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About
The New Book, Prosperity Plans |
88 Page Softcover or Downloadable eBook, with Online Plans
and Resources
The core of the new book is a direct reprint of Farmers’
Bulletin #1738, Farmhouse Plans, by Wallace Ashby,
published by the United States Department of Agriculture in
1935.
Photos
in the book and on this web site are from the U.S. Farm
Service Administration, Library of Congress, Prints &
Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection
Additional Material - Copyright 2010, Donald J. Berg
2010 edition published by:
Donald J. Berg
PO Box 698, Rockville Centre, NY 11571
Book Cover – A farm
in Bethel, Vermont, Photo by John Collier, 1943
About the Working Drawings
The U.S. Department of Agriculture program that produced the
farmhouse plans in the book continues today as the
Cooperative Farm
Building Plan Exchange. Still centered in the agricultural
and agricultural engineering departments of state
universities, the program continues to make the old plans
available today.
The construction
drawings of most of the homes in
Farmers’ Bulletin #1738 have been scanned by the North
Dakota State University Extension Service and are available
for you to download for free. The small-scale digital prints
are direct reproductions of the original blueprints that
were created in 1934. They have not been updated for modern
use.
The drawings, like the floor plans in the book, should be
used for conceptual purposes only. They do not replace the
need for competent professional design assistance in
developing safe, legal, useful, durable and attractive
homes. Layouts, room dimensions, details and construction
methods shown on the 1934 drawings do not meet modern
construction standards and don’t meet current building code
requirements.
Internet Resources
Click below
for quick links to free downloadable
prints of the original, 1934 working drawings for most of
the farmhouses presented in
Prosperity Plans.
You’ll also find direct links to other
Cooperative Farm
Building Plan Exchange archives with free downloadable plans
for other farmhouses, cabins, cottages, barns and
outbuildings, and online editions of USDA
Farmers’
Bulletins like the
one reprinted in Prosperity Plans.
Internet Resources
Photo taken between 1935 and
1942
Homesteader laying brick walk. North Carolina, 1936
About the
Editor
Don Berg is a member of
the American Institute of Architects and the Society of
Architectural Historians. He has published fifteen books on American
building and landscape design. His designs, articles and interviews
have appeared in Home Magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, Country
Life, Traditional Building, The Old-House Journal and many other
publications. He was a guest on and consultant for HGTV's special,
The American Farmhouse.
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