, Beehive Press
Italo William Ricciuti, New Orleans and Its Environs: The Domestic Architecture 1727-1870, William Helburn, Inc., New York, 1938
Richard Sexton, Vestiges of Grandeur: The Plantations of Louisiana's River Road, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1999

Maryland

Mills Lane, Architecture of the Old South: Maryland, Beehive Press

Mississippi

Mills Lane, Architecture of the Old South: Mississippi and Alabama, Beehive Press

New York

Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard, Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley, Architectural Book Publishing Company, Inc., 1942

North Carolina

Mills Lane, Architecture of the Old South: North Carolina, Beehive Press
Marguerite Schumann, editor, Grand Old Ladies: North Carolina Architecture During the Victorian Era, The East Woods Press, Charlotte, NC, 1984

South Carolina

Mills Lane, Architecture of the Old South: South Carolina, Beehive Press

Tennessee

Mills Lane, Architecture of the Old South: Kentucky and Tennessee, Beehive Press

Virginia

Architecture in Virginia: An Official Guide to Four Centuries of Building in the Old Dominion
Mary Cahill and Gary Grant, Victorian Danville, Fifty-two Landmarks: Their Architecture and History, URE Press, Danville, Virginia, 1977, Second Edition 1996
Frances Archer Christian and Susanne Williams Massie, ed,. with an introduction by Douglas S. Freeman, Homes and Gardens in Old Virginia, Garrett and Massie, Incorporated, Richmond, VA, 1931
Emmie Ferguson Farrar, Old Virginia Houses Along The James, Bonanza Books, New York, 1957
Emmie Ferguson Farrar and Emilee Hines, Old Virginia Houses Along The Fall Line, Hastings House, New York, 1971
Mary Gray Farland and Beverley Byrd Greenhalgh, In the Shadow of the Blue Ridge: Clarke County 1732 - 1952, William Byrd Press, Richmond, VA, 1978 [This book is about the architecture of Clarke County, Virginia.]
Bryan Clark Green, Calder Loth, and William M. S. Rasmussen, Lost Virginia: Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion, Howell Press, Charlottesville, VA, 2001
Mills Lane, Architecture of the Old South: Virginia, Beehive Press
Edited by Calder Loth, The Virginia Landmarks Register, Fourth Edition, The University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1999
Will Molineux, Williamsburg, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC, 2001
Edith Dabney Tunis Sale, editor; compiled by The James River Garden Club, Historic Gardens of Virginia, The James River Garden Club, Richmond, VA, 1923
Thomas Tileston Waterman, The Mansions of Virginia, 1706-1776, University of North Carolina Press, 1945

Interior Design Books

Published Before 1900

Arnold Brunner and Thomas Tryon, Interior Decoration, Constock, New York, 1887
Clarence Cook, The House Beautiful: Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks, Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., New York, 1877; republished by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1881; reprinted as Clarence Cook, The House Beautiful: An Unabridged Reprint of the Classic Victorian Stylebook, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1995
Clarence Cook, What Shall We Do With Our Walls?, Fuller, New York, 1881
Clarence Cook, The House Beautiful, 1881
Andrew Jackson Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses: Including Designs for Cottages, and Farm-Houses and Villas, With Remarks on Interiors, Furniture, and the best Modes of Warming and Ventilating, D. Appleton & Company, 1850; reprinted as Andrew Jackson Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses, Dover Publications, 1969
Charles Eastlake, Hints on Household Taste: In Furniture , Upholestry, and Other Details, American edition edited by Charles C. Perkins, M.A., James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, MA, 1872
J. C. Loudoun, An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1833
Harriet Prescott Spofford, Art Decoration Applied to Furniture, Harper & Brothers, 1877, 1878 (Despite the title, the text is devoted to a large extent to the history of interior design and information on how to decorate in the Eastlake, Late Gothic, and Late Victorian styles.)
Almon C. Varney, Our Homes and Their Ornaments, Detroit, 1881
Thomas Webster, F. G. S., &c., assisted by the Late Mrs. Parkes, from the Last London Edition, with notes and improvements by D. Meredith Reese, A.M., M.D., of New York, An Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy: Comprising Such Subjects As Are Most Immediately Connected with Housekeeping; As, The Construction of Domestic Edifices, with the Modes of Warming, Ventilating, and Lighting Them; A Description of The Various Articles of Furniture; A General Account of The Animal And Vegetable Substances Used As Food, and The Methods of Preserving and Preparing Them by Cooking; Making Bread; Materials Employed in Dress and The Toilet; Business of Laundry; Description of the Various Wheel-Carriages; Preservation of Health; Domestic Medicines, &c., &c. Illustrated with Nearly One Thousand Engravings., Harper & Brothers, New York, 1845 (1238 Pages!)
Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., The Decoration of Houses, 1897

