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Harry Oliver's Spadena House (1921), also known as the Witch's House, Beverly Hills, California. Storybook architecture or fairytale architecture is a style popularized in the 1920s in England and the United States. Houses built in this style may be referred to as storybook houses.
Cape Cod–style house c. 1920. The Cape Cod house is defined as the classic American house. In the original design, Cape Cod houses had the following features: symmetry, steep roofs, central chimneys, windows at the door, flat design, one to one-and-a-half stories, narrow stairways, and simple exteriors.
The Minimal Traditional style evolved during the 1930s and was a dominant style in domestic architecture until the Ranch-style house emerged in the early 1950s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Descending in part from the bungalows , cottages , and foursquare houses of the early 20th century, Minimal Traditional houses represent a "stripped-down version of the ...
Art Deco. Art Deco design, made popular in the 1920s, is characterized by bold colors and geometric shapes. In New York, the Art Deco style became popular in skyscrapers first — think about the ...
The American Foursquare or "Prairie Box" was a post-Victorian style, which shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright.. During the early 1900s and 1910s, Wright even designed his own variations on the Foursquare, including the Robert M. Lamp House, "A Fireproof House for $5000", and several two-story models for American System-Built Homes.
Styles often spread to other places, so that the style at its source continues to develop in new ways while other countries follow with their own twist. A style may also spread through colonialism, either by foreign colonies learning from their home country, or by settlers moving to a new land. After a style has gone out of fashion, there are ...
Was built in 1881 for John Burt, was sold to Clorinda L Stephens in 1891 and extensively altered. Finally was demolished in 1920s Bagley House: 1869 Italianate: Detroit: Was built for John Judson Bagley and later was converted into the Detroit Conservatory of Music in 1890s and demolished in 1914 for the Statler Hotel. John Stoughton Newberry ...
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