The Small House for a Moderate Income
Publisher: Hearst's International Library Company
Published: 1915
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: domestic architecture; colonial clapboard house; house plans; floor plans; interior design
Description: <div>Hardback book with teal-colored canvas covers. The front cover has a white rectangle sticker in the center with a color illustration of a house with the title and author underneath. Pictures inside are both black and white and color. Pages show some discoloration from age. 96 pages. Size: 7.25" x 9.25" x 0.75" <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>**From https://library.blog.wku.edu/tag/ekin-wallick: "The book printed in 1915 by Hearst’s International 
Library Company features lovely, pastel illustrations of home exteriors 
and interiors, as well as floor plans, for seventeen homes of varying 
sizes and styles. Wallick is no wall flower author; he has definite 
opinions about design, building materials, subdivision planning, color 
palettes, etc. He saves particular disgust for the multiple 
architectural styles that ran rampant in the late-nineteenth century, 
“the Early Victorian Era, a period of abortions both in the building and
 decorating of houses. We can now look back on this period with a keen 
sense of disgust and fully realize that we are on the threshold of great
 achievement in the matter of house building,” Ekin wrote. He goes on to
 call the Era “one of mediocre architectural achievement. There may be 
many excuses put forth for the unitelligence of the time, but the fact 
still remains that it was most decidedly an architectural blot on our 
national escutcheon.”</div><div><br /></div><div>t is a perfect example of the evolution of architectural styles, 
steering away from the old, tried examples of the Victorian Era and 
defining the Colonial Revival as America’s new style of choice. This 
book, geared toward families with moderate incomes eliminates the 
excessive ornamentation and asymmetrical massing found in many Victorian
 Era homes. The slightly self-righteous Wallick declares the new 
American style “free from affectation, a concrete crystallization of 
common sense. The American architect…strives for unbroken lines in his 
exterior designs, for he knows by experience that they add decidedly to 
the dignity and charm of the house.”</div>