##VIDEO ID:KtIa2Ute9Go## go ahead and start the work session training and uh tonight we're actually going to go over architectural Styles so this was a training that was supposed to be given to the board a couple of times but it seems that things keep happening um so let's go ahead and jump into it so as I start this training I want to um show you all this book this is kind of the preservationist style Bible it has um really it's the most comprehensive guide that we have for architectural Styles especially residential Styles and I think every preservationist has a copy of this book on their desk and I'm going to pass it over to you so you could just kind of flip through it when you're working with a style guide there's a lot of different hints about what to look at when you're looking at buildings to determine their architectural style and one of the things that we look at is forms so I'm to hand this over to you so a as historic preservation board members one of the things that you're doing is obviously you're looking at historic buildings and in order to make decisions on historic buildings it's really important for you to understand the architectural Styles the time periods and various different things about materials methods Etc and that's why we're going ahead and giving you this training so with with architectural Styles we're always starting with basic shapes that we call form so if you're looking at a building before you even jump into is it a v you know a Victorian ER house is it a queen in is it a Craftsman before you even look at any of that you want to look at the actual form of the building because that's going to give a lot of telltale signs about what potential architectural style it is um so we have a lot of basic forms and especially in communities that are older like St Cloud you're going to see a lot of these forms in the very early buildings um early buildings really excite me quite a bit because if you look at those early buildings those are the foundational buildings of your community that they're the ones that came first but unfortunately in a lot of communities because the those early buildings were so simple sometimes they're looked at as not important some people perceive because they're not as fancy if you will architecturally that they're not as important but as you will see um they're actually very very important because of those uh the roots that they haven't actually founding the community so with folk forms there's a couple of different ones that we're looking at gable front features a Gable facing the street and that usually has asymmetrical facade so I'm going to flip back and forth here so you can see the Gable front all of the examples and the images that I've got for you here are actually all um stcloud buildings with maybe the exception of like four slides in here are not stcloud buildings but I just want you to start looking at these buildings that I have in the slides and seeing their forms so as you can see with with this one this is like a basically rectangular form pretty simple you know you're starting to look at different shapes like you know is it a rectangular is it a square are there triangles which direction are the different elements facing um G to give you some ideas about the different styles but on the Forum we've had got the Gable front we've got the I house the I house is two stories tall um and the I house usually that Gable is side facing so unlike the Gable front house where you see a triangular in the front from your gable roof shape on the ey house those Gables are going to be on the side generally to story we've got uh the hall and parlor layout which let me go ahead and show you here um Gable front and wings so you have a a a kind of pulled forward Gable front and we have pyramidal and I'm going to read a couple of things just so I could stay on track with the information that I I want to give you so on the folk forums what we've got is the early 19th century to the early 20th century and we have to think about what was happening during that time period so the United States was rapidly expanding Westward we had this old a whole whole idea of manifest destiny and that you know there was unlimited resources in this country was the idea and during this time period we also had the Homestead Act of 1862 where many Americans were granted land which they developed into homesteads and often times you know think about it Homestead agrarian we're going to be looking at houses that are very simple in nature not a lot of ornamentation um as I said the eror was marked by Westward Expansion and this idea toward Manifest Destiny it was also shaped by things like uh post Civil War and reconstruction and if you look at the North and South this is the time period where in the north uh we really start shifting toward like Urban Societies in the north and in the South staying with that whole kind of agrarian society so farmsteads and things like that um we also have the influence of the Industrial Revolution during this time period period so now you're having Sawmills so instead of everything being hand built by logs where you know people are cutting the trees down themselves and building houses you're starting to have more industrialization and mechanization in this system which makes it easier to create building materials it makes it faster we also have the expansion and well actually Creation in some areas of the railroads so of course now with the railroads we have more opportunities to bring goods and service to different communities so with the folk forms um the Gable front like I said rectangular shape with the Gable facing the roof these were particularly popular in both rural and urban areas a lot of times you do see them in the urban more urban areas because of the smaller footprint they're not as sprawling and wide um the ey house like I said was two stories tall with a central hallway and anecdotally the name I house actually comes