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Table Of Contents - Issue 67

On the Cover: The wide-striped white, blue and brown Phase I chiefs blanket is among other historic Navajo, Pueblo and Spanish Mission textiles in the Durango Collection at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College. At the turn of the 20th century these and other Native American craft objects were embraced by the American Arts and Crafts movement and became staples of bungalow interior furnishing.
Photograph by Alexander Vertikoff

BUNGALOW FEATURES

ARTS AND CRAFTS MOMS
Restoring a Prairie Jewel (and Again)
By Tim Counts
Gene and Katy Welch knew restoring
their home would be a challenge. Even doing it twice
didn’t fase this artful couple.

Pasadena Paradise
By Paula Hendrickson
Faced with re-shooting the pilot episode,
the producers of “Numbers moved the
show from a Boston brownstone to a
Pasadena bungalow.

THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
Native American and Hispanic
Weaving: Arts and Crafts as
a Way of life
By Andrew Gulliford
Centuries before Stickley and Hubbard
advocated the artful American life, the
Southwest’s Native Americans were living it.

The Spirit of the Journey
By Katherine Bair Desmond
George and Blitsy Susich, creative spirits
with a passion for adventure. regard themselves
as caretakers of their unique Phoenix home.

BUNGALOW COURTS
Quite Lovely in Its Place:
Gartz Court at 100
By John Luke, With Robert Winter
And Kevin Jon Henry
In as centennial year, a quarter-century
after being relocated to survive, a
bungalow court makes a beautiful case
for presentation.

SHOW US WHAT YOU’VE DONE
Life In All It’s Particulars
By Deborah Russel
Searching for a design form for which
she had no name, she discovered it was
“Craftsman bungalow” and was introduced
to a language for a timeless way of living.

DEPARTMENTS AND CRAFTSMAN RESOURCES
A Letter from the Publisher

Open House: Letters to the Editor
Bungalows, please! Bravo Lummis!
Holy Toledo!

Family Album
From coast to coast, readers share their
pride in their bungalows.

Perspective on Antiques
With David Rudd
Our consultant responds so readers’ questions
on vintage furnishings.

New & Noteworthy
A selection of Arts and Crafts-inspired
amenities for contemporary living.

ARTS & CRAFTS PROFILE
A Quality Proposition
By John Luke
When Mike Reggio founded the Reggio
Register Company in 1978. he made an
absolute commitment to quality that
has endured.

Appetite for America:
How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey
Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire
That Civilized the Wild West
By Stephen Fried
Review By John Luke

American Bungalow News
Now in its 19th year, Craftsman Weekend
expands so new quarters at the Pasadena
Convention Center: Other shows and
bungalow tours on the west coast and around
the country fill out the fall schedule.

Directory of Advertisers

FROM OUR FRIENDS
Nana’s House
By Laura Euler

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Santa Cruz, Calif., Dean Silvers and Ira Schwartz
Starting with a simple 1904 bungalow that had seen its features get lost and confused over the years, we decided that our goal was to clarify our home’s style.We have put in wood floors and added a mix of original and reproduction Arts and Crafts furnishings, along with a collection of international folk art. We also “furnished” many “rooms” in our garden that surrounds our home, with ponds & fountains interspersed between over 1,000 species of plants crowded into our 50 by 100 lot. Our place, which we’ve named “The Trellises,” is an oasis in the midst of busy downtown.
Indianapolis, lnd., Wifliani Guide
This wonderful American Foursquare sits in the historic neighborhood of Irvington, which is on the National Register of Historic Places and is home to hundreds of similar Queen Anne and Arts and Crafts—era structures. Constructed in 1906 as a private residence, the home also served as a fraternity house for Butler University in the 1920s.The exterior is clad in fieldstone and shake. A matching fieldstone fireplace and beautiful wood-beamed ceilings and woodwork make this an incredible home in which to dwell.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Marilyn Bossmann and John McEvoy
Our bungalow was built by the famous Detroit architect Leonard Willeke. We have all of the home’s blueprints in addition to many of Mr. Willeke’s original pencil drawings and letters. The correspondence he maintained with craftsmen and the original owners proves very revealing.
Ferndale, Mich., Keith Binkowski and Kelly Collins
Our home is a 1922 Craftsman bungalow that we and our two children have lived in for two years. Located in an historic section just north of Detroit, the house had fallen on hard times. Slowly though, we have made improvements. Oak hardwood floors abound upstairs and down and most of the original trim was thankfully left untarnished. The living room’s brick fireplace is flanked by built-in oak bookcases and works just fine on cold winter nights.
Pasadena, Calif., Rupert Ouano
What started out in 2002 as a quest for the most affordable Craftsman bungalow in Pasadena ended up as a painstaking but revealing remodel. The remodeling turned out to be the education of a budding historian as he searched for clues to the beginnings of the house and its courtyard complex and the inspiration for its design and structure.
Jacksonville, Fla., Jeff and JoLee Gardner
Our 1916 bungalow is in the Springfield neighborhood, the largest residential National Register district in Florida. It was constructed by a local builder for a French-Canadian immigrant couple who lived here for 33 years. Before we bought it in 2006, it—like the neighborhood. which Southern Living magazine rated as the Number 1 Best Historic Comeback Neighborhood in the South in 2010—had gone through many downturns and upswings. But it has retained its original interior and exterior details.
Brevard, N.C., J.Williamson
We bought our 1935 Arts and Crafts home in 2006 and have since restored it. It has four bedrooms and two baths, a living room with a fireplace, a dining room, and a kitchen and a small den. The house has typical Arts and Crafts molding and hardwood floors. We have enjoyed the complete renovation of this fine house.
San Diego, Calif., Frank and Lauren Becker Downey
We are the proud sixth owners and guardians of the historically design ated Laura A. Tyler House, built in 1913 in what is now Golden Hills, gust up the hill from downtown. We love our side-gabled Craftsman bungalow with its original fir floors, wide front porch. 10-foot ceilings, built-in cabnets, original windows and other fabulous architectural details, including a quirky one: the man who had the house built was a stove maker, and although the house has a chimney, it never had a fireplace.

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