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Historic Homes: Craftsman

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Style Characteristics

• Popular from about 1900-1920

• Popularized by Gustav Stickley

• Often made from precut components available for purchase by mail-order catalogue

• Interior typically featured high wainscot integrated with door and windows as part of structural decoration

• Interior stairway to upper floor is an important feature

• Non-symetrical façade usually of stucco, wood, clapboard, or wood shingles

• Partial width or full-width gabled porch with square columns or tapered square colums that support porch roof

• Low to moderately pitched roof

• Wide overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails

• Frequently exterior chimneys of stone construction

• Double hung windows are common with multiple panes in upper sash and single pane in lower sash

• Heavily framed casement windows

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