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10 unusual facts about American Craftsman


Arequipa Pottery

The Arequipa Pottery was an Arts and Crafts pottery near Fairfax, Marin County, California, situated at the Arequipa Sanatorium.

Bluff Heights, Long Beach, California

Bluff Heights is a neighborhood in Long Beach, CA composed mainly of Craftsman bungalows constructed from approximately 1910 to 1923.

Bluff Park, Long Beach, California

The historic district includes a variety of architectural styles, including Greene and Greene, American Craftsman, California Bungalow, Spanish Revival, Prairie Style, American Colonial Revival, Tudor and Mediterranean from the early 1900s.

Burlingame, San Diego

Burlingame is a historic district recognized by the City of San Diego for its Craftsman Bungalow, Tudor Revival, Mission Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, Prairie School, Art Deco and California Ranch architectural styles as well as properties that are hybrids of several styles.

Grace Hudson

Returning to California, Grace and John Hudson lived the rest of their days leading a modest bohemian lifestyle of collecting, traveling, field work, reading, entertaining, photography and painting based in The Sun House in Ukiah, a Craftsman-style California bungalow they designed and had built of redwood in 1911.

John William Merrow

In 1900, he was the architect of the East Blue Hill Library in East Blue Hill, Maine, designed in the American Craftsman style.

L. D. Esty

The Roadhouse pre-dates the American Craftsman style, yet contains many of the elements that are found in it.

Santa Monica neighborhoods

Smaller Craftsman era bungalows line the east-west avenues like Idaho, Washington, and California.

Planned on a regular grid, Midtown Santa Monica was once home to a number of picturesque Craftsman houses and brightly painted Victorians, though only occasional examples of these can still be found.

The Craftsman

The Craftsman was a magazine founded by Gustav Stickley in 1901 which carried house designs that created the American Craftsman architectural style.


Bowen Court

The court was designed by Arthur and Alfred Heineman, who planned the court around a Craftsman style courtyard.

James E. Simpson House

The James E. Simpson House is an American Craftsman Style bungalow, and an historic house at 606 Prospect Street in Methuen, Massachusetts.

John A. Hasecoster

Hasecoster designed buildings in many European and American styles, including Second Empire, Romanesque, Gothic revival, and Craftsman.

Lummis House

Lummis House, also known as El Alisal, is a Rustic American Craftsman stone house built by Charles Fletcher Lummis in the late 19th century.

Rimsky-Korsakoffee House

Named after Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the classical music-themed coffeehouse serves coffee and desserts, operating from the former living room of a reportedly haunted 1902 Craftsman-style house.

Samuel Moore House

The Moore House is one of the best examples of the mature American Craftsman style architecture in the University Heights Historic District which combines traditional woodwork, design and craftsmanship while adapting features that were currently fashionable during the period.

Built in 1912 by a well-known Madison carpenter, contractor and architect, Charles E. Marks, the Moore House exemplifies his influence to the American Craftsman style and also, Prairie School design that was emerging in Madison during that time period.

Visalia Heights, Visalia, California

Traveling around the neighborhood, one also discovers that many other styles of architecturally significant homes are to be found here, such as Craftsman, Bungalow, Mission Revival, Art Deco, and Colonial Revival, to name a few.