"Craftsman Style" house architecture is steadily reviving in popularity from
the time of its origin in the early 1900's. The style of design emphasizes the
use of natural materials and simple structural concepts, embellished with
woodwork and detailing created with hand tools. Small one-story house plans were
published in pattern magazines of the time, starting with Gustav Stickley's
The Craftsman (1901-16). Designs are characterized by low-pitched
roofs, exposed rafter ends (especially across a broad front porch) with
decorative beams, brackets, half-timber gables and square tapered columns. Some
of the same design concepts were later amplified and refined by Frank Lloyd
Wright in his Prairie and Usonian prototypes. Plan variations of many of the houses shown on this page are available from in-house resources at G.M. Frech and Associates.
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