Airplane Bungalow
The Airplane Bungalow is a residential style of the United States dating from the early 20th century, with roots in the
General similarities to the California bungalow include low-pitched, gabled roofs with oversized eaves and exposed rafters that create a canopy effect, and bands of windows. In most accounts the special characteristic of "airplane" bungalows is a single room on the second floor, surrounded by windows, said to resemble the cockpit of an airplane, and designed as a sleeping room in summer weather with all-around access to breezes.
One early example is the Pleasance House in
By April 1916 the style had "just reached" El Paso, Texas, with a house, in the 2600 block,[4] on the south side of Montana Street (now Avenue). Newspaper coverage noted the style's popularity in California for several years prior, and that "The room in the top of the roof, which gives the bungalow its name, is designed as a sleeping room."[5]
The house of inventor and industrialist Ferdinand N. Kahler in New Albany, Indiana, built circa 1920, meets that criterion with its second-story sleeping room, even though the straightforward rectilinear design lacks gables and overhangs, and was brick construction, not wood.[6]
See also
References
- ^ "Airplane Bungalow" (PDF). DRAFT PRESERVATION PLAN WORKBOOK. cityplanning.lacity.org. June 12, 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ^ "Los Angeles Department of City Planning RECOMMENDATION REPORT for Pleasance House" (PDF). Los Angeles City Planning Dept. Los Angeles City Planning Dept. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
- ^ Lank, Barry. "The former Echo Park home of a 'sound sculptor' is declared a historic monument". The Eastsider LA. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
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- ^ "NRHP Cedar Bough Place Historic District" (PDF). Floyd County (Indiana) Library. Retrieved 22 July 2020.