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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.
The Seattle box is a local variant of the Classic box or foursquare house. Seattle box houses are two or two-and-one-half story single family homes with four main rooms (generally a kitchen, dining room, living room, and entrance hall) on the first floor and four bedrooms on the second floor.
A Shirtwaist house is a variation of the American Four Square architectural style, predominantly built at the beginning of the 20th century. It is characterized by a first floor of exposed brick or limestone and siding-wrapped second and third floors. [1] The style developed and is most commonly found in Kansas City.
Built in 1923 for C.W. Bach, the 2,904-square-foot brick house features three original blueprints hanging on the dining room wall.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- American foursquare is a great name for a housing style. The dictionary defines foursquare as forthright, marked by boldness and conviction; just and fair in business ...
His American Foursquare style home, built in 1911, includes an adjacent tennis court on the lot next door. [4] A successful college athlete, Johnson used his athletic skill and personal funds to found the Junior Development Program of the American Tennis Association during the 1950s.
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 often revivals and re-interpretations. For instance, classicism has been revived many times and found new life as neoclassicism. Each time it is revived ...
The Mosel house at 812 Jenifer St is an American Foursquare-style house built in 1909. Typical of that style, the general shape is a cube with a hip roof. This one also has hip-roofed dormers, red brick cladding on the first story, and stucco cladding above. A large brick porch fronts the house. [13] [4]: 18