During the twenties brick veneer emerged as the dominate material for the body of the house. The houses on Willis and Richard are typical of the Craftsman Bungalow. Houses from 1906 through 1920 are typically wood siding a three inch drop siding pattern. The wood box column was assembled from standard mill trim that could be assembled by a carpenter on job-site. The rafter tails are exposed and occasionally with a "fancy cut" end.įront columns usually extend from the ground up, and brick is usually about half of the total height. The majority of the houses from this period have multiple gables, in this neighborhood as many as five per roof. Typical houses are one story with gabled roofs, wide porches, extended overhangs, heavy wood brackets or corbels, masonry with wood box columns, and fireplaces located on an exterior wall. The credo of Stickley was to keep materials simple and unadorned. ![]() The Craftsman style bungalow is based on the writings of Gustav Stickley and his magazine the "Craftsman" and the widely published work of Greene and Greene Architects in California. The Prairie School House continued the search for an American Architecture for the new century.Ĭraftsman houses expressed a movement toward a simpler architecture following the excesses of "Queen Anne" Victorian design. The best examples within Vickery Place are 5506, 54 Vickery, 5504 Willis, and simpler versions are 52 Goodwin. The best example of the Prairie School design, in Dallas, is 5501 Swiss Avenue. ![]() Entry porches are broad and large, usually asymmetric to the front elevation. Front columns are simple masonry columns without the half wooden box column of the Craftsman houses. The hot humid climate of Texas resulted in the use of double hung windows.īrick is the dominant exterior material. The Chicago School Architects preferred the casement window. The windows are large units installed in multiples, commonly three to five in a row. Architectural elements that reinforced the horizontal line included belt courses in the brick or a continuous accent at the upper level window sill, a change in material on the upper section of the wall, and the extension of the house to include a porte cochere. The rafter tails of the Craftsman bungalow are enclosed to create a more horizontal emphasis. ![]() Wright's houses have a cross axial plan and center fireplace with a low pitched hipped roof with extended eaves. The Prairie School House emerged from Chicago and the American mid-west.įrank Lloyd Wright in the William Willett House of 1902 found a cohesive form that included all the aspects common to this new style. The Craftsman Bungalow and the Prairie School House emerged simultaneously from the same Art & Crafts philosophy yet with two different forms and from two different regions. Each style incorporates certain criteria that is required, as well as a choice of certain optional features. The conservation district allows new construction coming into the area to reflect one of these three styles. These three styles, Prairie, Craftsman and Tudor, make up 90% of the homes in the neighborhood and are included in the Vickery Place Conservation District. Tudor style homes came along in the 1920's and made a nice transition into the newly developed Greenland Hills neighborhood to our north, which was than and still is today made up of predominantly Tudor style homes. It is still the most predominant style of home found in Vickery Place. Even though these were much smaller 1 story homes, they were compatible with the neighboring Prairie homes because they shared a setback and were clad in wood with wide front porches. ![]() These are still the showcase homes of Vickery Place today.Ī few years later, blocks were in-filled with Craftsman bungalows. The first style of homes to be built in Vickery Place were the 2-story Prairie style homes-at least one per block were built and served as the model homes of the day.
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