#577 Dr. Whyte;s House with a one car garage.
This kit features heavy Laser cut matboard. Inner wood bracing and wood trim. Cast windows and doors. 5-1/2" x 5-1/4" foot print.
About Bungalow Houses
The Bungalow is an all American housing type, but it has its roots in India. In the province of Bengal, single-family homes were called bangla or bangala. British colonists adapted these one-story thatch-roofed huts to use as summer homes. The space-efficient floor plan of bungalow houses may have also been inspired by army tents and rural English cottages. The idea was to cluster the kitchen, dining area, bedrooms, and bathroom around a central living area.
The first American house to be called a bungalow was designed in 1879 by William Gibbons Preston.
Two California architects, Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene, are often credited with inspiring America to build Bungalows. The Green brothers also published modest Bungalow plans in many magazines and pattern books.
One of the Industrial Age's backlash’s was a yearning desire among many Americans to own their homes and have small gardens. The success of the bungalow was due to its providing a solution to this desire. The essential distinction between the Craftsman "style" and the derivative bungalow is the level of fine detail and workmanship.
When “kit” home manufacturers like Aladdin and Sears began to offer them through their catalogs, their success was assured. Prospective homeowners could have an entire home shipped to their town by train. With the help of a couple carpenters, the homeowner could build a practical, simple, attractive little home for a sum that was manageable by huge numbers of Americans. Mass production, however, meant that the fine carpentry and detailing present in the Craftsman homes were modified and distilled into more generic equivalents. Nevertheless, kit homes were generally built of good quality materials that have held up extremely well over the last century.
Dr. Whyte’s House has the feel of a California Bungalow, shipped to the building site in a railroad boxcar. Your town will come alive with the addition of this home. Put several on each street. This model is styled after a house in Monrovia California.
