House plans
In this landscape, the honed stone stair treads bring an element of antiquity to a very modern home. Their rhythmic placement has a meditative quality that makes the act of ascending this hillside path almost ritualistic. The depression in the center of each step gives the garden visitor both sensual and comforting feelings.
This new house adheres to Prairie details faithfully, yet its overall impression is characteristic of hundreds of thousands of similarly shaped houses across North America. Low-pitched, hipped roofs with broad eaves and a long, low elevation integrate the garage comfortably into its design, a trait significant to later-20th-century dwellings. The Prairie period was relatively brief, occurring from 1900 to 1920, but its influence translated into the ranch style, which began in the 1930s and persisted for most of the century.
Notice the massive masonry chimney on this new Richmond, Virginia, design. Prairie chimneys often anchor the exteriors with their size and position. Characteristic of later versions of the style, this house sprawls and hugs the landscape. Large floor-to-ceiling windows and glass doors establish the modern indoor-outdoor relationship.
Less the extensive and beautifully detailed masonry here, this low-slung and rectangular design resembles a common style found across the U.S. While ranch style developed in the 1930s in California from the convergence of Spanish colonial and Craftsman architecture, among others, the Prairie aesthetic contributed to the proliferation of ranch architecture in the form of the broad hip roof like what we see in this example.
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