Radford’s Cement Houses and How to Build Them: Illustrated details of construction, standard specifications for cement… Perspective views and floor plans of concrete block and cement plaster houses. Chicago: Radford Architectural Company, 1909. 4to (27.5 cm), pictorial color-stamped blue cloth upper cover, blue cloth lower cover. Price list, 4 pp. Ads, numerous b&w illus. With floor plans and perspective illus. A handsome 1909 Arts and Crafts trade catalog and building manual for Radford cement house construction, with detailed directions for building with concrete blocks, waterproofing, forms, floors, walls, steps, farm buildings, chimneys etc, and a variety of home designs and floor plans from which to choose. The Radford Architectural Co. Published over twenty catalogs of designs beginning in 1903 and continuing into the 1920s. According to the Journal of the American Institute of Architects, many of Radford’s cement, plaster, and concrete block house layout options were inspired by the Prairie School designs made popular by Frank Lloyd Wright and his Midwestern contemporaries. CONDITION: Very good, slight soiling on lower flyleaves, otherwise clean, tight and appealing. Radford’s Cement Houses and How to Build Them Illustrated.
