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Edelweiss, A Swiss Cottage Style House
Edelweiss, a Swiss Cottage style house in Natchez, Mississippi. Edelweiss may have been based on a design in E.C. Gardner’s “Illustrated Homes,” published in Boston in 1875. It was built for coal dealer Joseph O’Brien on the high bluff overlooking the Mississippi River in 1883. Natchez is famed for its Antebellum houses, but this house…
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Restoring Your Historic House, The Comprehensive Guide for Homeowners describes and illustrates a best-practices approach for updating historic homes for modern life in ways that do not attempt to turn an old house into a new one. With interior and exterior photography by David Clough, these multi-page features show what can be achieved when a historic home is renovated with a desire to preserve as much historic character as possible.
Scott T. Hanson is a historic-building preservation professional and has 40 years’ experience rehabilitating historic houses. He has illustrated this authoritative book with hundreds of step-by-step photos, illustrations, charts, and decision-making guides. Interspersed throughout are photo essays of 13 restored historic houses representing a range of periods and architectural styles: Italianate, Victorian, Queen Anne, Federal, Colonial, Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Ranch, Adobe, Craftsman, Shingle, and Rustic.
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