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DOI Artikel:Williams, Florence: The southern California bungalow: a local problem in housing
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The Southern California Bungalow
DINING-ROOM
A. J. EDDY’S BUNGALOW, PASADENA, CAL.
verandahs are the hallways and the “patio,” the
centre of the daily life. What could be more de-
lightful than this on a summer moonlight night,
when rich Spanish voices mingle with tinkling
mandolins!
Somewhat similar, but not so primitive in plan,
is the Hollywood bungalow, whose cheery living
room and secluded court are illustrated. The
house was planned for the use of a family of six
little children, whose playground is the court, where
their mother can observe them from any of the ten
rooms of the house.
Mrs. W. Squire’s sug-
gestive little courtyard is
the central room of her
house—a dash of gay sun-
light and verdant colour set
in the shade of the sur-
rounding rooms.
In Cahuenga Pass, close
under the mountains and
overlooking the broad val-
ley, is another of the bunga-
lows illustrated. With its
deep, shady verandahs and
bright banks of begonias
and geraniums, it is as
happy in aspect as a smil-
ing face.
But, of all these bunga-
lows, Mr. Arthur J. Eddy’s,
in Pasadena, is the truest
to tradition. Its white
cement walls have all the
semblance of adobe. The
red tile roof, the wide sunny
courtyard, indeed all its
lines speak of the old time
and the Southland, with
the added charm and com-
fort given by the thoughful
handling of a student and
artist of to-day. For Mr.
Eddy planned and designed
his own house, even to the
details of the furniture and
metal work.
The oldest California
bungalow is not yet six
years of age, but the obvi-
ous fitness of the style to
the land, the climate and
the domestic needs, its easy
unconventionality, its
beauty, without ornament, born of its restrictions
and its usefulness, establish it as a sincere and
original form of cottage architecture. There is
nothing ostentatious, nothing that cries aloud of
wealth, yet the bungalow gives to the man of small
means all the necessities and comforts that a man-
sion-house could give, and to the richer man of
pure and quiet taste a home upon which to lavish
all that his judgment will permit. It thus con-
stitutes the solution of an interesting American
problem in housing, in a manner at once artistic
and democratic.
COURTYARD
A. j. eddy’s bungalow
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DINING-ROOM
A. J. EDDY’S BUNGALOW, PASADENA, CAL.
verandahs are the hallways and the “patio,” the
centre of the daily life. What could be more de-
lightful than this on a summer moonlight night,
when rich Spanish voices mingle with tinkling
mandolins!
Somewhat similar, but not so primitive in plan,
is the Hollywood bungalow, whose cheery living
room and secluded court are illustrated. The
house was planned for the use of a family of six
little children, whose playground is the court, where
their mother can observe them from any of the ten
rooms of the house.
Mrs. W. Squire’s sug-
gestive little courtyard is
the central room of her
house—a dash of gay sun-
light and verdant colour set
in the shade of the sur-
rounding rooms.
In Cahuenga Pass, close
under the mountains and
overlooking the broad val-
ley, is another of the bunga-
lows illustrated. With its
deep, shady verandahs and
bright banks of begonias
and geraniums, it is as
happy in aspect as a smil-
ing face.
But, of all these bunga-
lows, Mr. Arthur J. Eddy’s,
in Pasadena, is the truest
to tradition. Its white
cement walls have all the
semblance of adobe. The
red tile roof, the wide sunny
courtyard, indeed all its
lines speak of the old time
and the Southland, with
the added charm and com-
fort given by the thoughful
handling of a student and
artist of to-day. For Mr.
Eddy planned and designed
his own house, even to the
details of the furniture and
metal work.
The oldest California
bungalow is not yet six
years of age, but the obvi-
ous fitness of the style to
the land, the climate and
the domestic needs, its easy
unconventionality, its
beauty, without ornament, born of its restrictions
and its usefulness, establish it as a sincere and
original form of cottage architecture. There is
nothing ostentatious, nothing that cries aloud of
wealth, yet the bungalow gives to the man of small
means all the necessities and comforts that a man-
sion-house could give, and to the richer man of
pure and quiet taste a home upon which to lavish
all that his judgment will permit. It thus con-
stitutes the solution of an interesting American
problem in housing, in a manner at once artistic
and democratic.
COURTYARD
A. j. eddy’s bungalow
LXXVII