Published After 1900

American Country Houses of Today, Architectural Book Publishing, New York, 1912
Elsie de Wolfe, The House in Good Taste, The Century Co., New York, 1913Review)
Lillie Hamilton French, Homes and Their Decoration, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1903, 1913
Lucy Abbot Throop, Furnishing the Home of Good Taste, McBride, Nast, New York, 1912
Candace Wheeler, Principles of Home Decoration: With Practical Examples, Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1903, 1912

Interior Design History Books

Chandler R. Clifford, Period Decoration, Clifford & Lawton, New York, 1901 (mostly features information on ancient and European interior design; has a little information on American Colonial, Victorian, and L'Art Nouveau)
Leigh French, Jr., Colonial Interiors; THe Colonial and Early Federal Periods, William Helburn, Inc., 1923 (primarily photographs and sketches)
Lawrence Grow and Dina Von Zweck, American Victorian: A Style and Source Book, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1984
Allison Kyle Leopold, Victorian Splendor: Re-Creating America's 19th-Century Interiors, Stewart, Tabori and Chang, New York, 1986
Edgar de Noailles Mayhew and Minor Myers, Jr., A Documentary History of American Interiors: From the Colonial Era to 1915, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1980
Tessa Paul, The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany: Glass, Vases, Lamps, Furniture, Jewelry, Exeter Books, New York, 1987 (contains information on some Tiffany-designed interiors)
Edith Tunis Sale, Colonial Interiors: Southern Colonial and Early Federal, William Helburn, Inc., 1930
Gail Caskey Winkler and Roger W. Moss, Victorian Interior Decoration: American Interiors 1830-1900, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1986
The editors of The Upholstery Dealer and Decorative Furnisher, The French Decorative Styles: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. A Hand-Book for Ready Reference, T. A. Cawthra & Co., New York, 1904

Furniture Design Books

Published before 1900

Gothic Album for Cabinet Makers; comprising a Collection of Designs for Gothic Furniture, Illustrated by Twenty-Three Large and Beautifully Engraved Plates, Henry Carey Baird, Industrial Publisher, 1868; reprinted as part of Victorian Gothic & Renaisance Revival Furniture: Two Victorian Pattern Books Published by Henry Carey Baird, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia and The American Life Foundation, 1977
Cabinet Maker's Album of Furniture; Comprising A Collection of Designs for the Newest and Most Elegant Styles of Furniture, Illustrated by Forty-Eight Large and Beautifully Engraved Plates, Henry Carey Baird, Industrial Publisher, 1868; reprinted as part of Victorian Gothic & Renaisance Revival Furniture: Two Victorian Pattern Books Published by Henry Carey Baird, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia and The American Life Foundation, 1977
Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1762
Andrew Jackson Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses: Including Designs for Cottages, and Farm-Houses and Villas, With Remarks on Interiors, Furniture, and the best Modes of Warming and Ventilating, D. Appleton & Company, 1850; reprinted as Andrew Jackson Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses, Dover Publications, 1969
John Hall, Architect and Draftsman, The Cabinet Makers' Assistant, embracing the most modern style of cabinet furniture: exemplified in new designs, practically arranged on forty-four plates containing one hundred and ninety-eight figures: to which is prefixed a short treatise on linear perspective, for use of practical men., Printed by John Murphy, 146 Market Street, Baltimore, 1840; reprinted as John Hall, The Cabinent Maker's Assistant, National Superior, Inc., New York, 1944
George Hepplewhite, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1794
J. C. Loudoun, An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1833
Thomas Sheraton, Thomas Sheraton's Classical Revival Furniture Designs, 1793-1802

