What an honest way for a building to say, "I'm a home".

The American Four-Square, may be my favorite style of all time. When you see a block of foursquares, your looking at a block that was developed between the 1890's and the 1930's. It is well known and understood the American Foursquare design was influenced by the popular Craftsman Movement coming out of the British Isles. But, when I look at the homes scale, proportions, wide eve's, hipped roof, horizontal emphasis, and rigorous simplicity, I see Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Style influence. The Prairie and Craftsman styles were developed using a philosophy that believed a home should be honest, simple and well crafted. This thinking was in contrast to the popularity of the Victorian Era styles that took advantage of industrialization and how it was changing the face of small towns across America.