Hubbard-Roycroft
Museum - Table of Contents
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Roycroft
Campus - Table of
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Exterior
- Elbert Hubbard-Roycroft Museum
Built: |
1910 |
Architect: |
William Roth, a Roycroft architect |
Style: |
Bungalow |
The
entire
Roycroft campus has the highest possible historic
designation: National
Historic
Landmark.
The nomination for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, containing text and illustrations, is online. Go to Document Imaging for National Register. Click on "Basic Criteria" and scroll down to "County - Erie." Then, click on "Results." |
Bungalow feature: 1 1/2 story house Bungalow feature: Stone foundation veranda Large gable over main portion of the house Exterior brick chimney Shed roof supported by rafter tails Dormer Arts & Crafts style ribbon windows Bungalow feature: Widely overhanging eaves with unenclosed rafter tails which usually are painted. Typical Arts & Crafts style small-pane sash Arts & Crafts style bay window s Arts & Crafts style pergola features rafter tails Rix Jennings Memorial Bench. The house is set amidst Arts and Crafts-period gardens, and the surviving central section of a sculpture, Magna Mater, is displayed in one of them. This sculpture panel, initially set out on the lawn next to the Roycroft Inn, was commissioned about 1912 by Hubbard and his second wife, Alice, and is the work of an English artist named Katherine Maltwood who, like Alice Hubbard, was a feminist and suffragist. "Magna Mater: |
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