from the fact that a lot of these houses were common in states with I names so Illinois andiana Ohio Iowa sorry not Ohio um symmetrical with rooms on either side of a central hallway and like I said the gabled roof let me see here I'll keep it on this slide for now we've got the pyramidal and the pyramidal was one of those that you're going to see a lot in these Central Florida communities it's a really common style because it was very easy to put that form together just a simple rectangular shape and it was very easy to do the roof framing on that and those are when you see them you know it's a pyramidal house because the roof shape is a pyramid so those are very easily identifiable I'm going to show you one now we're looking at form and I'm talking about all these different forms but within this most of the styles that you're going to see here are are building off a particular form and they're a vernacular style so with vernacular architecture what that means whenever we hear that term is it's regional so your materials are Regional your building practices are Regional what might be vernacular here in Florida for example think about if you went out to Arizona or something their vernacular is going to be totally different they've got different climate different building materials so when we're talking about vernacular in Florida you're going to see a lot of wood frame a lot of simple construction not a lot of ornamentation usually you're going to see the wood siding um I'm going to get to masonry vernacular next and you'll see those forms uh repeating again this is what a lot of these houses I love vernacular architecture because like I said usually this is hearkening to the those original early houses in your community and they're the ones that don't get a lot of a claim because they're not these Queen in and you know very fancy Styles but they really are are running very deep into the development and community and planning and development of the area so going through [Music] these building materials some things that you should think about um wood frame usually going to be on a pure foundation so that's an elevated Foundation allowed for air flow underneath the buildings A lot of times it's going to start with a simple house form that expands over time time sometimes you'll see where a kitchen may have been built detached in the back and over time they filled in the space in between the two a lot of times in the earlier homes the kitchens were detached because there were concerns with fire you didn't want to burn the house down but as time went on those became you know got to be filled in and there's a lot of different things that when you're looking at these buildings that you can actually start identifying time periods as an example if you see windows that are what we call two over two windows so it's two panes in the upper Sash and two in the lower sash you're you're always going to look at that and say you know 1860s through like 19 teens and after 19 you don't see a lot of two over two windows so just by knowing these little elements you can look at a building and actually say you know that's the time period that that was built so the the construction of it is actually going to tell you things about the time period in frame vernacular there's a couple of things I want to touch upon as you're looking at the different architecture and one is the social and economic Trends the political climate the environmental factors and the stylistic trends so with frame vernacular we have the guilded age and the development of railroads helping to spread both materials and people to different communities and of course in Florida we see this big population explosion as settlers move into areas where newly established Transportation routes such as railroads and I just want to point out that cuz I think a lot of people don't realize where the VFW building is that was St Cloud's railroad Depot and people say you know was the railroad deer relocated like I've actually talked to people who think that that's a relocated building it's not a relocated building the railroad actually went through there and so that that's something to just kind of see about that time period how things how things change you know they pick up the railroad tracks the railroad goes away you still have your building it it shows a little bit about the development of the Community uh political climate this was the end of the Civil War and the Reconstruction period so thinking about significant changes are being brought to the Southern States including Florida and the economy is shifting from like this plantation-based agricultural economy to more farming and trade so people are actually owning their own houses and developing these small farms so that's what's going on politically environmental factors of course we've got aot climate that dictated the need for homes to be practical um and have like practical temperature management so you see a lot of high ceilings hot air rises uh double hung sash windows where you can raise the lower sash lower the upper sash that also helps with the air flow in the house and also big wide porches with and overhanging Eaves a lot of that was to provide shade and the porches were areas for people to escape to and get out of the hot house it may have been hot outside but at least you have that air flow um frame vernacular about practicality I already described to you what a vernacular is and I'm going to scroll through a couple more of these images on this one you can see the two over two windows so automatically you're starting to figure out okay what time period it is that brings me to Mason rever vernacular so Mason R vernacular same thing it's a vernacular style so Regional local Craftsmen a lot of these buildings were either the homeowner was building them or they were employing a carpenter but these were not any of the vernacular Styles they're not architect design these are design by the