Books leaving home, Architecture, January 2025

 Book lovers love to collect and grieve when the books need to go.  Here's the list leaving home in January, 2025

Architecture as space; how to look at architecture. Bruno Zevi. Horizon Press, 1957.

202 outstanding city house ideas.  Manuel Gutierrez Couto. Firefly Books, 2016.  We kept this on the coffee table for several years and browsed as needed.  Someone will enjoy.

The old house book of cottages and bungalows. Compiled by Lawrence Grow. Main Street Press, Pittstown, New Jersey, 1987. Here's the problem with "weeding."  On p. 103 is the floor plan of the home of my friend Lynne in Mt. Morris, IL described as California mission styled bungalow. Many adorable 2 bedroom homes.

The plywood house. Prepared by the School of Architecture of Pratt Institute. 71 p. Internet record says published in 1966, but I can't find it on the piece. I think it was part of an exhibition.

Your new house; the alert consumer's guide to buying and building a quality home. by Alan & Denise Fields, Windsor Peak Press, 1993.

Historic houses of America open to the public (An American Heritage guide) 1971. 320 p.

Twentieth Century American architecture; a traveler's guide to 220 key buildings. Sydney LeBlanc. Revised and expanded 2nd edition. Whitney Guide. Whitney Library of Design, 1996.

Arkkitehti [Finnish architectural review] v. 7, no. 8, 1976.  It's my guess this came from Erkki Alanen who lived with us when he first came to Columbus.

Plans for concrete houses. 3rd ed. Portland Cement Assocation, 1925. Insert is an order blank to buy more books, 79 p. This was my grandparents'.

American Shelter; an illustrated encyclopedia of the American house

Today I am the porch hostess at Green Gables, a cottage in Lakeside, Ohio, which is on the 52nd Annual Tour of Homes. I'm supposed to check off tickets and tell the guests, "Green Gables was built as a cottage in 1883 and is Steamboat Gothic style. S.R. Gill, a founder of Lakeside, had hoped that all new buildings would be built in this style, copying the Steamboat Gothic style found in Martha's Vineyard. . . point out the original Gothic windows, ornate bargeboard, gingerbread gable pendant."

Not to be picky, but according to American Shelter (Lester Walker, 1981), a book I bought at the Port Clinton book sale many years ago, Green Gables is actually Carpenter Gothic, not Steamboat Gothic.

The invention of powered saws for cutting wood, and the popularization of the new ballon frame gave the American carpenter the tools he needed. The result was a building phenomenon unique to this country. . . The Carpenter Gothic Style is characterized chiefly by its profusion of decorative sawn details (gingerbread). . . Carpenter Gothic houses were being constructed all over te nation during the mid19th century. Some cities such as Cape May, NJ; OakBluffs, Martha's Venyard, MA; and San Francisco became famous for the whimsical forms the decoration too on their buildings."

American shelter; an illustrated encyclopedia of the American house by Lester Walker, Overlook Press, 1981.
Location: Lakeside, Ohio bookshelf
ISBN 0-87951-131-1

Begins with the American Indians and ends with post-modern. Wonderful illustrations. Purchased as a discard (Ida Rupp Port Clinton) many years ago for $1.