Home building. A reliable book of facts, relative to building, living, materials, costs, at about 400 places from New York to San Francisco. Containing 42 plates and 45 original designs of buildings ..
A pattern book of house designs and costs published in New York in 1877 by architect E. C. Hussey, aimed at prospective builders and homeowners across the United States. Wood-engraved perspective views show gabled and mansard-roofed frame houses with porches, bracketed eaves, dormers and roof cresting, paired with line floor plans labelled with room names and dimensions, useful for period house silhouettes, architectural ornament and plan diagrams.
