International studio (35.1908)

Colonial Bungalows


COLONIAL BUNGALOW E. E. HOLMAN
PERSPECTIVE VIEW ARCHITECT

COLONIAL STYLE IN BUNGA-
LOWS
BY E. E. HOLMAN
Ti-ie popularity of the bungalow grows. For
the summer, or, indeed, for permanent residence,
nothing elseseems so to charm the fancy of the home-
builder as these low, pleasant, hospitable-looking
houses. The new bungalows do not always follow
the severer lines of the original type of that name,
which, as every one knows, was born and chris-
tened in India. The old-style bungalow was very
plain, very low, and with a piazza running all
around; the modern one is a law unto itself, and
may be in almost any architectural style. Some-
times one-story high, sometimes a story and a half,
it always preserves the essential bungalow features
of plenty of piazza and a general effect of roomi-
ness and “homeyness.” The example shown in
illustration is in reality a low house in the classical
or Greek style, which we moderns call “Colonial,”
simply because our “first settlers” were-so fond of
building in it. It is charming and effective in
design. Its low, gracefuf lines and air of classical
beauty combine so happily with a completeness
of homelike comfort that, as its first owner said,
“Every one, of course, falls in love with it.”
As built in Corsicana, Tex., this house is most
attractive. The exterior is clapboarded and painted
white. The living-room and dining-room are finished
in quartered oak, with a six-foot wainscoting, pan-
eled, oak floors and beamed ceilings. The orna-
mental brick mantel in dark red, the Mission tint in
which the oak is stained, and the looms furnished
in Mission style (though the architect had intended

the house to be finished and furnished in Colonial
style), give a quaint and delightfully cosy interior.
Quartered oak was used throughout the whole
house, and two tiled bathrooms were put in, fur-
nished in the luxurious manner dear to the heart of
the exacting modernist. And—last, but how far
from least, every housekeeper knows—the kitchen
and the pantry arrangements also were very com-
plete.
The same house has since been built at Engle-
wood, N. J., with a strictly simple Colonial interior.
Here all the trim is white, with mahogany doors,
old-style Colonial mantelpieces with open brick fire-
places, oak floors in the main rooms and a gener-
ally complete eighteenth century aspect. One ex-
ception to this must be noted, however: there are
two bathrooms and also a servant’s bathroom—
departures from the “simple life,” made necessary
by the requirements of the twentieth century. A
complete laundry has also been built on, behind
the kitchen. The contract for this house, steam
heated, was $8,650. Each of these houses has two
finished rooms on the second floor, with ample
space for four rooms and a bath.

SUMMER SCHOOLS NOTES
Mr. Alexander Robinson is conduct-
ing his annual sketching class in Holland
until October 1. The headquarters of the
class will be in a quaint fishing village near Amster-
dam, where paintable subjects are plentiful. Daily
excursions are easily made to other villages and mu-
seums containing examples of the old masters and
noted Dutch modern painters. Mr. Robinson also

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