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Title
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Architecture Residential
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Description
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Series of articles about different types of housing styles like Bungalow (Craftsman), Shirtwaist, Tudor, Ranch, and Queen Anne, as well as articles about old houses, researching the history of your house, etc.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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A Good Place to Spend a Pleasant Day, Nature and the Suburban Ideal
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Description
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Article traces the history of the movement from cities to the suburbs. Mentions craftsman bungalows and Prairie-style Foursquare homes. "Both emphasized a connection between the land and the structure, [and] were extremely popular with middle-class families from the 1890s through the 1920s." Discusses developers William Strang, Donald Drummond (who built "flatties"--flat-roofed homes), and J. C. Nichols and landscape architects Hare and Hare. Includes an illustration of the subdivision of Countryside designed for the Hodges Brothers by Hare and Hare.
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Date
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2009
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Orient...in Johnson County?
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Description
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Short article with pictures of the "pink pagoda" home located at 8702 W. 49th Terrace in Merriam, Kansas. It was originally built in 1918 by local Rosedale bank owner and realtor John Sanders. The future of the bright flamingo pink house with curving upward roof eaves is uncertain.
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Date
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2008
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Object Type
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Newsletter Article
