Barber's Turn-of-the-Century Houses

Elevations and Floor Plans

George F. Barber

• Editore: Dover Publications
• Anno: 2012
• ISBN:
  9780486141244
• Edizione: 3
• Argomento: Architecture
• Categoria: Architecture résidentielle

At the turn of the twentieth century, George F. Barber ran a successful architectural firm. Today, surviving examples of Barber's signature designs are the pride of their communities. This architectural snapshot from 1901 features working floor plans and fine drawings of more than eighty of Barber's distinctive dwellings.
Specializing in serving a mail-order clientele, Barber's company produced catalogs `giving floor plans of a convenient and practical character, and exterior designs of artistic merit in the various prevailing styles.` Prepared from long, practical experience, the handsome designs and plans range from the modest to the magnificent, including stately Georgians and colonials as well as snug country homes and seaside cottages. Loaded with spacious kitchens and double parlors as well as porches and balconies of beautiful classic design, this authentic guide will fascinate architectural historians, preservationists, and home restorers, along with anyone interested in Victorian-era architecture.

DEVELOPING PLANS FROM ROUGH SKETCHES

If You are Going to Build

WE SHOULD like very much to help you in developing your plans or assist you in any way we can to solve the problem, which, by the way, is a right serious one when we think about it being for a house to live in for a lifetime, perhaps. In the back of this book will be found a specially prepared (yellow) blank sheet, on which you will find it an easy matter to tell us fully your wants and to make a rough sketch, giving us some idea of the general arrangement of floor plans desired. From this information and sketch you send us, we will make a drawing to ¼-inch scale, making such changes and improvements as our experience and judgment dictate, and submit to you for inspection, free of cost; at the same time quote you a very low price for complete working plans, specifications, etc. If the blank above referred to has been lost, send us sketch, anyhow.

There are many people who spend years in planning a home, and in many cases many more years are spent in regretting that it is not right. We think that with our long experience we can save you many of these regrets. Let us try, at any rate.

OUR WORKING DRAWINGS

Knowing. as we do, that our working drawings, when they leave our office, go out of reach of our personal supervision, we have taken special pains to make everything plain and easily understood.

WHAT A SET OF OUR WORKING PLANS CONSISTS OF

Basement, or foundation; roof and floor plans; four elevations: showing front, rear and two sides; all drawn to a ¼-inch scale, with every dimension carefully figured and marked; a complete set of scale and full-sized details, for everything inside and out requiring a detail; especially prepared specifications to suit each individual order; two blank contracts and color plates for outside painting, describing their application.

Our work is so extensive, our experience extending over so wide a range of territory, and of so long duration, that we are enabled to give the most satisfactory results in every locality.

ORDERING PLANS

In ordering plans please enclose one-third the price with the order, as evidence of good faith, the remainder when the plans are finished, which will be sent C. O. D., with privilege of examination at your express office. Express charges will be prepaid when full price of plans are sent with the order. Send money by New York draft, United States or express money order.

THE ESTIMATED cost of the various houses shown in this book are based upon the experience of years of careful estimating, and will be found as accurate as possible for an average of the country, but subject to variations according to local prices and conditions; also according to the requirements of the building as provided by the plans and specifications, as ordered. Special careful estimates, with any desired information or special sketches, will be cheerfully furnished upon request. In the execution of our plans and specifications we provide for proper and economical methods of construction, following special instructions, and thereby insuring best possible results. Our experience extends over a number of years of the most successful endeavor throughout the United States and many foreign countries.

For the designs shown in this book the estimates of cost for each building have been revised up=to=date—1901.

Is not the character of work shown in this volume sufficient evidence that we can do the work of planning your home satisfactorily, and perhaps give you something different from what you see around you every day? That is sometimes an important point. It portrays the excellent character of work our plans will produce when properly carried out by a competent builder. And in considering the building of a home, is it not economy on your part to get your plans where you are sure of satisfactory results? Will not the general appearance of your home, and an interior arrangement prepared by those of the widest experience be points it will pay you to consider? Kindly let us hear from you.

A beautiful and complete home is the dream of every American housewife. A home, with an exterior of pleasing design, beautiful and correct in every minute detail, and an interior of faultless arrangement, planned to greet the eye at every turn with new thoughts of surprising fitness. All are susceptible of the most artistic embellishment in furnishings and decorations the deft hand of the skillful mistress can bestow upon them. Such may be and should be the Modern American Home. The designs in this book are figured to be complete in all modern appointments, except heating, mantels, grates and attics.

LEE, GOOCHLAND Co., VA., June 18, 1900.

Geo. F. Barber Co.:

GENTLEMEN—You certainly deserve the high encomiums pronounced upon you everywhere as architects for your artistic taste, fair and courteous treatment, and very reasonable charge.

Let me add that I wish my name placed upon the list of your admirers and friends, and that you shall certainly have whatever future patronage I may have to bestow in your line.

Very truly yours,
JOSEPH R. ANDERSON.

BUENA VISTA, VA., October 2, 1900.

Geo. F. Barber & Co.:

GENTLEMEN—It is with great pleasure I acknowledge the receipt of your preliminary drawings, with floor plans and front elevation. I do not believe it possible to improve upon them, and you may count on my order for plans. I say this because I have at my home (and have been studying) a good stack of books from nearly every other architect, and I have concluded that you, and only you, can furnish me with what I want.

Very truly,
W. P. LEE.

FLOOR PLANS (B) FOR DESIGN No.1

THIS DELIGHTFUL plan for a large and elegant home, costing from $30,000 to $4...