Hopkins, Alfred MODERN FARM BUILDINGS
NY: Robert M. McBride, 1916 Second printing. Quarto. 206 pp; numerous b/w plates, 77 text figures, mostly line drawings & floor plans. Original dark green cloth with gilt-stamped lettering on cover and spine, in dustjacket. VG+/VG, book is clean & tight; jacket has short edge tears. First published in 1913. An architect specializing in country houses and particularly in farm group architecture, Alfred Hopkins presents the most approved ways of designing the various barns and other buildings from an artistic as well as practical viewpoint. He covers every phase of scientific stable building - planning, materials and constructive details of cow barns, horse stables, garages, hay barns, silos, corn cribs, dairies, chicken houses, root cellars, ice houses, etc. Included are farm buildings for Louis C. Tiffany in Oyster Bay, and for Otto Kahn in Morristown, NJ. Inventory number #008150
