1910-1930s

Arts and Crafts

1.5 stories

This style originated in Britain during the mid-19th century when the arts were combined with the crafts to produce high quality houses for the middle class. This style was popular in Britain from 1861-1914, but appeared later in the USA and was particularly popular in California, where the Greene brothers designed many, from hence it diffused eastward in the USA.

The Arts and Crafts style was expressed in the interior and exterior of houses. The glass work comes from the Corning Museum of Glass. On the outside, these have a rustic appearance with its steep gabled roofs, overhanging eaves, exposed crafters, and "earthy" building materials of wooden shingles, stucco, and field stones. Dormers and large front porches are common.

Arts and Crafts houses have these features:
stone, exterior chimney small, high windows on each side of chimneys dormers, usually gabled or shed triangular knee brace supports sloped foundations	fieldstones for accent on the house or along sidewalks
	exposed roof beams and rafter tails or ends

Exposed rafter tails, roof beams, and triangular knee braces are very typical of Arts and Crafts houses. Dormers, on this and other house styles, come in many different forms (gable, eyebrow, hipped, polygonal, curbed, shed).

Arts and Crafts houses have front porches, which can be built of many different materials and in different forms. This style comes in many simple forms as well:

Created by Janet Robinson, 9 June 1997; last revised by Ingolf Vogeler on 27 September 2005.