Delightful Octagon home, Victorian details, porch, cupola, PDF plans

Description

The Leete-Griswold Octagon Home - 1856
Building name: Leete-Griswold House
Designer/Architect: Edwin A. Leete (after Orson Fowler)
Date of construction: 1856
Location: Guilford, Connecticut
Style: Queen Anne Victorian Style Home
Number of sheets: 8 sheets measuring 18" x 24"
Sheet List
Cover Sheet
Basement Plan, 1/4"=1'-0"
First Floor Plan, 1/4"=1'-0"
Second Floor Plan, 1/4"=1'-0"
Attic Plan, 1/4"=1'-0"
2 sheets, Elevations, 1/4"=1'-0"
Section & Detail, various scales
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Have I got a delight for you! Here are plans for a charming Octagon home, modest in size but with all the spaciousness you'd expect from a Victorian country house. The mid-1800s saw a brief flurry of interest in the Octagon type plan, due to the publication of Orson Squire Fowler's imaginative book,
The Octagon House; A Home for All
. This book proposed the construction of homes in concrete, ground breaking technology of the time, and the use of the octagon as a plan because of its efficiency. The octagon has a high volume for its surface area, which means more energy efficiency and less material cost, compared to a rectangular home of equal area.
The Leete-Griswold house follows closely Fowler's recommendations. Built over a full basement, the ground floor has 4 principal rooms and several smaller storage/utility areas. If I was adapting this plan, I would join the north-west and south-west rooms into one larger L-shaped space and make it a Kitchen/Family room. The other 2 principal rooms would be Living and Dining.
The upper floor has a mix of room shapes and sizes that could easily be adapted to allow 3-4 bedrooms and at least 2 baths. The low attic is lit by a cupola which would be an ideal play space, keeping the children's toys and games out of the living room. The cupola could also serve as a home office or similar type use.
As a work of art these prints are worth purchasing in their own right. For those of you interested in building a historically inspired house, these plans offer an excellent starting point. The plan is ideally suited for a flat site. This house would be comfortable in a suburban or country setting. This spacious home has outside dimensions of approximately 38' x 38', excluding the porch.
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IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO BUILD:
These plans are not complete architectural drawings as might be required by your local permitting agency and do not contain all the structural, waterproofing and other details and information necessary for construction. But your local builder or architect should be able to adapt these drawings and add to them as necessary. What they do provide is accurate design information about a REAL historic house, not a pseudo-historic tract house as you will find in the house plan magazines on your supermarket shelf
The original drawings from which these dimensionally accurate scans were made are kept at the Historic American Building Survey, in the Library of Congress.
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