The economic cottage builder: or, Cottages for men of small means : Adapted to every locality, with instructions for choosing the most economical materials afforded by the neighborhood : To which are added many valuable hints and most useful observations. Illustrated with tinted designs on stone
A mid-nineteenth-century American pattern book by Charles P. Dwyer, published in Buffalo in 1856, offering plans for inexpensive cottages for people of modest means, adapted to local materials. The plates are lithographed architectural elevations of small houses and cottages, drawn in pencil-like tones and printed sideways on the page. Designers can take from them the simple gabled forms, verandas, dormers and tall windows that sum to a rural domestic vernacular.
