"In 1901, Gustav Stickley created the first uniquely American style of furniture and home design?known as Craftsman. A leader of the Arts and Crafts movement in homebuilding and a major influence on Frank Lloyd Wright, Stickley created home designs that valued construction in harmony with its landscape: open floor plans, built-in storage, and natural lighting. In this lifetime, he designed at least 241 homes in this style and published more than 200...

At the end of the 19th century carpenter and architect George Barber began publishing his residential designs in inexpensive illustrated catalogs. These were not the first mail order house plans, but the first to give customers an opportunity to helf design thier house. This is a reprint of some of those house designs and information.