Move to the suburbs and live the fashionable Victorian way with your own tower out front. Very stylish in 1852. Villa designs taken from Samuel Sloan’s “The model architect. a series of original designs for cottages, villas, suburban residences, etc., accompanied by explanations, specifications, estimates, and elaborate details : prepared expressly for the use of projectors and artisans throughout the United States”. Published in Philadelphia in 1852.

Design I: Perspective and Italian Villa. Plates I and II, Page 18 from The model architect. a series of original designs for cottages, villas, suburban residences, etc., accompanied by explanations, specifications, estimates, and elaborate details : prepared expressly for the use of projectors and artisans throughout the United States. P. S. Duval’s Steam Lithographic Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania lithographers after a drawing by Samuel Sloan, architect. E. S. Jones and Company, Philadelphia, publishers. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/modelarchitectse01sloa/page/n18/mode/1up

Design III. Side Elevation and Gothic Villa. Plate XI and XII. Plates I and II, Page 44 from The model architect. a series of original designs for cottages, villas, suburban residences, etc., accompanied by explanations, specifications, estimates, and elaborate details : prepared expressly for the use of projectors and artisans throughout the United States. P. S. Duval’s Steam Lithographic Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania lithographers after a drawing by Samuel Sloan, architect. E. S. Jones and Company, Philadelphia, publishers. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/modelarchitectse01sloa/page/n44/mode/1up

Design II. Perspective View and English Gothic Style (scale ten feet to the inch). Plate VI and VII, Page 32 from The model architect. a series of original designs for cottages, villas, suburban residences, etc., accompanied by explanations, specifications, estimates, and elaborate details : prepared expressly for the use of projectors and artisans throughout the United States. P. S. Duval’s Steam Lithographic Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania lithographers after a drawing by Samuel Sloan, architect. E. S. Jones and Company, Philadelphia, publishers. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/modelarchitectse01sloa/page/n32/mode/1up
Design VII. Perspective view and Elizabethan Villa. Plates XXV and XXVI, Page 72 from The model architect. a series of original designs for cottages, villas, suburban residences, etc., accompanied by explanations, specifications, estimates, and elaborate details : prepared expressly for the use of projectors and artisans throughout the United States. P. S. Duval’s Steam Lithographic Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania lithographers after a drawing by Samuel Sloan, architect. E. S. Jones and Company, Philadelphia, publishers. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/modelarchitectse01sloa/page/n72/mode/1up
Design VIII. Italian Residence and Ornamental Villa. Plate XXIX and XXX, Page 82 from The model architect. a series of original designs for cottages, villas, suburban residences, etc., accompanied by explanations, specifications, estimates, and elaborate details : prepared expressly for the use of projectors and artisans throughout the United States. P. S. Duval’s Steam Lithographic Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania lithographers after a drawing by Samuel Sloan, architect. E. S. Jones and Company, Philadelphia, publishers. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/modelarchitectse01sloa/page/n82/mode/1up
Design IX. Front Elevation and Side Elevation. Page 94 from The model architect. a series of original designs for cottages, villas, suburban residences, etc., accompanied by explanations, specifications, estimates, and elaborate details : prepared expressly for the use of projectors and artisans throughout the United States. P. S. Duval’s Steam Lithographic Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania lithographers after a drawing by Samuel Sloan, architect. E. S. Jones and Company, Philadelphia, publishers. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/modelarchitectse01sloa/page/n94/mode/1up
Design X. A Norman Villa. Plate XXXIX Page 106 from The model architect. a series of original designs for cottages, villas, suburban residences, etc., accompanied by explanations, specifications, estimates, and elaborate details : prepared expressly for the use of projectors and artisans throughout the United States. P. S. Duval’s Steam Lithographic Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania lithographers after a drawing by Samuel Sloan, architect. E. S. Jones and Company, Philadelphia, publishers. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/modelarchitectse01sloa/page/n106/mode/1up