Harriet Phillips Bungalow

The Harriet Phillips Bungalow is a residential building on New York State Route 23B on the western edge of Claverack, New York in the United States. It is a plastered building, which was built in the 1920s post and beam construction.

The house is a clear example of an American Craftsman Bungalow; it is possible that the house was built as a home from the catalog, but not from Sears, but by a company from Iowa to arise, which has offered in a modular system from Sears houses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

Description

The house stands on the east side of Route 23B, just north of Willmon Road on the opposite side. The estate belongs to a small lawn in front of the house. The surrounding neighborhood is used for residential purposes, most of the other houses have been taken during the beginning or middle of the 20th century. There is a garage, their architectural style and material use are similar to the house on the southeast corner of the parcel; it applies so as contributing resource of the entry in the National Register.

The bungalow is a one and a half storey wood frame construction on a foundation of poured concrete. The facade is plastered. The wide overhanging eaves supported by brackets. In sitting the roof, which is covered with asphalt tiles. Large bay windows are located on the front and back of the roof. The other sides of the roof are constructed similarly. A fireplace made ​​of brick rises on the east side. The north side facing the street is provided with a current over the full length porch, whose roof is supported by arches.

Inside, the front entrance, which is located slightly east of the center of the building, a glass door. The entrance leads into the ground floor, which is divided into four large rooms: the entrance hall with staircase, living room, dining room and kitchen. An archway with Tuscan columns leading from the hallway into the living room. Double French doors separate the living room from the dining room, which has a picture window on the west side. On the stairs between ground floor and first floor lets in a stained glass window light.

Much of the interior is original, most of it reflects the Arts and Crafts style of the period in which the house was built. Although features bear witness especially the stained glass windows and the rooms works that are made of Douglas fir wood, especially the ceiling kitchen cabinets, but other styles of architecture of the early 20th century have influenced the interior. The provided with the pillared entrance to the living room has a neoclassical effect and the lathe-turned balusters of the stairs are an element of time already in decay, found Queen Anne styles.

History

Bungalows, ie small houses with wide, gently sloping roofs were first popular in California and then spread to the rest of the United States. The Phillips House illustrates a fundamental characteristic of this design: the porch used treated this space more as part of the interior because as an appendage to the building. Other aspects of the American Craftsman influence here are the far superior eaves and the use of plaster in the cladding of the facade.

It is possible that the house is a " catalog house" or "building block" was, which was composed of selling directly to the builders prefabricated materials. Although these houses are generally associated with Sears, because this company has sold 1908-1940, most of these houses, but there were other manufacturers. The bungalow Philips ' is quite similar to a design which in 1923 was to find in catalog bungalow of Gordon - Van Tine Company of Davenport, Iowa. This had offered complete packages from construction plans and ready-made materials before Sears. Many details and dimensions are identical. The only differences seem to be the lack of a dressing room upstairs and thereby be a bigger bedroom and a different arrangement of the stairs and the bathroom, which allowed a third room upstairs.

The roof was originally verschindelt with cedar. The veranda was closed soon after the completion of this measure, however, was made ​​later reversed. Otherwise, there were no significant changes in the building. It is used since its establishment uninterrupted private residential purposes.

Notes and Documents

42.227222222222 - 73.749444444444Koordinaten: 42 ° 13 ' 38 "N, 73 ° 44' 58 " W

• Residential buildings in New York
• Monument on the National Register of Historic Places (New York)
• Claverack
• Structure made of wood
• Built in the 1920s