Building by a builder; practical and economical considerations for the man about to build
A 1914 homebuilding guide by Benjamin A. Howes, published by Doubleday, Page in Garden City, New York, for middle-class Americans planning a house and weighing costs. Halftone photographs show interiors and porches of concrete and stucco houses — terrazzo library floors, a plain reinforced-concrete staircase, pergolas — each framed by a printed border of repeating geometric ornament with captions set vertically.
