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1903 radford victorian architectural old house plans
This catalog contains the perspective view and floor plans of 100 houses, meant to be a sales catalog advertising the sale of building blue prints available from the Radford Architectural Firm.A very well done advertising piece for the Architectural Firm.
In this catalog you will find numerous renderings of Victorian / Queen Anne style homes popular in that era, as well as English Tudor, French and Dutch colonial style homes.
As in other house plan books of this era the plans here are good, sound, rational home plans and well thought out for value and livability.
While the names and functions you might assign to the rooms today might be different than that of the era of this catalog, for most folks no longer have 12 kids and put them 6 to a bedroom, the nice layout of good light and ventilation in what might have been labeled "bedroom" and might now be relabeled "den" or "office" is just as valuable today ... no matter what the use of the space is.
Too often folks get caught up in the labels and forget that the best architecture is good value that delivers an affordable and constructive, positive environment to make good space utilization and pleasant emotional and motivational support for the residents of the structure.
This is nice to have as a reference and for confirmation of rational design of space.
Besides that, it still impressed us that architects back then can actually render perspective correct drawings of their designs! Impressive!
A good reminder that architecture is as much an art as engineering or science.
