Alameda Architectural Preservation Society
Presentation
Sunday, March 19, 2006, 7 PM
First Presbyterian Church
2001 Santa Clara Avenue

Beyond the Bungalow: Grand Homes in the Arts & Crafts Tradition
Presented by Paul Duchscherer



Paul Duchscherer has lived in San Francisco for more than three decades, where he has his own interior-design business specializing in historic period-style projects. He is a 1975 graduate of the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design. Beginning in 1985, he spent the next nine years as Design Service Director of Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers, a pioneer firm in the Victorian Revival movement that included reviving the art of ornamental ceiling design, a specialty at which Duchscherer soon became a nationally known expert. An avid proponent of historic preservation, his knowledge and enthusiasm for design history includes extensive lecturing, writing, and teaching experience. He is also a long-standing member of Artistic License, a professional guild of architects, designers, and craftspeople in the Bay Area. His previous books include The Bungalow: America’s Arts & Crafts home; Inside the Bungalow: America’s Arts & Crafts Interior; Outside the Bungalow: America’s Arts & Crafts Garden, and Victorian Glory in San Francisco and the Bay Area.

Following the topic of Paul Duchscherer’s new book of the same name, this lecture shows that the modest bungalow wasn’t the only early 20th century American housing type to be influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement. In fact, the architectural styles and interior features of many other homes, of all shapes and sizes, also expressed the same design and planning influences that popularly characterized the bungalow. The lecture begins with a brief historic overview of this concept, discussing the phenomenon of so-called “bungaloid” houses, which often appeared alongside their smaller siblings in countless period plan books. Most of these designs were fully two stories (sometimes more). Included among them is the ubiquitous (but largely under-appreciated) “American foursquare”.


The Craftsman style is most often associated with the earliest bungalow designs, but was routinely applied to larger-scaled homes. It was the style most commonly used to express the simple design sensibility and influence of the Arts and Crafts movement in America. Although the popularity of the Craftsman style peaked by the mid-1910s, it was also blended with various other design influences. The resulting related “crossover” styles reflect evolving popular taste throughout the period (c. 1900-1930).


Illustrated by slides of striking representative examples from across the country, this lecture explores the wide range of styles applied to larger-than-bungalow homes built during that same period. While most are simply larger-format (yet still middle-class) dwellings, some are quite grandly scaled, and showcase the surprising extent to which varying degrees of the Arts and Crafts influence found expression throughout America.

In addition to Oriental, Prairie, Shingle, Colonial Revival, Mission and Spanish Colonial Revival styles, Tudor Revival, and English Cottage examples will also be presented and discussed. Among these examples are several homes (including San Diego’s Marston House) also open to the public as house museums.

It is time to think
“Beyond the Bungalow” !

Sunday, March 19 at 7:00 PM

First Presbyterian Church (Corner of Santa Clara Avenue & Chestnut Street)
Parking available behind the church, enter from Santa Clara
Doors open at 6:30 PM
Free for AAPS Membership
$5.00 for Guests