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• Haunted houses -- Great Britain
• Manors -- Great Britain
• Suburban homes -- Great Britain
• Dwellings -- England
• Dwellings -- Scotland
• Dwellings -- Wales

• Picturesque Views of Seats of Great Britain and Ireland, by F. O. Morris, ed. by Nicholas Rougeux, illust. by A. F. Lydon (illustrated HTML with commentary at c82.net)

• Picturesque Views of Seats of Great Britain and Ireland, by F. O. Morris, ed. by Nicholas Rougeux, illust. by A. F. Lydon (illustrated HTML with commentary at c82.net)

• Bealby: A Holiday (New York: Macmillan, 1915), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Bealby: A Holiday (Chicago and New York: M. A. Donohue and Co., 1915), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History and Description, With Graphic Illustrations, of Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire, the Seat of the Earl of Essex (London: The author, 1837), by John Britton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain (illustrated edition; London: Reeves and Turner, ca. 1912), by John H. Ingram (page images at HathiTrust)

• Some Haunted Houses of England and Wales (London: E. Nash, 1908), by Elliott O'Donnell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Haunted Houses of London (London: E. Nash, 1909), by Elliott O'Donnell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• More Haunted Houses of London (London: E. Nash Co., c1920), by Elliott O'Donnell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Alleged Haunting of B-- House, Including a Journal Kept During the Tenancy of Colonel Lemesurier Taylor (London: G. Redway, 1899), ed. by A. Goodrich-Freer and John Patrick Crichton-Stuart Bute
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Some Haunted Houses of England and Wales (London: E. Nash, 1908), by Elliott O'Donnell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Manor House School (London et al.: Blackie and Son, n.d.), by Angela Brazil, illust. by Arthur A. Dixon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Villa Gardener: Comprising the Choice of a Suburban Villa Residence; the Laying Out, Planting, and Culture of the Garden and Grounds; and the Management of the Villa Farm, Including the Dairy and Poultry-Yard (London: W. S. Orr and co., 1850), by J. C. Loudon, ed. by Mrs. Loudon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Houses in Roman Cirencester (Cirencester, UK: Cirencester Excavation Committee, Corinium Museum, 1986), by Alan McWhirr (PDF at Cotswold Archaeology)

• The Rookeries of London: Past, Present, and Prospective (second edition; London: Thomas Bosworth, 1852), by Thomas Beames (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• The Country Gentleman's Pocket Companion, and Builder's Assistant, for Rural Decorative Architecture (second edition; London: Robert Sayer, 1756), by William Halfpenny and John Halfpenny (page images at Wisconsin)

• Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages During the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney (London & New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1904), by Constance Hill, illust. by Ellen G. Hill
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Country Gentleman's Pocket Companion, and Builder's Assistant, for Rural Decorative Architecture (second edition; London: Robert Sayer, 1756), by William Halfpenny and John Halfpenny (page images at Wisconsin)

• London Shadows: A Glance at the "Homes" of the Thousands (London: George Routledge and Co., 1854), by George Godwin (illustrated HTML and victorianlondon.org)

• Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey, by Washington Irving (Gutenberg text)
• The Making of Abbotsford, and Incidents in Scottish History, Drawn From Various Sources (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1897), by Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Better Homes in America: Plan Book for Demonstration Week, October 9 to 14, 1922, by Better Homes in America (Gutenberg text)

• The Principles and Practice of Modern House-Construction (6 volumes; London et a.: Blackie and Son, Ltd., ca. 1899), ed. by G. Lister Sutcliffe
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org

• Supplement to Bicknell's Village Builder, Containing Eighteen Modern Designs for Country and Suburban Houses of Moderate Cost, With Elevations, Plans, Sections, and a Variety of Details (New York: A. J. Bicknell and Co, 1871) (page images at ohiomemory.org)

• More Other Homes and Garbage: Designs for Self-Sufficient Living (originally published 1981), by Jim Leckie, Gilbert M. Masters, Harry Whitehouse, and Lily Y. Young (PDF at Cornell)

• The Lighting Pattern Book for Homes (online edition, 2007), by Russell P. Leslie and Kathryn M. Conway (PDF files with commentary at RPI)

• Hints and Tips for the Handyman (New York et al.: Pitman Pub. Corp., 1960), by Bernard Gladstone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Home Mechanic: A Manual for Industrial Schools and Amateurs (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1905), by John Wright
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Samoan House Building, Cooking, and Tattooing (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #15; Honolulu: The Museum, 1924), by E. S. Craighill Handy and Willowdean C. Handy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Home Security Handbook, by Crime and Violence Prevention Center (Calif.) (PDF at UCSC)

• The Bungalow Book (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Charles E. White (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text)

• Report on Survey of Concrete House Construction Systems (ca. 1934), by Portland Cement Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Manual on School-Houses and Cottages for the People of the South, by C. Thurston Chase (page images at MOA)

• The Architecture of Country Houses: Including Designs for Cottages, Farm-Houses, and Villas; With Remarks on Interiors, Furniture, and the Best Modes of Warming and Ventilating (fifteenth thousand; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1859), by A. J. Downing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The House: A Pocket Manual of Rural Architecture: or, How to Build Country Houses and Out-Buildings, by Daniel Harrison Jacques (page images at MOA)
• Rural Homes: or, Sketches of Houses Suited to American Country Life, With Original Plans, Designs, &c. (New York: C. Scribner, 1852), by Gervase Wheeler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)

• When to Do House Cleaning Jobs (1972), by United States Department of Agriculture
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at archives.gov; pages may be in reverse order in some browsers

• Houseboat Days in China, by J. O. P. Bland (illustrated HTML at talesofoldchina.com)
• Virginia: The Old Dominion, As Seen From its Colonial Waterway, the Historic River James (Boston: The Page Co., 1921), by Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins
  • HTML and page images at LOC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Regional Guidelines for Building Passive Energy Conserving Homes (Washington: Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1978), by AIA Research Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds of Small Extent (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1870), by Frank J. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sybaris and Other Homes, by Edward Everett Hale (page images at MOA)

• Plank-And-Beam Framing for Residential Buildings (c2003), by American Wood Council (PDF at awc.org)

• Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines (Washington, DC: Government Print. Office, 1881), by Lewis Henry Morgan
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Modern Maya Houses: A Study of Their Archaeological Significance (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #502; 1938), by Robert Wauchope (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beauty for Ashes (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1914), by Albion Fellows Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Housing of the Unskilled Wage Earner: America's Next Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Recent Trends in American Housing (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, Their Arrangement and Construction (third edition; London: The Society For Improving The Condition Of The Labouring Classes, ca. 1853), by Henry Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Housing Famine, How to End It: A Triangular Debate, by John J. Murphy, Edith Elmer Wood, and Frederick Lee Ackerman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Housing Problem in War and Peace (1918), by Charles Harris Whitaker, Frederick Lee Ackerman, Richard S. Childs, and Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sybaris and Other Homes, by Edward Everett Hale (page images at MOA)

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