HI! I am a newby, and could use your expertise on any information that you can give me about my house. Is it a "craftsman", "sears", "alladin", "wards"...or something else? I have looked though some books, surfed the net, perused this site, but have yet to find a house like it (close, but yet not the same). My husband and I bought this house 4 yrs ago. I grew up two houses away from this house. When the owner, Miss Wolf, passed away, the house was put on the market...I just wanted to see inside. We were the first people to see the house and we put a deposit on it that day! The realtor did not show the house to anyone else - boy, in a small town that did not go over well! HaHA.
Here's the oral history that I know about the house. Rumor has it that Miss Wolf's father built the house around 1905. I have not yet verified the date of construction. Miss Wolf grew up in the house with her sister and parents. Neither of the sisters married and both lived in the house until they passed away. When we moved in, there was not a washer/dryer hookup - in fact, an old wringer washer was what she used! Wow!
The woodwork in this house is fabulous! There are built in buffet/china cabinets in the dining room, built in kitchen cabinets, and built in bench seats in the living room. The kitchen and bath woodwork was painted in the past, as was typical. The bath might have been remodeled decades ago, it has metal tiles (which look like regular ceramic tile) on the walls and ceiling, I have never seen anything like it. Currently, there is carpet on all the floors, excepting the hardwood floors in the closets. I have hopes that when the carpet comes off the hardwood floors are in great shape.
I am attaching an exterior shot of the house. At a later date, I will post interior shots in the "interiors" forum.
Any information or comments would be really appreciated!

Thanks,
Debbie
PS I hope I attach the picture successfully! It is my first time!

Here is a very crude floor plan. I did it with my computers Paint program. Please don't laugh too hard

I can't help you with ID (but the other gurus around here might), but congrats on a nice looking house. It will be great to see the interior pics of all the built-ins and woodwork

It is a traditional one story bungalow with a huge porch. (There is a lot of discussion about whether or not a bungalow could be two stories or must be on one level.)

Don't worry about the bathrooms being white. They were probably always meant to be painted white to save money. Also, bathrooms from that time period were often white with those little hexagon porcelain tile floors and horizontal subway tile (sometimes called running tile).

Also, if you owned a house designed by Gustav Stickely house in Syracuse, NY, the upstairs would probably be painted white. They put their effort and good wood downstairs in the public rooms--foyer, living room and dinning room. And, not all of the wood was oak--some of it was fir stained to look like oak.

It would be interesting to see what the fireplaces look like--you might have some original A & C tiles.

Please post some interior shots when you get them and some of your porch. The windows designs are very classic and in keeping with that style house.

It will be a lot of fun. Enjoy and congratulations.

Bev.

Here's a better picture of the porch

not a kit home expert but i sure do like looking for them. a good place to look for clues is in the attic for grease pencil on the rafters or sheathing. give us exterior pics from all sides and lots of interior shots. kit home or not it is a great place and i would like to see more.