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• Handbook for Building Homes of Earth (prepared for US Agency for International Development; College Station, TX: Texas Transportation Institute, ca. 1962), by Lyle A. Wolfskill, Wayne A. Dunlap, and Bob M. Gallaway
  • PDF at usaid.gov
  • 1980 reprint; 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 House of All Sorts (1944), by Emily Carr (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• California Tenants: A Guide to Residential Tenants' and Landlords' Rights and Responsibilities (electronic edition; c2010), by California Department of Consumer Affairs (HTML at ca.gov)

• China's Old Dwellings (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c2000), by Ronald G. Knapp (PDF and Epub at Hawaii Open)

• The Thing From the Lake (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1921), by Eleanor M. Ingram (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Housing Conditions in New Haven (New Haven, CT: Civic Federation of New Haven, Committee on Tenement House Conditions, 1913), by Carol Aronovici (page images at Harvard)

• Crumbling Dreams: What You Must Know Before Building or Buying a New House (or Condo), by Ruth S. Martin (HTML at Lakeside Press)

• 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

• Details for Conventional Wood Frame Construction (c2001), by American Wood Council (PDF at awc.org)
• Your Dream Home: How to Build It for Less Than $3,500 (New York: W. H. Wise, 1950), by Hubbard H. Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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

• Hogwild: A Back-to-the-Land Saga (c1993), by Jock Lauterer, contrib. by Maggie Lauterer (PDF at appstate.edu)

• The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns, by Henry Charles Adams (Gutenberg text)

• The Hidden Dangers of Urban Stormwater (ca. 1977), by United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water Program Operations (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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

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

• The House Painter, or, Decorator's Companion (London: Thomas Kelly, 1841), by W. Mullinger Higgins (page images with commentary at Smithsonian)
• Interior Painting (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1910), by F. Maire (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1920), by Daniel Carter Beard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1920), by Daniel Carter Beard (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Historic Montgomery County, Maryland: Old Homes and History (c1952), by Roger Brooke Farquhar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ferry Hill Plantation Journal, January 4, 1838 - January 15, 1839, by John Blackford, ed. by Fletcher M. Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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)

• 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 with commentary at archives.gov)

• 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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