people actually living in them and Mason rever vernacular what we see uh quite a bit during this time period is um cities are growing rapidly now we have more people and more confined spaces in more danger for what what happens a lot during this time period to our wood frame buildings fire fire yeah so so as places start getting more urbanized and more people are coming in and you're having more construction you're having more industry things like bakeries and blacksmiths and things like that there's more of a chance of fire and so almost every Central Florida town city has some story about The Great Fire of that happened in their Town St cloud is no different of course s cloud had a large fire so there's a a switch quite a bit from that those frame vernacular buildings over to masonry vernacular because they are more fire resistant so if you're building something out of wood as opposed to building it out of masonry what's going to be more resistant to fire so you see this big shift toward toward that with the Mason R vernacular I do want to point out that with masonry vernacular there's really kind of two time periods for that style one is going to run from about 1860 to around 1930 a lot of Mason reever vernacular buildings you will see are your commercial buildings while there are many residential buildings you do see a lot of commercial buildings there's also another time period for masonry vernacular that goes from about 1950 to 1975 and these are the post World War II houses where they might be concrete block pretty simple they're not Ranch houses like the footprint of them may be a little bit different than the small sprawling Ranch houses that will get into to later but this was you know these masonry vernacular styles were often a response to a flood of people coming back from World War II and having to provide housing so these Styles went together very quickly with you basic materials and there is differences in the manufacturing process of the masonry one of the things I will um point out here um Everybody of course knows this house but this is an example of that that period That's preor War II going into 1930s and the block on here is called rusticated block so we've got these rusticated block buildings so instead of just making you know just straight concrete block flat they wanted to have a little bit of design to them what makes the restic block so special is a lot of times this block was actually not made somewhere and shipped your community but made in backyard block factories so this building right here was owned by a gentleman who actually had a block Factory in his backyard and so a lot of the rusticated Block in St Cloud actually came locally there were I think three people who were who had businesses doing the rusticated Block in St Cloud so as you're driving around town and you're seeing these different things you you know actually that was sourced locally that that came from local it's pretty cool um let's see and then of course the rtica block the idea was to kind of simulate Stone so give it a little bit more stylistic of a detail these were built for durability if you think about other areas with regional materials like Adobe we don't have Adobe we have too damp of a climate here to have Adobe but that would be a masonry vernacular out west you might see Adobe buildings and like I said the the fire retardant properties of it and and you see a lot of these forms I could go back into the frame vernacular style they look very similar to the frame vernacular style but different exterior cladding and this one is a postor War II one so you can see kind of a little bit like a ranch style but a lot simpler okay colonial revival this one's a a really exciting style that has a very long time period to go from 1880 all the way to 1955 this style is interesting because it's hearkening back to our Colonial roots and and the establishment of the country but there's a couple of things that happen um in society that actually kind of triggers interest in this style again so we have true Colonial is from the colonial time period that's why it's called Colonial then colonial revival is a Revival in interest of that colonial style so during this time period the United States was ing as a global power especially after the Spanish American war in 1898 and during the economic boom of the early 20th century and what we actually saw here was a rise in the middle class we had success in industrialization and what this means is more Americans could afford to build homes that reflected this aspiration for tradition and stability following world Civil War and into the Progressive Era the US was focused on Industrial growth in intern interational influence and we used to have these wonderful expositions that the world would come together focused on architecture and Industry so I'm sure you've heard of the international world's fairs the Eiffel Tower was one such product that was a World's fair the ferris wheel was another product of a World's fair so we used to have these these big you know coming together of all these countries to look at what what was the best in engineering what was the best in architecture of that time and so we have the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 for 100th anniversary and of course they highlighted buildings from our Colonial Colonial time period so that really renewed an interest in that style because these these fairs and expositions were so big that it would be what everybody was talking about in communities and it would also spread through newspapers and pattern books and so people would see these things over and over and they would say like I really like the elements of that style or I love how that house looks and we don't have one of those in our town yet so there starts to be you know this this emerging middle class is like okay we can actually have design Styles now not just the vernacular but actual design Styles colonial revival homes