Victorian Octagon home, beautiful porch & cornice, printed architectural plans

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The Clark-Wright Octagon Home - 1850s
Here is a delightful octagon home, for all you connoisseurs out there! 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 Clarke-Wright house was built in the 1850s by Warren Clarke, who followed closely Fowler's plans. But Clark built in wood rather than concrete. Built over a full basement, the ground floor has 4 principal rooms and several smaller storage/utility areas. The upper floor has 3 bedrooms and the possibility for 2 baths.
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 31' x 55'.
Building name:      Clark-Wright House
Designer/Architect:      Warren Clark (after Orson Fowler)
Date of construction:      1850s
Location:     Mendota, Illinois
Style:      Queen Anne Victorian Style Home
Number of sheets:      2 sheets measuring 18" x 24"
Sheet List
Cover Sheet, Vicinity Map
2 Plans & 1 Elevation, 1/8"=1'-0", Details, various scales
The prints you are purchasing are crisp, high resolution black line copies on white bond paper. The original drawings were beautifully delineated in 1937, by the Historic American Building Survey.
If you enjoy these plans you may also be interested to see the
Leete-Griswold House.
SHIPPING: Your drawings are shipped to you, by US Postal Service, rolled, not folded, in a Priority Mail tube.
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 Victorian Style home, not a pseudo-Victorian tract house as you will find in the house plan magazines on your supermarket shelf. (VI021)
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