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The American Foursquare or "Prairie Box" was a post-Victorian style, which shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright.. During the early 1900s and 1910s, Wright even designed his own variations on the Foursquare, including the Robert M. Lamp House, "A Fireproof House for $5000", and several two-story models for American System-Built Homes.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- American foursquare is a great name for a housing style. The dictionary defines foursquare as forthright, marked by boldness and conviction; just and fair in business ...
A Shirtwaist house is a variation of the American Four Square architectural style, predominantly built at the beginning of the 20th century. It is characterized by a first floor of exposed brick or limestone and siding-wrapped second and third floors. [1] The style developed and is most commonly found in Kansas City.
The district developed between about 1908 and 1916, and includes representative examples of Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, Bungalow / American Craftsman, and American Foursquare style architecture. Notable buildings include the Adolph Brandenberger House (1910). [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
Built in 1923 for C.W. Bach, the 2,904-square-foot brick house features three original blueprints hanging on the dining room wall.
Architectural style: Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Queen Anne, American Four Square: ... American Foursquare, Victorian Gothic, Late Federal and Italianate. [2]
The majority of the dwellings built on Victoria Boulevard after 1910 were smaller American Foursquares. The same reductionist egalitarian and democratic spirit that spawned interest in the Colonial as a style for homes of those of comfortable means generated the style that is now known as the American Foursquare.
It was built about 1915, and is a two-story, vernacular frame American Foursquare style dwelling. It was built for Dr. York W. Bailey (1881-1971), a prominent native of the island who was St. Helena's first African-American doctor and only resident physician for over 50 years. He lived in this house until his death in 1971.