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Understanding Craftsman Architecture

Many older homes in cities today have window in the second floor gable. Roofs
their roots in the Arts and Crafts in this style are generally hipped, with
movement. With their squared, low-lying overhanging eaves on all four sides.
layouts and sturdy construction, these Other common Craftsman features include
homes are often easy to spot, but extensive stonework, rough-hewn wood, and
generally not as widely recognized or stucco exteriors.
studied as Victorian homes from the same The popularization of Craftsman homes is
era - they simply remain unclassified or largely credited to designer Gustav
incorrectly identified as ranchers. As Stickley, a turn of the century architect
years progress, however, the homes, who often featured these homes in his
properly known as "Craftsman" buildings, magazine, The Craftsman. Stickley
are outlasting most Victorian buildings, famously referred to Craftsman style as
and finding more recognition among "a house reduced to its simplest form,"
preservationists and historic home buyers wrote lengthy reviews on home and
who want to ask for them by name. furniture originals by designers Harvey
In some ways it's remarkable that Ellis, the Greene Brothers, and others.
Craftsman-style homes were so attractive, Large numbers of Craftsman homes began
given the round-about way they were appearing in San Diego in the early 20th
conceived. Rather than emerging simply as century, which eventually led to the term
a new architectural form, Craftsman homes "California Bungalow" for these types of
developed as part of the Arts and Crafts homes.
movement, which in many ways was a Craftsman-style homes worked as well for
reaction against the over-decorated and families and middle class as they did for
fragile aesthetics of the Victorian era, designers and artistic activists. One of
as well as the lack of personal touch in the most significant advances made by
many modern-era buildings. Given those these homes was the way they re-aligned
prerequisites, one might have expected an the kitchen area with the rest of the
unfocussed, impressionistic style to main floor - instead of having a
emerge, rather than the refined, often segregated kitchen with a formal dining
symmetrical building shapes for which room, Craftsman homes often had a
Craftsman style homes are known. These built-in "breakfast nook" so that
homes can generally be identified by families could eat closer to the kitchen,
their front entrances featuring a large which then became the center of activity
raised porch with columns on either side, on the upper floor.
a central door, and a single second story




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