Southern Homes and Plan Books: The Architectural Legacy of Leila Ross Wilburn (Wormsloe Foundation Publication Ser.)

Southern Homes and Plan Books showcases the architectural legacy and design philosophy of Leila Ross Wilburn (1885Ð1967) a legacy that includes hundreds of houses in a variety of popular house styles from bungalows to ranch houses built using WilburnÕs plan books during the first six decades of the twentieth century. Wilburn opened her own firm in Atlanta in 1908 and practiced until her death in 1967. She published nine plan books that offered mail order house designs to contractors builders and prospective homeowners and allowed them the ease of choosing a preconceived design and construction plan.Sarah J. Boykin and Susan M. Hunter provide a survey of the southern homes built from WilburnÕs plan books examining WilburnÕs architectural legacy and her achievements as a plan book architect. The book provides beautiful photographs of houses built from her plans along with illustrations from the plan books themselves and other related documents from the time. Readers can thus see how her designs were realized as individual houses and also how they influenced the development of some of the Atlanta areaÕs beloved historical neighborhoods most notably Druid Hills Morningside Virginia-Highland and Candler Park as well as the McDonoughÐAdamsÐKings Highway (MAK) Historic District in Decatur.Today WilburnÕs houses are enjoyed as appealing historic homes and represent some of the richest examples of southern vernacular architecture to emerge from the plan book tradition.

Series: Wormsloe Foundation Publication Ser. (Book 308)

Hardcover: 168 pages

Publisher: University of Georgia Press (August 1 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0820351814

ISBN-13: 978-0820351810

Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.5 x 11 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds