Purcell and Elmslie, Architects Firm active: 1907-1921 Minneapolis, Minnesota :: Chicago, Illinois Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :: Portland, Oregon

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• Table of Contents and Illustrations (7.5 MB)
• Introduction (4.8 MB)
• Chapter 1: Houses as They Are and How They Might Be - Chapter 2: Some Forms of Plan (12.8 MB)
• Chapter 3: The Hall to Chapter 4: The Dining Room (13.2 MB)
• Chapter 5: The Drawing Room - Chapter 12: The Billiard Room (17.2 MB)
• Chapter 13: The Garden-Room - Chapter 22: Pictures (25.1 MB)
• Chapter 23: The Fireplace and Its Treatment - Chapter 25: Ceilings (14 MB)
• Chapter 26: Windows - Chapter 31: The House In Relation to Its Site (18.8 MB)
• Chapter 32: The Garden - Chapter 33: Ways and Means (13.2)
• Chapter 34: Making the Best of It - Chapter 35: The Terrace House (17.8)
• Chapter 36: Cottages (14.5 MB)
• Chapter 37: Semi-Detached Houses - Chapter 39: Flats (21.2 MB)
• Chapter 40: Co-Operative Houses (4.5 MB)
• Houses Illustrated

• List of Illustrations, House in Switzerland, America, Poland, and Le Nid (20.8 MB)
• Findon, Trecourt, Trevista (21.8 MB)
• Rose Court, White Nights, The Cloisters, Blackwell (28.8)
• House for an Art Lover, The Haven, Bexton Croft (25 MB)
• The Five Gables, Heather Cottage, Everdene, Lingfield (24.8)
• The White House, The Crossways, Halcyon Cottage, Falke Wood, An Old House Remodelled (17.6 MB)
• Danestream, A Stone House, Sanford Cottage, A Roadside House, St. Mary's, The Garth (21 MB)
• Furnished Rooms at Darmstadt and Mannheim, Furniture (21.5) **

        ** The last two pages, containing chair designs, are absent from the PDF.