Get inspired by dozens of renderings and floor plans of yesterday's homes, cottages, farmhouses, carriage houses, vintage garages, gate houses and farm outbuildings. If you like any one of the designs, you can read more about it, and find more designs like it by ordering an inexpensive, instant-download reprint of the original 19th century book where it was first published.

These plan pattern eBooks are copies of original house plan books from 1830s Europe, and 1850s to 1920s North America, from early Atlantic developments, throughout the country, to the California bungalows and painted ladies. The house designs and floor plans are the original architecture styles that include: Gothic Revival, Country Farmhouses, Italianate, Romanesque, Cottages, French Country, Folk, Stick-Style, Queen Anne Victorian, Shingle-style; Bungalow, Cape, California Mission, Adobe; Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival.

Visit Merrymeeting Archives to find the books that yesterday's homeowners used to plan their homes, cabins, farm houses, cottages and outbuildings.

You can also take advantage of a free online sampler of the designs:

Free Historic Home and Outbuilding Designs from Merrymeeting Archives