Woodward’s Country Homes is a mid-nineteenth-century American pattern book by George E. Woodward, offering designs, plans, and cost estimates for rural and suburban dwellings. Aimed at builders and prospective homeowners, it presents practical examples of cottages and farmhouses with floor plans, elevations, and advice on construction and economy.
The book belongs to the popular tradition of architectural pattern books that helped spread picturesque and balloon-frame building across the expanding United States. Woodward emphasizes affordability and convenience as much as taste, reflecting the aspirations of a growing middle class. It survives as a useful record of Victorian domestic design and the everyday architecture that shaped the American countryside.