Bought a home and wanting to know what homes around the early 20th century (circa 1903) colors for the exterior. any web sites or other resourses with colored pictures would be great.A 1903 Craftsmen Home. Wanting to know paint schemes for exterior to match original colors used in 1903.?
I do know that exterior colors were generally ';earthy'; in tone at that time, particularly in craftsman homes. Greens were ';mossy';, browns were popular and reds were of a ';burnt'; shade. Think of autumnal colors. Usually siding would be one color, trim another and window mullions a third (usually reddish in tone). The point was to reflect materials and design which was ';honest'; and somewhat muted.
By all means, check out 'American Bungalow' magazine for ideas and inspiration. It's a great resource:
http://www.ambungalow.com/AmBungalow/hom鈥?/a>A 1903 Craftsmen Home. Wanting to know paint schemes for exterior to match original colors used in 1903.?
I think those homes were done in olive greens,mocha brown would be cool with a burgundy trim.Try HGTV.com for some decorating ideas.
Gustav Stickley and
The Craftsman Home
An exhibition presented by The Craftsman Farms Foundation. Brochure written by Ray Stubblebine
Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms 973-540-1165
2352 Rt. 10-W, Box 5, Morris Plains, NJ 07950
漏The Craftsman Farms Foundation, Inc. 1995
Ray Stubblebine 973-599-2966
863 Midland Rd., Oradell, NJ 07649;
RStubblebi@aol.com
Craftsman Home ID Guide
Search for a Craftsman Home
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Arts %26amp; Crafts Movement Resource Directory.
Identifying Characteristics of a Craftsman Home
The search for Craftsman homes is a continuing project for Ray Stubblebine, the curator of this exhibition and author of the accompanying brochure. Ray has discovered many houses himself, and many have been pointed out to him by people all over the country who have been alert to their distinctive Craftsman features.
Gustav Stickley and The Craftsman Home
GUSTAV STICKLEY (1858-1942) so synthesized, romanticized and popularized the Arts %26amp; Crafts style of architecture during the first two decades of this century that today the style is known generically as ';Craftsman.';
However, only a house originating from plans published by Stickley through his magazine The Craftsman can be a true Craftsman Home. He published descriptions and drawings of homes in this magazine beginning in 1901. In the January 1904 issue, he featured the first official Craftsman Home and announced that henceforth the magazine would feature at least one house a month, and subscribers could send away for a set of plans for one house from the series per year, free of charge.
The Craftsman plans offered the average American family a house that was a home, based on the bedrock virtues of beauty, simplicity, utility and organic harmony. Stickley believed that the ';nesting instinct'; was ';the most deep seated impulse'; of humankind. He wrote in the magazine:
The word that is best loved in the language of every nation is home, for when a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of his life.
He intended in his home designs ';to substitute the luxury of taste for the luxury of costliness; to teach that beauty does not imply elaboration or ornament; to employ only those forms and materials which make for simplicity, individuality and dignity of effect.'; Today we are left with an unexplored legacy. Stickley's furniture has been researched and the findings presented in many books and articles, but his architectural contributions have yet to be fully examined. Perhaps this is because collectors whose passion is furnishings have yet to try collecting the ultimate Arts %26amp; Crafts piece-the piece everything was designed to fit into-a Craftsman Home.
How do we recognize a Craftsman Home?
Like a piece of Stickley furniture, a Craftsman Home has refinement of design and quality of construction and finish.
It is often site related and placed to advantage using the site.
The house is built with materials found on the site, and/or natural materials native to the region.
As with Stickley's furniture, the house designs rely on exposed structural elements for decorative details. The variety of natural materials provide textures for light to play on.
Voids, in the form of recessed porches and entrance ways, and terraces and pergolas, create visual interest.
Interiors emphasize form and function. Space is conservatively and creatively used for living, with design elements utilizing wood and built-in spaces such as inglenooks, benches and cabinets.
Light fixtures and hardware relate as design elements.
This philosophy and these decorative details were expensive to execute. Consequently, although the homes were idealistically conceived for the masses, they were built primarily by the middle class.
