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Thomas & May Brecheen House, 1907
A unique and important embodiment of Colonial
Revival linearity, curvature, and minimalism
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The Colonial Revival style was introduced just after
the 1876 Centennial by the partnership of McKim,
Mead, and Bigelow, after extensive research of New
England Colonial buildings.
It separated into two types based on two colonial wall
materials: shingle and clapboard.
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Initially,
McKim, Mead,
and Bigelow’s
Shingle
Colonials had
an angular,
cluttered form.
Oakswood, Lenox, MA, 1877–1878
Soon, however, they began to employ planes,
curvature, and minimalism.
Newport Casino,
McKim, Mead & White, 1879–1881
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Travis Van
Buren
House,
Tuxedo
Park, NY,
Bruce Price,
1884–1885
Other architects were inspired to mix a national
architecture with modernizing forms, like the National
Revival architects of Europe
Wayburn House, San Francisco, Ernest Coxhead, 1901
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The most minimalist and planar Colonial Shingle was
Charles McKim’s William G. Low House, Bristol, RI,
1885–1887: essentially one large gable.
Meanwhile, McKim, Mead & White were designing
clapboard Colonials: necessarily less curvy, more linear,
like the Taylor House, Newport, RI, 1885–1886.
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When they showed up in San Luis, they were cluttered,
like William Weeks’s 1902 Crocker House: pediment,
faux balcony, octagon lantern, and many columns.
Whoever designed the Brecheen House in 1907 got
the hang of it:
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porch supported by a single Tuscan column
porch window that precisely repeats the central panel
of the triplet window
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muntined panes half the height of the plates below and
half the width on the side windows
curves where curves are possible, in the bellcast
shingle roof …
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sweeping out to wide closed eaves.
It is our bungaloid prefigurement of Purcell &
Elmslie’s 1911–1912 Bradley House—known as the
Airplane House—Woods Hole, MA:
a Colonial Revival form influenced by Japanese
aesthetic.
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Thomas & May Brecheen House
San Luis Obispo’s embodiment of Colonial Revival
linearity, curvature, and minimalism on a modest scale
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