were built primarily in Suburban areas which is funny because if you go downtown you would say well this is in town this is downtown this is not the suburbs but back then it was the suburbs so those were the new areas that were up and coming like in the 19s 1920s those those were your early suburbs so even though it's down town to you now those were suburbs so that's where these homes start being built um they occupied spacious Lots so if you compare a lot of times you know the different architectural Styles like these frame vernacular Styles you can see they're going to be closer into the downtown where the town originated and then kind of growing out from there you'll see the Lots start getting bigger so not just looking at the architecture but actually looking at how the environment grew and just imagine if we started here and we walked to the lakefront doesn't that whole scale start changing like the the scale of it the size of the Lots the setbacks of the buildings from the street everything kind of changes and gets a little bit more spread out so this is kind of the first wave of that happening colonial revival is really one of the most enduring Styles in American architecture it's really popular symmetry is one uh major characteristic of the colonial revival style so when you start looking at these Styles often times you could look and say it's symmetrical it's got a pediment above the door it's got side lights often time there's a like a fan light or a spider web transom above the front door um six panel doors wood the colonial Styles a lot of times are going to have the m multi- pane windows so it would be what we would call for example like an 8 over8 so 8 over8 double hung sash windows and those smaller those smaller Paine sizes that's also interesting just that little detail right there can tell you a little bit about the time period that it was produced in because during the colonial era did we have the ability to make big sheets of glass that we could put in ranch houses no it had to be smaller panes and so that's hearkening to its Colonial Roots where even the windows had to be designed a certain size and way because that's what technology had available for us to at that time so that comes back in the colonial revival style so when you're out there you kind of and again like the S this is an example outside of s cloud like I said I'll have a couple of examples that are not in St Cloud but one of the things that I want to point out is when you're looking at architectural Styles often times in a community you're not going to have that textbook example of a style so as as you get more kind of comfortable with looking at architecture and looking at Styles you'll see that sometimes even even now like doing survey projects I might say something is colonial revival and my counterpart might say it's frame vernacular and neither one of us is actually wrong it's just that that style might sit so on the edge of both that it's hard to make a call either way this one actually here is a really good example this is what we call Dutch colonial revival so whenever you see um the style that has kind of the barn roof almost always when you see that barn style roof you can almost immediately think of colonial revival so a lot of times with these Styles there might be one character defining feature or two character defining features where immediately you could go I know it's XYZ style and then of course when you know the style you know what materials you know there there might be historic building that you're working with the building owner and there's no photographs available of what the building looked like this is why it's important to know the architectural Styles because then you can make some judgments based on the Secretary of the Interior standards of okay we know it's colonial revival so we know likely it had XYZ that would be characteristic to the style so these character defining features are some of the really important things to kind of keep in mind as you're going through each Style um oh another major factor on the colonial revival style which is actually really cool and really important is Colonial Williamsburg so at the time Colonial Williamsburg Williamsburg had been a colonial City basically or I don't know if it was technically a city or a town but it was really in Ruins and there was the Reverend W Godwin and he really wanted to have this Colonial Williamsburg restored and actually be a testament to American history and our settlement and all of that and so it's a project that Rockefeller actually got involved in and pretty much funded this project in the 20s to actually save a lot of the buildings in Colonial Williamsburg and also on a prior training you might remember these terms preservation restoration Rehabilitation or reconstruction so Colonial Williamsburg is a good example of reconstruction where they actually reconstructed buildings that had been l lost because they were trying to tell the story of American history and I don't know who's familiar with Colonial Williamsburg but it's basically what we call a living history museum so when you go to Colonial Williamsburg you actually have people in Period Garb they're speaking in kind of the period dialect and they're you know doing the different trades that you would have that during that time period and the whole thing is to learn about that time period in American history has anybody ever been when I was a kid when you was it boring then or was it interesting not at all I just don't remember it too much okay so run through a couple of these see this this one is a perfect example right here to me to me this is frame vernacular or colonial revival we have a couple of elements that are very colonial revival so this is one where I would have called it frame vernacular but Laur Lee who was the head of the recent survey she classified this as colonial revival and you could see with this colonial revival very common