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Of the 66 square house plans in the district, 34 are four squares, 22 follow the front gable plan and 10 are side gable houses. [2] The rest of the houses in the district represent a number of other styles, including the bungalow. Two of the houses are known as foursquare look-alikes that were built earlier from the others and feature Victorian ...
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.
Built in 1923 for C.W. Bach, the 2,904-square-foot brick house features three original blueprints hanging on the dining room wall.
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.
13 Modern and Post-modern. 14 See also. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular ...
Thomas Nichols Putnam was an early settler of Carrington and the area's pioneer lumber man. He influenced the community's development through his lumberyard business and in many other ways. He served in the North Dakota State House of Representatives from 1910 to 1912 and the North Dakota State Senate from 1914 to 1930 . [2] [3]
The layout of the Fireproof House is a response to the American Foursquare, [11] [12] a format popular across the United States in the early 1900s. The Foursquare and Fireproof House shared the common cause for simpler, more economical design. The typical American Foursquare was a simple two-story box divided into four equal quadrants per floor.
It has also been known as the Joe Friedlander House. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1992. [1] According to its NRHP nomination, it is one of "a rare few" American Foursquare homes in North Dakota that "retain essential integrity of porch, siding and decorative features." [2]