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Arts &
Crafts/Craftsman Style in Buffalo, NY
See Brief History of the Arts and Crafts (Craftsman) Movement
Exterior feature:
- Informal
- Asymmetrical
- "Ground-hugging" effect, more horizontal than vertical
- Blurring of the distinction between indoors and outdoors
- Natural materials like stained or dark-painted wood (clapboards or shingles) or stucco, with stone reserved for foundations, lower walls, porch pillars, and landscaping features like planters
- 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)
- Large, multi-paned windows and doors
Interior features:
- Built-in cupboards
- Cozy inglenook, with, built-in benches, with ceramic tile floor
- Oak doors, sometimes with leaded glass: Statler House
- Swinging doors
See also:
Prairie VS. Arts & Crafts
- A substyle of Arts & Ctrafts is Prarie style
- 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
- A substyle of Arts & Ctrafts is Bungalow
- 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
Examples of Arts & Crafts/Craftsman buildings in Buffalo:
Webster House
Automobile Club of Buffalo CLARENCE
Engine #15 Fire Station
Rohlfs House
Sinclair House
Tanner House
Statler (William & Essie) House
Turk House
Holmes House
Craftsman/Dutch Colonial Revival Style of Architecture in Buffalo
Hubbard and Wright Prototypes Combined in the East Aurora Village Shopping Center
Esenwein & Johnson-designed Interior
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
STAINED GLASS: John LaFarge
STAINED GLASS: Unitarian Universalist Church, Buffalo
STAINED GLASS: Esenwein & Johnson-designed Interior
Examples of Arts & Crafts buildings outside of Buffalo:
- Arts & Crafts/Craftsman - Oliver W. Norton House, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
- Arts & Crafts/Craftsman - Gamble House, Pasadena, California
- Bungalow - McVeigh House, Dallas, Texas