another character defining feature of this is going to be you're going to have a door often that's either like a six panel door or a divided light door but often times you're going to have the side lights in a transome so over here we see the side lights and the the symmetrical grouping that looks like that you know on the left side is is an addition but you've got the Symmetry there which is also big characteristic of colonial revival colonial revival also a lot of times you're going to see um Dormers in that gabled roof so with this example here you see the Dormers and you see shingle work too so that was pretty common especially in the teens and 20s on colonial revival this is an uncommon example of an asymmetrical colonial revival it's a pretty cool one looks like it could have been an earlier style that was modified and you'll find that too A lot of times especially the older the building it might have had modifications and the teens or 20s to modernize it or just because they wanted to go more with a higher defined style another one that's a Dutch colonial revival of course because you could see that uh Dutch Gamel roof Mediterranean Revival that one is one that was very popular in Florida in the 20s all of these Spanish styles were Revival styles think about the areas that Mediterranean Revival and any of the Spanish Revival Styles became popular Florida California Texas those are all places that had Spanish settlement in their history so this is kind of again hearkening back to the past and and how that place developed so we see this a lot in Florida and especially in the 20s when there was a big you know the Florida land boom of course where developers are coming in and buying big swats of land and and building really the first true subdivisions that that we identify kind of similar to the subdivisions of today where they buy massive tracks of land and build a bunch of houses at one time so uh there were a couple of developers in South Florida who really made this style popular and it was you know an idea to attract people living up north to come to Florida and I'm going to read something some notes I have on this style real quick give me one second as I said um Florida and California very popular this is when land speculation and tourism especially was booming and there was a fascination with the these Styles because there was like a romance and a flare to just something kind of European so it was really different than what we've seen up to this point cuz up to this point it's been you know framed vernacular I didn't show you some other styles because they're not as prevalent in St Cloud like the Victorian era Styles like Italian a queen an all of that those all have a certain appearance but this is the first time you're seeing like that really European influence Spanish influence in the Styles character defining features on this can you take a stab at one the roof tiles yeah the roof tiles yes that is definitely a character defining feature almost always duckle walls so Stucker walls in the style that's what you're most commonly going to see um and and there's different variations so there's Mediterranean Revival there's what we call Mission so Mission actually has that kind of Taco Bell type parapet on that um that's hearkening back to Mission architecture in Florida and California so and there's Spanish Revival there's Spanish eclectic so there's different ones but most commonly in St Cloud you see the Mediterranean Revival were those the homes that the there were two women architects that were around around that time period were those were the homes that they were working on so that that wasn't the only style they did but that was one of the styles that they practiced in yes um of course now I'm blanking out on Roberts and Rand and I'm forgetting their first name so I apologize um in St Cloud there was a real development push in this time period to actually differentiate St Cloud from other places and in the marketing literature they came up with their own term which was called the span Flora style and that's something I've actually only seen in St Cloud and I want to just jump back to a comment on something else that I've only seen in St Cloud that I think is very interesting that we worked with an architectural historian and he had an idea about where it came from and that's St Cloud has a lot of buildings that have these columns that have at the base it almost looks like an N are you familiar with what I'm talking about I've not seen that in any other communities and what we believe is We Believe same thing like the local concrete blocks were being made we think those concrete columns were being made and what looks like kind of earn bases this architectural here's an image of one of them this architectural historian actually kind of put the idea out there that we still are trying to follow the thread of that these are actually Canon supposed to simulate like a Canon so you know St Cloud being the soldier City and that whole like military Heritage and all and it makes sense when you look at them because they do look like Canon columns so there's a couple of things in St Cloud with architecture that that's really cool that I haven't seen in other communities like this signature type of column or this reference to their own unique style of span of Florida Flora of course that was just somebody creating a marketing term hoping it would catch on but it's still neat that you have that in your history it's kind of you know unique term okay so back to the Mediterranean Revival am I going too fast for you we're good okay a lot of stepped parapets stucco tile um a lot of times with the Spanish Styles these are romantic Styles they're considered part of the Romantic Styles you will often see little things like niches in the wall or built-in fountains built-in Courtyards in closures that's also very common to see with this style Craftsman seems to be everybody's favorite your house