Published after 1900

Victor M. Linoff, editor, Rustic Hickory Furniture Company, Porch, Lawn, and Cottage Furniture: Two Complete Catalogs, ca. 1904 and 1926, reprinted by Dover Publications, 1990
Gustav Stickley, Catalogue of Craftsman Furniture Made by Gustav Stickley at the Craftsman Workshops, Eastwood, N. J., 1910, and The Work of L. & J. G. Stickley, Fayetteville, New York, not dated, compiled and reprinted as Gustav Stickley, Stickley Craftsman Furniture Catalogs, Dover Publications, 1979
Gustav Stickley, The 1912 and 1915 Gustav Stickley Craftsman Furniture Catalogs, reprinted by Dover Publications, 1991
Leopold and J. George Stickley, Early L. & J. G. Stickley Furniture: From Onondaga Shops to Handcraft, L. & J. G. Stickley Furniture Company, 1906-1909, reprinted by Dover Publications, 1992

Furniture History and Antique Furniture Books

Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews, Shaker Furniture: The Craftsmanship of An American Communal Sect, Yale University Press, 1937; reprinted as Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews, Shaker Furniture: The Craftsmanship of An American Communal Sect, Dover Publications, 1950
Herbert Cescinsky and George Leland Hunter, English and American Furniture: A Pictural Handbook of Fine Furniture Made In Great Britain and In the American Colonies, Some in the Sixteenth Century But Principally in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, With More Than 400 Illustrations, Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1929
John Freeman, Furniture for the Victorian House from the Works of Andrew Jackson Downing and J. C. Loudon, 1968
Ralph and Terry Kovel, American Country Furniture: 1780 - 1875, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1965
Clare Haworth-Maden, editor, Nineteenth Century Furniture, A Quantum Book, London, 1999 (features some American furniture)
John Morley, The History of Furniture: Twenty-Five Centuries of Style and Design in the Western Tradition, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1999 (features primarily European furniture)
Frances Clary Morse, Furniture of the Olden Time, The Macmillan Company, 1902, 1917, 1930, 1936
R. W. Symonds and B. B. Whineray, Victorian Furniture, Country Life Limited, London, 1962 (features some designs from books also popular in the United States)
Edgar J. Miller, Jr., American Antique Furniture: A Book For Amateurs In Two Volumes, M. Barrows & Company, Inc., New York, 1937
The editors of The Upholstery Dealer and Decorative Furnisher, The French Decorative Styles: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. A Hand-Book for Ready Reference, T. A. Cawthra & Co., New York, 1904

Garden and Landscape Design Books

Published Before 1900

Andrew Jackson Downing, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening Adapted to North America, 1841
Andrew Jackson Downing, Rural Essays, 1853 (a collection of his editorials published posthumously)
Christopher Dresser, PH.D., F.L.S., F.E. B. S., The Art Of Decorative Design, wtih an Appendix, Giving the Hours of the Day at Which Flowers Open (The Floral Clock); The Characteristic Flowers of the Months (Both Indigenous and Cultivated), of All Countries, and of the Diversified Soils., Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen, London, 1862

Garden and Landscape History Books

Prepared by the American Society of Landscape Architects, Colonial Gardens: The Landscape Architecture of George Washington's Time, United States George Washington Bincentennial Commission, Washington, D. C., 1932 [published at the Bicentennial of George Washington's Birth of 1732]
Frances Archer Christian and Susanne Williams Massie, ed,. with an introduction by Douglas S. Freeman, Homes and Gardens in Old Virginia, Garrett and Massie, Incorporated, Richmond, VA, 1931
Albert Addison Lewis, Boxwood Gardens: Old and New, The William Byrd Press, Inc., Richmond, VA, 1924
Peter Martin, The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia: From Jamestown to Jefferson, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1991
Edith Dabney Tunis Sale, editor; compiled by The James River Garden Club, Historic Gardens of Virginia, The James River Garden Club, Richmond, VA, 1923

Biographies

Prophet with Honor: The Career of Andrew Jackson Downing 1815 to 1852
Constance M. Greiff, John Notman, Architect
Witold Rybczynski, A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and American in the Nineteenth Century, Scribner, New York, 1999
William Alex, Calvert Vaux: Architect and Planner, Ink Inc., 1994
Francis R. Kowsky, The Architecture of Frederick Clark Withers and The Progress of the Gothic Revival in America After 1850

Fiction

Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., New York, 1957; Return to Gone-Away, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., New York, 1961 (Review)

Return to the home page.
Go to Architectural History Articles and Links.
Go to American Architects.
Go to Historic American Interior Design.
Sponsored by Sarah E. Mitchell Information Services:
Direct e-mail to Sarah E. Mitchell.