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I would place this house more in the Colonial Revival category, Craftsman houses typically are going to have characteristics such as exposed rafter tails, larger eaves or overhangs, prominent front porches and an overall more "grounded" form. It also appears to me to be older than 1940 but that is just an educated guess (I'm an architect), I very well could be wrong.
It is an interesting house, with the break in siding from the clapboards on the lower half of the house to the shingles on the upper half, not uncommon in shingle style houses or Craftsmans but more so in Colonial Revivals. Also the inverted or cut-in dormer is unusual (and challenging to waterproof effectively I surmise- something we architects have to obsess about haha)
Thanks for your observations and professional opinion. We thought craftsman arts and crafts etc. because of the porch, the wood work inside, the style of fireplace, clean lines the banister and the windows and original from door.
I would place this house more in the Colonial Revival category, Craftsman houses typically are going to have characteristics such as exposed rafter tails, larger eaves or overhangs, prominent front porches and an overall more "grounded" form. It also appears to me to be older than 1940 but that is just an educated guess (I'm an architect), I very well could be wrong.
It is an interesting house, with the break in siding from the clapboards on the lower half of the house to the shingles on the upper half, not uncommon in shingle style houses or Craftsmans but more so in Colonial Revivals. Also the inverted or cut-in dormer is unusual (and challenging to waterproof effectively I surmise- something we architects have to obsess about haha)
It is a handsome house.
So with a recessed dormer such as this one would a canvas awning help?
Thanks for your observations and professional opinion. We thought craftsman arts and crafts etc. because of the porch, the wood work inside, the style of fireplace, clean lines the banister and the windows and original from door.
The interior is somewhat Arts & Crafts and the muntin pattern in the sidelights especially so, and now, looking at the house again I'm seeing more Cape Cod, but the last photo, with the stucco and stained wood porch ceiling doesn't even appear to be the same house. Let's term it an Arts & Crafts Cape Cod
It still strikes me as being older than 1940s, the war made that decade one in which few houses were constructed anyway, but the window pattern on this house seems older to me.
The auditor's page says it was built in 1940 which sounds right for that neighborhood. My dad grew up not far from there and most of that area heading east was built when the city was growing, from the 1930s through the 60s. Many of the homes in that area are Colonial, Cape Cod and some Arts and Crafts were thrown in. The Cape that my dad grew up in was built in about 1960.
It doesn't look like it's in too bad of shape on the inside, mostly cosmetic. Does the basement have mold or water? I see the bank bought it for $50k last year and the company that owns it now bought it for $25k, when it sold in 1999 it was $88k. This is the problem w/the foreclosure crisis in the town the house is located in. After the foreclosed houses sit for a while w/the utilities off the bank doesn't want to mess w/selling it so it sells a huge lot of houses to an investor, it sits long and loses more value.........makes me sick!
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