Hello
We just stumbled across this forum. Thank you to the all people that make it work.

My wife and I are new to the Arts and Crafts movment and we have a puzzle to solve. We just bought our first house in New Westminster BC Canada. We where told it was built in 1910 and was designed by a local architect. While doing research we found the design of the house in Henry Wilson's California Bungalows of the Twenties (page 25 plan 374)
We are wondering how a house built in 1910 ended up in a with design of the 20's. Is there a way to find out when Henry Wilson may have first done the design.

Warren

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Henry Wilson

There has been another book of Wilsons plans reproduced by Dover.
The Bungalow Book: Floor Plans and Photos of 112 Houses, 1910

Your mystery house may be in it.

Lauren

You also might want to send the forum a photo of your home so members can take a look at it. One of them may be able to confirm that it's in the 1910 Wilson Book.

There were a fair number of Wilson's houses built up and down the West Coast. I've tried to locate the ones built in Portland, but sadly the ones identified in the book have been victims of "progress".

Rikki

Well,most people may not be aware of it,but,
sometimes architects and even companies borrowed designs from each other.
I have a copy of Radford's Guarented Building Plans.In it is a bungalow designed by Arthur Heinman of California,do doesnot receive creat for the design.I had also seen the same design
in a Harris Brothers house plan catalog I once had.I also noticed a design in Gordon Van Tine
and also in a book of plans called Modern American Homes that's the same.
There is also a design that both Aladdin and Sterling Homes shared.wish I had a scanner or digital camera so I could post these.

There is a big book about Stickley Homes at my local Borders that mentions that Gustav Stickley
tried to sue Jud Yoho for copyright infingement.Yoho used the term Craftsman Bungalows, and Stickley said he started calling his designs Craftsman Homes and Bungalows long before Yoho,and there were also some other sticky points as well.Don't recall what the outcome was.
As I understand it,Jud Yoho bought the rights to Bungalow Magazine from Henry Wilson and published it I think until some time in the twenties.