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
A pattern book of house designs by New York architect John W. Ritch, published by C. M. Saxton in 1849 for builders and clients wanting inexpensive country and village dwellings. Plates pair lithographed front elevations of cottages with porches, bracketed eaves and chimneys against ruled first- and second-story floor plans labelled parlor, kitchen, hall and bed rooms, with dimension figures, hatched wall poché and stair spirals usable as line diagrams.
