The asymmetrical yet carefully balanced facade of this house contrasts the taller mass of a recessed vertical bay to the left of the entrance with the projecting horizontal mass of an arcaded porch (with a sleeping porch above) to the right. The porch draws on the California Mission style but, unlike the earlier Gehring House, eliminates busy Arts and Crafts detailing for a reductively simple composition of planar arches set on thick columns with red foliated capitals. The architecture seems to look back to the structural expressionism of H.H. Richardson and forward to the modernist abstraction of Irving Gill in California. Set back 40 feet from the street, cubical house (with a hipped roof) is centered on its lot measuring 100 x 147.5 feet.
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