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Prosperity Plans:
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Prosperity Plans - A complete
reprint of the 1935 booklet, Farmhouse Plans,
by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, with forty
small house designs, in a twenty-first century
edition with Internet sources of working drawings
and construction details
Edited by Donald
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Today's architects, builders and
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was the time of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl droughts,
when American's faced economic horrors that make today's
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The designs, first published in the
U.S. Department of Agriculture's booklet, Farmhouse Plans,
show how low-cost, small houses can be planned to grow into
larger, more comfortable homes, over time. The idea was to
help homeowners spread the cost of construction over many
years as houses were expanded in two, three or more stages.
The Growing Houses all started with
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two multi-purpose rooms. Carefully planned additional stages
of construction added more bedrooms and more formal living
spaces with very little demolition and little or no
disruption of family life. Each stage created a new home
that looked as good or better than the one before it.
Kentucky Farmhouse, 1936
North Carolina Growing House, 1937
Prosperity Plans
includes a complete reprint of the original 1935 booklet
with forty home plans, a new forward by architect Donald J. Berg, photos of the
homes and the times, and links to Internet sources of free
downloadable copies of the houses' original construction
drawings and building details.
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Front porch of Clark home built by the Farm Security Administration.
Coffee County, Alabama, photo by John Collier, 1941 See Design
#6517 in Prosperity Plans and in the free 1934 working
drawings available with the book.
About the
Editor and Publisher
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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House and garage at Magnolia Homesteads, Lauderdale County,
Mississippi, photo by Arthur Rothstein, 1935 See Design #6514 in
Prosperity Plans and in the free 1934 working drawings available
with the book.
"Love it...simple yet effective. Easy to follow" J.H. Simi
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