not sure where to put this one. bungaloid?
not a typical bungalow or a four square, but interesting none the less.

i am taking shots of houses on my street to petition for a plaque or sign for our historic district.

i will put all of them in a flickr slideshow when i am done.

Eclectic. You can see the craftsman influence but also the Colonial Revival with the side gables, roof pitch, and soffit returns. There's even a hint of the Prairie in the windows. (Do you know if they've been replaced?) The forward gable with the catslide and the front porch is just plain bizarre.

Interesting house!

R.

yes, the windows are replaced. unfortunately, the vinyl window and siding people made a fortune in this area.

the rolled eaves and the extended catslide wall give it some character of a cottage on steroids...

Wow, the front of the place is bizarre. The catslide serves no purpose at all, and the way the porch is is strange.

I have seen some small bungalows from Sears, Gordon Van Tine, and a few others with the cat slide, but these are all one story places, and are part of the house desgin. I think under house plans at www.antiquehome.org you can see an example under Liberty homes.

In the example you provided, it think this could be removed from the house without doing any harm. Another thing, where the cat slide is, there are no windows. I imagine there must be some other window or windows hidden under the vinyl siding on the second floor in the front of the house, which were for what ever
reason covered up.The two wings on the porch are strange, like something from the 1950s.There are a lot of bungalows and two story homes from the period around the San Antonio and surrounding area, and none that I have seen have these strange wings.
If I was redoing the house,I would remove the cat slide and remove the vinyl siding and those crazy porch wings. Windows aren't too bad.
Also, I wonder if there are at the local historical society, library or county courthouse photos of this house from the past.
If so, you could get a better idea of how the place looked originally.

Don --

I was looking through one of my catalogs this evening and found an almost deadringer for your steroidal house with the replaced windows. It's in one of the 1920s C.L. Bowes catalogs. Bowes was like Radford inasmuch as both companies designed plans prolifically and published them in various collections for lumber companies and such.

wow... i hope you can scan it and send it to me. i would really like to see it and show it to the owners.

thanks

Is that in New Albany, IN? I swear I've seen that house before. I'm from Louisville, KY and we are currently under contract to purchase a 1929 Bungalow on Elm st in New Albany. I think I saw that house while driving around looking at houses

yes, it is on DePauw Ave, just north of new albany high school. just a few houses from me.
DePauw and surrounding area were designated as a National Historic District last year. getting some recognition.

lots of great bungalows in southern indiana and much more affordable than in louisville.

i keep taking pictures and plan someday to write an article to submit to American Bungalow...maybe when i retire...

Rikki

did you ever get a chance to scan that image from the Bowes catalog? i have looked at the bowes catalogs online and havent found anything similar.


thanks

Don, can you tell me where to find the C.L.Bowes
catalogs online?

I'd really like to see them as while this particular house isn't around by me, others might be.Kind of cool to find out.

here, plus they (lauren) have many other catalogs from the period.


http://www.antiquehomestyle.com/plans/cl-bowes/

Don, sorry it took me so long. I've been working and distracted.

I have three C. L. Bowes plan books from the 1920s plus two editions of the Home Builders Catalogs. Bowes' plan company was a direct competitor of William A. Radford. Between the two companies, which had similar business models, they produced thousands of plans during the 1920s. Their primary market was the middle class. Both created their plans and sold the collections to lumber companies, which offered them to prospective builders anticipating that when the buyer was ready, they'd purchase the plans and materials for their home. Both Radford and Bowes had additional ways to extend their market reach. Radford published American Builder magazine and Bowes the Catalog.

These publications are still relatively common, which leads me to believe that both companies were effective at penetrating their particular markets. I suspect that quite a few buildings used these plans as a point of departure.

Best,
R.

thanks. certainly bears a striking resemblance.

i dont guess there are any marks or other signs that would identify the house as a bowes plan.

i will share this with the home owner, maybe they have some other info.

Let me know if they want to compare floor plans. Because of the page layout, I didn't post it, but will email it to you if they are curious.

R.

Other than some cosmetics (and horrendous siding) this appears to be the same house to me.

That siding does absolutely nothing for it. I'm still a novice at the architecture game (Would you believe 20+ years ago I loved Mission and A & C, but my architecture professors pushed me out?)
But before I even saw the C & L Bowes picture, I was thinking with the unusual design of the porch and butresses, the house needs a different texture such as shake or stucco.

I wonder what it was originally? Even brick would be an improvement!