Cottage residences; or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds. Adapted to North America. Part I. Illustrated by numerous engravings
Cottage residences by Andrew Jackson Downing, published in New York and London in 1844, is an architectural pattern book offering designs for rural cottages and cottage villas adapted to North America for American homebuilders. The four floor plans here show second-storey layouts with room sizes written in feet, such as bed rooms, closets, a bath and a stair hall. A designer might take from them the compact, room-labelled plan drawing style of mid-nineteenth-century American domestic architecture.
