Late Victorian Architectural Plans and Details

William T. Comstock

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9780486156736
• Topic: Arquitectura
• Subtopic: Diseño arquitectónico

This authentic reproduction of plans drawn up by a noted nineteenth-century architectural firm features both residential and public buildings. Hundreds of illustrations include floor plans, perspective views, and elevations as well as designs for staircases, fireplaces, and other interior details. Other drawings depict windows, doors, balconies, and gables. Photographs offer crisp views of exteriors.
Victorian architecture buffs will prize this excellent source of authentic period designs. Its 126 plates comprise 87 images of residences; the remaining 39 structures include a field club building, stables, a library, a school, a railroad station, a dry goods store, and a music hall. Captions describe locations, dimensions, costs, and other particulars.

VOL. II.

OCTOBER, 1888, TO MARCH, 1889 NEW SERIES, Nos. 1–6

NEW YORK

WILLIAM T. COMSTOCK

23 WARREN STREET

MODERN ARCHITECTURAL

DESIGNS AND DETAILS

A MONTHLY PUBLICATION

GIVING

DETAILS OF EXTERIOR AND INTERlOR WOODWORK DRAWN TO SCALE, GELATINE
PLATES OF LATE WORK BY PROMINENT ARCHITECTS, AND SUCH OTHER
DESIGNS AND DETAILS AS ARE LIKELY TO PROVE USEFUL lN
THE PRACTICAL WORK OF AN ARCHITECT OR BUILDER

VoL. II, No. 1.

OCTOBER, 1888.

NEW SERIES, No. 1.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY,
At 23 Warren Street, New York City. Box 285, General P. O.

WM. T. COMSTOCK, Publisher.

E. R. TILTON, Editor.

LONDON : 57 & 59 Ludgate Hill, TRUBNER & Co., Agents.

SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: $5.00 per year, in advance, postage paid, for the United States and Canada; 27s. per year to Great Britain and Ireland, and $6.50 per year for all other foreign countries belonging to the Postal Union.

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DESCRIPTION OF PLATES.

IN presenting the first number of the second volume of “ Modern Architectural Designs and Details,” it may not be amiss to refer to our object in putting together these plates, and sending them forth in regular monthly issues. We wish to afford by this publication a regular issue of modern and practical details, as well as new and tasteful designs suited to current work. These designs are intended to be practical, in the sense that they can be adapted to the use of a variety of buildings, particularly. country dwellings, and are not intended to refer to any one house, but will be found suitable to a large class of modern structures. Some of the subjects represent work actually executed, others have been designed to meet possible requirements.

A gelatine plate is issued as a supplement to this number, a careful reference to which will give a good idea of the thoroughly practical character of these details.

In fact “ Plate 6” is a detail of a gable similar to the one over the porch of the house in Lawrence, L. I., of which Messrs. Lamb & Rich are the architects. The other photograph is of a house in Morristown, N. J., by Messrs. McKim, Mead & White, architects, and shows some very good treatment of shingling.

Plate 1.—Shows both sides of a small country house, designed by Mr. F. E. Wallis, Architect. It can be built for about $2,500, if the interior is finished in a simple manner. It is planned in such a way that it could be easily erected on a narrow tot—a lot such as would he found in the suburban districts of a large city. The plan is very ingenious, comfortable, and economically arranged. It contains one good-sized room in the attic.

The rest of the details shown are all from the office of Messrs. Lamb & Rich, architects, of New York. They represent executed work in all cases, work that is not expensive, but such as is used in medium-sized country houses.

Plate 2.—Contains the sections of a window, showing the method of construction used in a casement sash, a species of sash which is not often used, and in consequence whose construction is little understood. This plate also shows a good example of a simple plaster cornice, some mouldings forming mantel shelves, a wainscot cap, and a window trim or architrave.

Plate 3.—Shows an inexpensive wainscot, such as would be used in a pantry, bath-room or kitchen. The rest of the drawings on this plate show some interior finish : a door-jamb, and the finish of first and second-story windows.

Plate 4.—Illustrates doors : Sliding doors and ordinary doors, also some glazed doors. The sections given show the mouldings, the panels and the method of holding the glass. Section F on this plate illustrates the manner in which a glazed panel is made to open.

Plate 5.—Shows in detail the exterior finish of a dormer window. This window is colonial in style and contains some very good details in the way of cornice, columns and railing.

Plate 6.—Illustrates a gable over an entrance porch. This has already been referred to as similar to the one which can be seen in the photograph of the house in Lawrence, L. I. It shows how a gable can be effectively ornamented in a simple manner. It gives details of a spindle and of a rosette. Also, a very good way of constructing a trough gutter.

VOL.II, No. 2.

NOVEMBER, 1888.

NEW SERIES, No.2.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY,
At 23 Warren Street, New York City. Box 285, General P. O.

WM. T. COMSTOCK, Publisher.

E. R. TILTON, Editor.

LONDON : 57 & 59 Ludgate Hill, TRUBNER & Co., Agents.

SUBSCRIPTION TERMS : $5.00 per year, in advance, postage paid, for the United States and Canada; 27s. per year to Great Britain and Ireland, and $6.50 per year for all other foreign countries belonging to the Postal Union.

REMITTING MONEY.—All remittances of money should be in the form of postal orders (payable to WM. T. COMSTOCK, New York). When these are not available, send money by registered letter, or send drafts on New York banks, made payable to order of WM. T. COMSTOCK. Personal checks on local banks cannot be received in payment.

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Table of contents

• DOVER BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• INTRODUCTION TO THE DOVER EDITION
• VOL. II. - OCTOBER, 1888, TO MARCH, 1889 NEW SERIES, Nos. 1–6
• VOL. III. - APRIL, 1889, TO SEPTEMBER, 1889 NEW SERIES, Nos. 7-12
• VOL. IV. - OCTOBER, 1889, TO MARCH, 1890 NEW SERIES, Nos. 13-18
• NOW READY, VOLS. II & III.—OCTOBER, 1888, TO SEPTEMBER, 1889.
• ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO THE ARCHITECTS