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The native thatched roof huts were adapted by the British, who built bungalows as houses for administrators and as summer retreats. [2] Refined and popularized in California, many books list the first California house dubbed a bungalow as the one designed by the San Francisco architect A. Page Brown in the early 1890s.
After being listed for sale for 3½ years, the home was purchased in 1992 by Brent Harris, an investment manager, and his wife Beth Edwards Harris, an architectural historian, for $1.5 million. [ 3 ] Seeking to restore the home to its original design, the Harrises contacted Marmol Radziner + Associates to undertake the five-year project, which ...
Overhangs on two sides of Pennsylvania Dutch barns protect doors, windows, and other lower-level structures. Overhangs on all four sides of barns and larger, older farmhouses are common in Swiss architecture. An overhanging eave is the edge of a roof, protruding outwards from the side of the building, generally to provide weather protection.
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In November 2016, the home went up for sale at a price of $4.5 million. [2] It wound up selling for $3.26 million in February 2019 to Alison Sarofim, who began another renovation project later that year. Soil under the home's foundation had subsided and Mark Haddaway was brought in stabilize the residence and prevent further slippage. [3]
Desirable features for a home on the real estate market tend to be hardwood floors, or ceiling-to-floor windows, or a walk-in pantry, but a particular feature in this San Jose house for sale might ...
A dingbat apartment building in Southern California (Santa Monica) A dingbat is a type of apartment building that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, a vernacular variation of shoebox style "stucco boxes". Dingbats are boxy, two or three-story apartment houses with overhangs sheltering street-front ...
The Hope Residence is a house at 2466 Southridge Drive in Palm Springs, California. It is 23,600 sq ft (2,190 m 2) in size. [1] The house was built for the American entertainers Bob and Dolores Hope and completed in 1979. The house is noted for its large undulating triangular roof, with a large central light shaft. [2]