Southern Homes and Plan Books sho wcases the architectural legacy and design philosophy of Leila Ross Wilbur n (1885&ndash\;1967)\, a legacy that includes hundreds of houses in a vari ety of popular house styles\, from bungalows to ranch houses\, built using Wilburn&rsquo\;s plan books during the first six decades of the twentieth century. Wilburn opened her own firm in Atlanta in 1908 and practiced unt il her death in 1967. She published nine plan books that offered mail orde r 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 Wilburn&rsquo\;s plan books\, examining Wilburn&rsquo\;s architectural legacy and her achievements as a plan book architect. The b ook provides beautiful photographs of houses built from her plans\, along with illustrations from the plan books themselves and other related docume nts from the time. Readers can thus see how her designs were realized as i ndividual houses and also how they influenced the development of some of t he Atlanta area&rsquo\;s beloved historical neighborhoods\, most notably D ruid Hills\, Morningside\, Virginia-Highland\, and Candler Park\, as well as the McDonough&ndash\;Adams&ndash\;Kings Highway (MAK) Historic District in Decatur. Today\, Wilburn&rsquo\;s houses are enjoyed as appealing\, hi storic homes and represent some of the richest examples of southern vernac ular architecture to emerge from the plan book tradition.
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