Architecture

1918 · 58553 — Seattle WA: Otis Publishing Co. Jan. 1918. Tall 8vo. 7.5 x 10.5 in. 80 pp. With photo illustrations diagrams floor plans 1 large Supplement folding working plan sized 24 x 36 in. Colour-illustrated softcovers all w/ colour photo of Colonial shake-sided bungalow minor dustsoiling minor shelfwears slight creasing to couple corners very minor offset toning from laid-in folded Plan still a NF copy from the library of Millard Armstrong 1874-1958 longtime Portland Oregon millwright carpenter home builder and later high school teacher and Albany OR dairy farmer. First edition of one of the last issues of this Craftsman bungalow promotional magazine issued by noted Seattle entrepreneur and real estate developer Jud Yoho 1882-1968 known as “The Bungalow Craftsman†in Seattle’s active market prior to World War I. Bungalow Magazine had been originally launched 1908-1912 by Henry Wilson in Los Angeles but Yoho took over the magazine moved the publishing to Seattle and during its 6 year run attracted a nationwide audience. With the slogan of “an illustrated monthly magazine devoted exclusively to artistic bungalow homes†modeled on Gustav Stickley’s Craftsman magazine this glossy periodical featured Seattle bungalows and articles about California residences Eastern Craftsman homes and occasionally lifted articles directly from the Craftsman. The Bungalow Magazine attracted a nationwide audience included feature articles on a variety of Craftsman style homes their technology and mechanical systems and amateur projects in furniture design and construction to enhance the prospective home owner’s bungalow. At the time Yoho and his firms were actively constructing speculative houses in Seattle’s northern neighborhoods served as new advertising for many of the Pacific Northwest’s builders small architects and real estate developers. The innovative inclusion of “Supplement Bungalow Plans†not only presented the potential reader and home owner with a sample home but Yoho and other connected “Craftsman†home builders pioneered a technique of easy home financing and extended home ownership to many who could not otherwise have purchased a home. As the Craftsman bungalow craze waned in Seattle during World War I Yoho divested his interest and began producing his “Colonial Homes†plan books and during the severe post-World War I recession moved to Arkon OH where he opened an architectural and building firm with D.E. Hooker former editor of The Bungalow Magazine. Original individual issues seldom appear in the market and almost never with the original large folding plan supplements. No copies or runs located in Worldcat Seattle Public Lib. houses nearly a complete run. See: Lawrence Kreisman & Glenn Mason The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest 2007 pp. 159-167; Jud Yoho “The Bungalow Craftsman†and the Development of the Seattle Suburbs Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture Vol. 6 1997 pp. 231-243; Erin Doherty Jud Yoho and the Craftsman Bungalow Company: Assessing the Value of the Common House 1997; Jud Yoho & Dennis Andersen Craftmsan Bungalows Edition de Luxe Book Club of Washington 2007. Otis Publishing Co., paperback