The rich had Greene and Greene, Frank Lloyd Wright and others as their Arts %26amp; Crafts-style architects. The poorer folk built Sears and Aladdin ';kit'; homes.
The middle class used Stickley's Craftsman Home plans, which they modified to suit their tastes and requirements and had built by local builders.
How many of these houses were actually built?
Stickley designed at least 241 homes and published over 221 plans.
He expended great effort promoting them, publishing a number of promotional pamphlets and at least two books, Craftsman Homes and More Craftsman Homes. [These books are available in inexpensive, quality reprints from Dover Publications.] Many of the house designs featured in this exhibit are described in these books.
We do not know how many were actually built but believe that a great many were built across the country. We speculate that the educated middle class built them and that they will be found mostly in areas around cities where the first suburban expansion took place. In larger cities they will be found in areas serviced at the turn-of-the century by commuter railroads and street cars. They will also be found in towns with universities or art communities.
Who designed them?
We don't yet know for sure who designed the Craftsman houses. There are many different styles in the renderings, indicating different draftsmen at work. No architects are listed on Stickley's payroll records, but a number of draftsmen are noted as being in the architectural department. Of course there may have been a number of unlicensed architects among those draftsmen.
Nevertheless, considering Stickley's intense interest in the project, it is safe to say that he had major responsibility for the designs. Probably he had professional help along the way, and perhaps the designs were seen by a consultant at some point. Some few designs are out of character and may be the work of other architects. Before he established his new business he traveled to Europe and around the U.S., and he surely was aware of the various architectural styles of Josef Hoffmann, C. F. A. Voysey and M. H. Baillie-Scott, as well as Will Bradley interiors and the houses of the Prairie School movement, led by Frank Lloyd Wright. Also, Stickley appears to have been a ';quick read'; and may have learned a great deal from his brief associations with architects E. G. W. Dietrich and Harvey Ellis.
The house plans fall into four different periods
David Cathers, in his book, The Furniture of the Arts and Crafts Movement, divides Stickley's furniture work into periods. This system can be adapted to fit Stickley's house designs:
The Experimental period is 1900-1903;
The First Mission period, 1904-1907;
The Mature period, 1909-1915;
The Final Mission period, 1916.
From its beginning The Craftsman published house plans. Interior room designs began appearing in 1901, perhaps to display the furniture in the proper setting. Stickley must have known that it did not look good in the Victorian interiors of the time. The first house article was called ';The Planning of a Home'; and featured a design by architect Henry Wilhelm Wilkinson.
The Experimental period is 1900-1903
In the early Experimental period The Craftsman printed suggestions for architectural details, although not always complete house plans. The prototypical Craftsman House appeared, a suburban house ';by the United Crafts,'; in an article by editor Irene Sargent. The design of the interior resembles the furniture-massive, plain and simple.
In early 1903, several houses designed by architect E. G. W. Dietrich appeared and the term ';Craftsman House'; was first used. All interiors, of course, showed Craftsman furniture. The relationship was being established: the furniture and the houses go together into a new living environment. The furniture was only part of a much broader picture-a new life style.
During 1903, architect/designer/artist Harvey Ellis came to work for Stickley and this brief relationship (Ellis died in 1904) strongly influenced Stickley for the rest of his career. Ellis designed a line of lighter, more art nouveau-looking furniture, and he wrote and drew extensively in The Craftsman. A series of very interesting conceptual houses by Ellis were published during 1903, including a Craftsman Home (a suburban house), an Adirondack camp, an urban town house and even a summer chapel and a farm house.
These designs were unlike anything previously published in The Craftsman. After Ellis' death the overt influences gradually disappeared, as Stickley reverted to plainer and more rectilinear designs. But the use of the curve and other Ellis signatures continued to show up in the furniture and houses.
ALSO CHECK THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS TO FIND ACTUAL PICTURES
Amazon.ca: Craftsman Bungalows : 59 Homes from ';the Craftsman ...The various photos and descriptions of houses from the era are excellent resources for anyone furnishing a Craftsman home or bungalow ...
www.amazon.ca/s?ie=UTF8%26amp;index=books-ca鈥?- 54k - Cached - Similar pages
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