is Craftsman isn't it yeah uh okay so Craftsman is a really awesome style too so this one is prevalent more from 1905 to around 1930 and with the craftsman style what was happening during this time period as I said before is we had a lot of industrialization we had the railroads coming in if things were being mass-produced as a matter of fact with a lot of those simple folk forms that I described earlier people were starting to get this mill work in where they would just apply them to buildings so they'd have a simple folk form building not ornate at all and then they'd apply all these things and sometimes they turn their you know simple frame vernacular building into something like a what we call a folk Victorian or you know you know queenan buildings that how all that ornate W would work on them so that was something that was happening where you could just you know order this through a catalog and it would get shipped to your town and you can apply it to your buildings and so what was happening is there was a movement in in England called the Arts and Crafts movement and it was supposed to be a rejection of the Machine Age it was like you know we've gotten so away from things being handcrafted and we're losing that like people are losing that craftsmanship and skills and so the arts arts and craft movement becomes very popular and I'm sure you've heard some of these names like William Morris and you know just all these handcrafted as the time period you know where Tiffany even Tiffany glass is starting to be mass-produced and people are having a rejection to this so they want to see like vases that are handmade and Woodwork and built-ins they want to see that craftsmanship return so the Arts and Crafts ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement really kind of get traction and they make it over here to the United States so the ironic thing about that is the craftsman style was a mass-produced style that was born from the ideals of arts and crafts movement which is about handmade so it's kind of ironic that these were pretty much mass produced but thing about the craftsman style is you still see that handmade kind of influence the materials you see a lot of like Woods that are not painted but of course by now a lot of people have painted woods but when they were built a lot of unpainted Woods you see a real grounding of these buildings to like here you can see where the masonry is like kind of grounded to the Earth so there's a connection with the Earth in the building where before we see like the pure foundation so you saw that spacing now these are kind of anchored especially with these bad columns and battered bases where they kind of flare out a lot of Stucco but we do see a lot of Woodside and Craftsman so it's kind of both materials there it was very versatile one thing that was also happening during this time period and you can only really see it on some craftsmen but when I point it out I think you'll you'll see it on this one example is there was a lot of interest in Exploration into the Orient so people started becoming really interested in you know these different cultures and all of that and a lot of Craftsmen you will see especially with those brackets that are coming out at the roof line and the exposed rafter Tails sometimes the porches they're open actually wood columns they are hearkening to a pagota so if I took a pagota and I put it next to a Craftsman you would start seeing some of those elements from the pagota architecture so that was a big influence too okay so ideas curbing excess excess of the Industrial Revolution um there was also uh a shift away from mass production which many Saw as dehumanizing especially all these people who were working in these factories to make these things available for putting on homes like I said it was very ironic because it was born out of the Arts and Crafts movement but then became so popular so popular especially in Florida um one very important influence in 1905 was this was an AR Tech design Style by two brothers in California they had a firm green and green green was their last name and they built a landmark example of the craftsman style the first one that we have in this country and that was in Pasadena California in 1905 so if you want to Google that green and Green House you'll see um that house okay and the last one so I think I'm right on time there you could see the pagota influence that character defining features again were usually going to have this prominent front Gable with a very large porch you could see those tapered columns or battered columns masonry at the base a lot of times and then wood materials above and these materials are very natural materials too you see like a lot of unpainted brick a lot of exposed wood um and whenever you see those those peers and those battered columns it's almost always going to be a Craftsman so another character defining feature ranch style this one actually people think that ranch style came after World War II Ranch houses started actually being built in the 1930s mid 1930s so what was happening in society at the time so ranch style exploded in popularity after World War II when returning soldiers needed affordable homes the GI bill made home ownership very affordable and possible for people the other thing that happened during this time period a Suburban development that we know it today really explodes so during World War II Eisenhower what's a what's a general going to be concerned with movement of military and like protecting our country so the lessons of World War II when you come back to this country and you see at the time we had no system of defense that we could mobilize cities and communities it was just like really all these rural roads connected each other we did not have an interstate highway system so this becomes a a real big objective of the federal government to create the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System and so you