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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.
Built in 1923 for C.W. Bach, the 2,904-square-foot brick house features three original blueprints hanging on the dining room wall.
The layout of the Fireproof House is a response to the American Foursquare, [11] [12] a format popular across the United States in the early 1900s. The Foursquare and Fireproof House shared the common cause for simpler, more economical design. The typical American Foursquare was a simple two-story box divided into four equal quadrants per floor.
The dictionary defines foursquare as forthright, marked by boldness and conviction; just and fair in business dealings, firm and resolute. The architectural style American foursquares - the anti ...
The Vallée Family House is located on the east side of Monroe Avenue, a residential side street east of downtown Westbrook. It is a fairly typical American Foursquare house, roughly square in shape and two stories in height, with a hip roof and clapboard siding. A hip-roof dormer projects from the front-facing roof face, and a single-story hip ...
The Lovel D. Millikan House is a historic home located in Indianapolis, Indiana.It was designed in 1911 by architect Frank Baldwin Hunter and typifies the American Foursquare style.
The Seattle box is a local variant of the Classic box or foursquare house. Seattle box houses are two or two-and-one-half story single family homes with four main rooms (generally a kitchen, dining room, living room, and entrance hall) on the first floor and four bedrooms on the second floor.
American Foursquare architecture in Washington, D.C. (1 P) Pages in category "American Foursquare architecture" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.