500 Small Houses of the Twenties

Henry Atterbury Smith

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9780486156866
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: History of Architecture

Spurred by a rapidly expanding economy and abundant resources of land, building materials and skilled labor, the dream of building and owning one's own home became a reality in America in the 1920s. With the beginning market for small- to medium-sized one-family dwellings came a succession of innovative home designs that transformed American domestic architecture.
This outstanding book presents 500 small-home designs of the 1920s as they appeared in a major architectural publication of 1923. Many are by leading domestic architects of the period. Each design is presented in a handsome perspective drawing or photograph, along with floor plans and a description of its principal features.
The designs reflect many variations on the basic themes of American colonial architecture, updated by new construction technology and the design aesthetics of the post‒World War I era. The Bungalow and semi-bungalow were perhaps the biggest design news of the times, and they are generously represented in this huge collection. Because of the practicality and good looks of the best of these designs, and perhaps for the nostalgia they evoke, many are being revived today by builders and buyers in communities across America.
Architects, architectural, and social historians, students and enthusiasts of architecture and design will find in these pages a rich selection of small-home concepts that once set the standard for a new era in American home design, and that still form an integral part of our landscape many decades after their first inspiration.

Table of contents

• DOVER BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Publisher’s Note
• The Most Talked-of House in America
• ACKNOWLEDGMENT
• America’s Most Popular Small House Plan
• An Unusual 6-Room Colonial Frame House
• An 8-Room House of Unusual Architectural merit
• A Popular 6-Room Colonial Residence - (Brick or Stucco on Hollow Tile)
• An Interesting 8-Room House in Four Exteriors
• A Square Dutch Colonial 6-Room House - (With Sleeping Porch)
• Two Attractive 7-Room Brick Bungalows
• A 6-Room Spanish Colonial Tile and Stucco House
• A 6-Room House-Modified Georgian Design - (With Common Brick Exterior)
• The Most Talked of House in America
• The “Home, Sweet Home” at Washington, D. C.
• A 7-Room House of English Character
• A 7-Room Colonial Home—Shingled Exterior
• An Interesting Innovation in Dwelling Design
• A Dignified Colonial Home of Brick
• A 5-Room Bungalow of Southern Type
• A Small Country Home—Stucco and Half-Timbered Exterior - (Six rooms and sun room arranged in an elongated plan)
• The Plans of Five Hundred Homes
• From Plans to Finished Homes
• Plans and Service Approved by the Press
• From Plan Book to Finished Home
• Better Homes