have highways starting to be built all across the United States and of course when you build highways just like you know whenever you build a new exit off the ramp a subdivision comes in right after that so this was kind of the beginning of all this the other thing was that we learned during the war how to really um mobilize people equipment very quickly and house them quickly so this idea of mass production into housing and I mean real mass production like the subdivisions that we know today really comes comes more into its own than it had been prior to the world um ranch homes are also that that style of architecture that was really calling to the American dream because people you know returning so could go ahead and buy a house because of the GI Bill and it there was that also this idea of you know we want to sprawl like the king of the castle you know sprawling Lots when you look at Ranch houses that is a big difference than we saw from prior architecture where they're really wide so you know they're spawling out on a lot or if you go to the earlier when we were talking about forums and the Gable front form those had a itty bitty footprint on the lot but these spraw very wide so whenever you see something low slung usually usually one story with ranch houses you've got split levels that could be two story but generally one story low pitched roofs you've got a lot of interaction with the outside end so large expanses of glass this is when picture windows become very popular um and the other thing that you see with ranch houses that you had not seen before does anybody want to take a guess at what it is integrated into the actual architecture garages garages so garages and carports so prior to the ranch style we don't really see this prior to the ranch style we've had you know the detached garage usually pushed back on the lot people drove back on the lot the car was not front and center well this is also another status symbol of the American dream not only can we get a home but we can also have a vehicle and maybe even some houses have two vehicles and so that's something that we see a lot with ranch style houses one thing that did want to point out is that um a lot of the ranch houses are masonry so they're usually going to be brick construction I mean you do see wood-sided Ranch houses but a lot of times they are are brick and there's another style that I'm not going over again with you because it's not so prevalent in St Cloud at least in the areas that we're working in is um minimal traditional so sometimes people will confuse a ranch style with a minimal traditional with minimal traditional houses they are very similar but oftentimes they don't have that garage or carport Incorporated in and the ranch style houses usually do have some kind of an eve overhang where the minimal traditional houses there's little to no Eve overhang on those houses both of those Styles really became popular because of federal programs that were actually enabling people to buy houses they were actually uh guaranteed loans and subsidized loans so like I said picture windows connecting the indoors and Outdoors open floor plans so if you get on the interior of any of these houses ranch style was open floor plans which was another thing that before that things were pretty compartmentalized um and you just entire neighborhoods being built at once so it's really interesting because sometimes I know a couple of communities in Florida where you see the subdivision was planned in the 1920s but the Florida land boom went bust so construction halted and then picked up after World War II so sometimes you go into different communities where you're like Spanish Revival Mediterranean Revival Spanish eclectic and you're looking at all this and then all of a sudden it's ranch house ranch house ranch house it's like this is so weird how did this happen well a lot of times that's what happened is the land boom went bust construction stopped those lots were already platted they sat there for you know two decades and then they got built on after World War II I know I went through that pretty fast but we're at 5:48 so I'll leave it open to questions this one here is classified as a ranch or sometimes is called a ranchette this is another one of those examples where if I was classifying this one I probably would have called this minimal traditional so and I just want to point that out to you because I mean this is what I do professionally and lur Le for example this is what she does professionally neither one of us are wrong so when when you're working on style sometimes you do have to recognize that in communities often it's not this classic textbook example sitting there that you're looking at and that's the reason why you have to start really understanding the character defining features and what different elements were common to different styles that will help you to make decisions as you're looking at different cases the awnings when did those come into usually post World War II so prior to World War II we did have awnings but often time they were Fabric and they were retractable okay so you see that a lot on especially on commercial buildings but a lot on residential and I think the style that had probably the most with the awnings residential would be colonial revival okay I feel like I went through that too fast but good any other any questions does anybody have a favorite style Craftsman I know of course you're going to say that you had my uh my parents house up there oh I did at 803 Pennsylvania what style uh the colonial okay was it Colonial is that the Dutch colonial revival no no not the Dutch it was the one where you said it looked like they added a section to it okay yeah um which that was not there see they did add a section did your parents add that yeah my parents no no my parents did not add that okay before your parents beautiful and and this is one like I said it's you know it it's on the edge of two