Modern buildings
Modern Buildings is an 1890 architectural pattern book of domestic and church designs issued by the Elmira, New York firm Pierce & Dockstader for prospective clients and builders. The pictures are pen-and-ink perspective drawings of large Queen Anne style houses with steep gabled roofs, bay windows, wrap-around porches and shingled walls, shown in leafy street settings. A designer could draw on their dense line hatching, varied roof silhouettes and tree-framed compositions for period architectural illustration.
