Bennett's Small House Catalog, 1920

By Ray H Bennett Lumber Co Inc, Bennett Lumber Co., Ray H. Bennett Lumber Co., Inc.

Book Overview

Designs for 56 single family dwellings: cottages, bungalows and colonials, all shown in photographs and floor plans. Also, garage models, plumbing and lighting fixtures, furnaces, kitchen and medicine... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486278093
• ISBN13: 9780486278094
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Another Dover reprint...but an interesting one

Because I spend my spare time looking at old houses and trying to identify their unique charasteristics and different building styles, I bought this book. As a serious researcher on Sears Catalogue Homes, I figured I better know what *other* catalogue homes look like. Bennett's Small House Catalog, 1920, is an 8 x 11" 73 page reprint. It's an interesting book to peruse. There are 7 pages of background info on Bennett in the front and 4 pages of building supplies in the back. That stuff is always an interesting read. The other pages are good quality photos and floorplans (with a sales pitch, too) of the misc. homes sold by Bennett. The photo and reprint quality is very good and the black and white pictures [drawings?] are unusually sharp for a reprint. So, if you're like me and spend your spare moments looking at catalogs of old houses, you'll enjoy this. But there's not a lot of meat here - just old pictures and old descriptions and old sales pitches of old houses. Rose author, The Houses That Sears Built