there's the symmetry of the colonial revival you've got the side lights you've got the divided light door the the windows are lining up all that symmetry there but that at the same time with that wraparound porch and some other elements is kind of frame vernacular so this is one where a judgement call yeah and they actually the columns on the inside they actually had columns Colonial looking columns on the inside to to continue the flow of the you know what they were looking for it's beautiful and that sometimes that too sometimes we may make a judgment call on a style and then we get access to the interior and then we're like okay well we have to change this totally because you see those original interior elements we're not getting into Interiors here in this training nor will we get into any of the work the board does because everything you're looking at is exterior but just like those character defining features on the exterior there's character defining features for each style for interiors too so if we were interior designers especially specializing in historic preservation or something you would know that I actually have a she's actually a restoration architect that I know in N Tucket and she can look at a profile of door trim and base and tell you what year that building was from just from like she's like oh yeah that building's 1782 I could tell because it has XY mill work I'm like I don't even know how you ever get there but there's you know a lot of telltale signs so you know just I guess the takeaway that I would want you to have is if you're looking at getting a better understanding of the architectural Styles always I say by the field guide because then you'll really learn a lot but know those character defining features for each style so when you look at the Field Guide you'll see right here all those call outs are telling you different character defining features of the style and if you get those memorized and you get those down most of the time you're going to be right when you're making a classification on style I know we watch um because we're just Geeks we W my husband and I will watch I think it's called House Hunters and so they go to different areas like all over and there'll be a couple and I know they see like probably way more than they show you but they show you like three houses that they're interested in and it's always funny because they'll go through all the different styles and like one person wants a crafts p and one person wants a but you learn as you're watching through all of the different areas in in the United States and what those houses look like and the different characteristics um so I don't know just you can just watch it and just kind of hang out it's like 20 they're like 20 minutes and there's like a million seasons and sometimes they get it so wrong like they'll say this colonial revival I'm like that is so not a colonial revival what are they talking I get enraged but um yeah my husband is the same thing he's an architect he's like that is not a traditional house they do but you can kind of learn some of them and see those different features in different areas and the and what you're talking about as far as the decades you can really see it in the different areas but it it's fun too when you go through a community because you could start seeing how development patterns happen when you're start understanding the architectural Styles and the time periods like I was just explaining to you when you're in the downtown and you're close to the downtown you can see that those are some of the earlier houses and I don't know how many of you know this that when those houses were being built a lot of time PE times people just had tents on the property and they would live in the tent while the house house was being built and that's something that you're early oh we have so many newspaper articles where it's so and so on the corner of whatever whatever building their house was living in a tent for the past six months if you start looking at the St Cloud newspaper articles from 1909 1910 1911 that was what a lot of people did they pitched a tent lived in it while their house was being built and they were right there when I go through the downtown I'm like I bet you there was a tent there or you know you just kind of see the people working hands on it it's just kind of mean now it's like an RV you get an RV yeah exactly yeah the whole thing is you know they're living in a tent and it's not like when houses are being built now they they go up relatively quick yeah back then they were living in a tent yeah oh yeah for a while did anybody know that about the t i i I I did I didn't it's pretty cool I didn't know how common it was but I did pretty common if you look at some of the pictures you'll see some of so Laura Lee Corbett just finished a survey of the next area and um she'll be giving that to staff it's a grant project so it will be done by the end of the month the approvals but she'll be giving it to staff and I'm sure staff will share it with you there's some amazing history about the development of that area she hired a really great researcher and writer this guy is amazing it's like Columbia University PHD and taught at Columbia and the write up that he did for this area which we're referring to as the grid survey area is phenomenal so if any of you are interested in that when it becomes available and Stephanie will share it with you I think you'll really enjoy it there's discussion about the development of Florida Avenue you know is that the over or did they do the overlay then it's a little past is that what they did the downtown area yeah it's above it's above the overlay okay yeah so it's I guess you know the idea is to try to survey Cloud eventually so that was the next area going north but I'm out of time so we're going to take a five minute break um if I can just talk to you ladies off to the side really quick um just real quick about all of C