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{{Short description|Book of standardized architectural designs}}
A '''pattern book''', or '''architectural pattern book''', is a book of architectural designs, usually providing enough for non-architects to build structures that are copies or significant derivatives of major architect-designed works.
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[[Orson Squire Fowler]] notably made a mark on [[American architecture]] when he touted the advantages of [[octagon architecture|octagonal homes]] over rectangular and square structures in his widely publicized book, ''The Octagon House: A Home For All, or A New, Cheap, Convenient, and Superior Mode of Building'', printed in the year 1848.<ref>The Octagon House, Orson S Fowler: Dover Publications, Inc., first edition 1848, 1853 edition reprinted in 1973.</ref> It is argued by some that this is incorrectly termed a pattern book, but as a result of this popular and influential publication, a few thousand octagonal houses were in fact erected in the United States.
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[[Palliser, Palliser & Company]] published nine pattern books, the first of which sold for $.25 and achieved wide distribution, during the period from 1876 to 1896.
After the [[American Civil War]], [[Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada|Second Empire architecture]] was considered the perfect style for many to demonstrate their wealth and express their new power in their respective communities. The style diffused by the publications of designs in [[pattern books]] and adopted the adaptability and [[eclecticism]] that Italianate architecture had when interpreted by more middle-class clients.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lanier|first1=Gabrielle|title=Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes|page=155}}</ref> This caused more modest homes to depart from the ornamentation found in French examples in favor of simpler and more eclectic American ornamentation that had been established in the 1850s. In practice, most Second Empire houses simply followed the same patterns developed by [[Alexander Jackson Davis]] and [[Samuel Sloan (architect)|Samuel Sloan]], the symmetrical plan, the L-plan, for the Italianate style, adding a mansard roof to the composition. Thus, most Second Empire houses exhibited the same ornamentational and stylistic features as contemporary Italianate forms, differing only in the presence or absence of a mansard roof. Second Empire was also a frequent choice of style for [[Renovation|remodeling]] older houses. Frequently, owners of Italianate, Colonial, or Federal houses chose to add a mansard roof and French ornamental features to update their homes in the latest fashions.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Brown|first1=T. Robins|title=The Architecture of Bergen County, New Jersey: The Colonial Period to the Twentieth Century|date=2001|page=122}}</ref>▼
After the [[American Civil War]], [[Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada|Second Empire architecture]] was considered the perfect style for many to demonstrate their wealth and express their new power in their respective communities. The style diffused by the publications of designs in pattern books and adopted the adaptability and [[Eclecticism in architecture|eclecticism]] that [[Italianate architecture]] had when interpreted by more middle-class clients.<ref>{{cite book
|last1=Lanier|first1=Gabrielle
|last2=Herman|first2=Bernard L.
|title=Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes
|series=Creating the North American Landscape
|publisher=[[JHU Press]]
|date=1997
|page=155
|isbn=0-8018-5325-7
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==See also==
*[[Pattern (architecture)]]
*[[A Pattern Language]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Architecture books]]
[[Category:Architectural pattern books| ]]
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