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A typical California bungalow, in Berkeley, California. California bungalow is an alternative name for the American Craftsman style of residential architecture, when it was applied to small-to-medium-sized homes rather than the large "ultimate bungalow" houses of designers like Greene and Greene.
The first known example of the style is the Larkin House in Monterey, California, built by Thomas O. Larkin in 1835. The largest example of the style is the Rancho Petaluma Adobe, begun by Mariano Vallejo in Petaluma, California, in 1836. Revivals of the style have been popular in the 20th century, substituting wood framing or brick for adobe.
The bungalow court was created in Pasadena, California, in 1909 and was the predominant form of multi-family housing in Southern California from the 1910s through the 1930s. Homes in bungalow courts were generally small, low-rise (often 1 or 1.5 story) houses in the spirit of bungalow design; however, the homes were designed in a variety of ...
Bronck House, Coxsackie, NY, built 1663; Dutch Colonial. Developed from around 1630 with the arrival of Dutch colonists to New Amsterdam and the Hudson River Valley in what is now New York [9] and in Bergen in what is now New Jersey. [10] [11] Initially the settlers built small, one room cottages with stone walls and steep roofs to allow a ...
The Western White House, a neoclassical Georgian Colonial in the San Francisco Bay Area, has sold for $23 million, according to Compass real estate. Alex Buljan of Compass closed the deal Wednesday.
The Spanish Colonial Revival architecture (Spanish: Arquitectura neocolonial española), often known simply as Spanish Revival, is a term used to encompass a number of revivalist architectural styles based in both Spanish colonial architecture and Spanish architecture in general. [1]
St. Andrews Bungalow Court is a grouping of bungalows built in 1919–20 in the Colonial Revival style in Hollywood, California. Based on the structures' well-preserved multi-family courtyard architecture, the grouping was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [2] [1] The listing included 15 contributing buildings. [2]
The Southern Colonial is typically set back a wider distance from the road to create a feeling of stately elegance. The Georgetown building offers a great example of the Southern Colonial style of architecture in southern California, with a wide setback covered with grass, cut by a running brick walkway leading to wide, crown-molded double doors.