Styles of Architecture ................. Arts & Crafts -Table of Contents

Typical Features of Arts & Crafts/Craftsman Style

Exterior:

• Informal
• Asymmetrical
• Natural materials like wood, tile, and stone
• Low-pitched, gabled roof (occasionally hipped)
• Roof rafters usually exposed
• Decorative (false) beams or braces commonly added under gables
• Wide, unenclosed eaves overhang
• Porches, either full- or partial-width, with roof supported by tapered (battered) square columns
• Columns or pedestals frequently extend to ground level (without a break at level of porch floor)

Interior:

• Built-in cupboards
• Cozy inglenook, with, built-in benches, with ceramic tile floor
• Oak doors, sometimes with leaded glass: Statler House
• Swinging doors

Prairie VS. Arts & Crafts

• Both Prairie and Craftsman/Arts & Crafts (a one- or one-and-a-half-story is a Bungalow) have widely overhanging eaves, but the Prairie style does NOT have exposed rafter tails or decorative beams or braces under the gables
  
  

Bungalows VS. Arts & Crafts

• One-story or 1 1/2-story examples of Craftsman/Arts & Crafts are often called Bungalows
• Bungalows are found especially in the Midwest is the Prairie style

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Examples of Arts & Crafts/Craftsman buildings in Buffalo:

• Automobile Club of Buffalo
  
  
• Engine #15 Fire Station
  
  
• Rohlfs House
  
  
• John Sinclair House
  
  
• Minot Tanner House
  
  
• Statler (William & Essie) House
  
  
• Photo - 310 Depew Ave.
  
  
• Photo - 94 Jewett Ave.
  
  
• Photo - Parkside Lodge - Example #1
  
  
• Photo - Parkside Lodge - Example #2
  
  
• Photo - l40 Maple Ave., Hamburg
  
  
• Photo - Clark Street, Hamburg
  
  
• Photo - 1362 Amherst St.
  
  
• Photo - 54 Agassiz Circle
  
  
• Prairie Houses:
  
  
  • Darwin D. Martin House
    
    
  • George Barton House
    
    
  • William R. Heath House
    
    
  • Walter D. Davidson House
    
    
  • Gardener's Cottage
    
    
  • Photo - 29 Tillinghast Place
    
    
  • Photo - 36 Tillinghast Place
    
    
• Bungalows:

• Exterior Features
  
  
• Interior Features
  
  
• 452 Parkside Avenue
  
  
• Thorne House
  
  
• Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum
  
  
• Bungalow Style Houses in Buffalo, New York, by Tim Tielman
  
  
• Bungalow Houses Are Important, Too, by Dan Tasman

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Examples of Arts & Crafts buildings outside of Buffalo:

• Arts & Crafts - Oliver W. Norton House, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
  
  
• Arts & Crafts - Gamble House, Pasadena, California
  
  
• Bungalow - McVeigh House, Dallas, Texas