foursquare houses
Identification code: 300259226
Hierarchy classification:
- top of the aat hierarchies
- Objects Facet
- Built Environment (hierarchy name)
- Single Built Works (hierarchy name)
- single built works (built environment)
- [single built works by specific type]
- [single built works by function]
- residential structures
- dwellings
- houses
- [houses by form]
- [houses by form: massing or shape]
Alternative term/s
- American Foursquares
- American foursquares
- boxes, Prairie
- cornbelt cubes
- cubes, cornbelt
- four square houses
- four-square houses
- foursquare house
- foursquares, American
- houses, four square
- houses, four-square
- houses, foursquare
- houses, Prairie square
- Prairie Boxes
- Prairie boxes
- Prairie square houses
- pyramids, two-story
- square houses, Prairie
- two-story pyramids
Anotations
Scope note:
Houses generally characterized by a simple, two-story cubical block with a hipped roof, four roughly equal-sized rooms on each floor, and a symmetrical facade; often also having a one-story front porch and one or more dormers; popular in the United States from the 1890s to the early 1930s.
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