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unusual facts about pattern book



Chester Hills

Chester Hills was author of "The Builder's Guide", an architectural pattern book published in 1846, which, like those of Minard Lafever, influenced architecture in the United States.

Fowler's Folly

Orson Squire Fowler was author of an architectural pattern book that ignited a fad for octagon houses in the United States and perhaps also in Canada.


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Smithsonian Institution Building

Renwick originally intended to detail the building with entirely American sculptural flora in the manner of Benjamin Henry Latrobe's work at the United States Capitol, but the final work used conventional pattern-book designs.