Craftsman style guide - city of glendale, ca

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One-story vernacular examples are often called simply bungalows or the bungaloid style. (excerpt taken from a field guide to american houses by virginia.
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Craftsman Style Guide (Photograph of two-story Craftsman house located on East First Street in Long Beach.) CRAFTSMAN STYLE (c.1900-c.1930) The Craftsman Style was the dominant style for smaller houses built throughout the country during the period from about 1905 until the early 1920s. It originated in southern California and most landmark examples are concentrated there. Like vernacular examples of the contemporaneous Prairie style, it quickly spread throughout the country through pattern books and popular magazines. The style rapidly faded from favor after the mid-1920s; few were built after 1930. Craftsman houses were inspired primarily by the work of two California brothers – Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene – who practiced together in Pasadena from 1893 to 1914. From about 1903 they began to design simple Craftsman-type bungalows; by 1909 they had designed and executed several exceptional landmark examples that have been called the “ultimate bungalows.” Several influ...
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