Modified L-Plan This plan represents a turn-of-the-century elaboration of the vernacular L-plan house type . The massed central section with its steeply pitched , hipped roof distinguishes the type from the simple L-plan house form . Specifically , this house type consists of a massed , central , hipped roof block with projecting secondary gabled wings . Although built in great numbers across the state during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , only a small number of this plan type remain within the city of Arlington . Examples , such as the dwellings at 814 E . Abram Street , 206 W . North Street , and 207 N . Oak Street are typically located within the city ’ s older central neighborhoods . A smaller number , including the dwellings at 7205 Arlington Webb Road and 7200 Silo Street , are located in isolated parcels in the southern or northern edges of town .
One-Story Square-Plan One-story , square-plan houses are another early twentieth-century vernacular form within the city limits . Most of these houses were constructed within the city ’ s older central residential neighborhoods between 1900 and 1930 . These houses are typified by their prominent , high-pitched , hipped or pyramidal roof and nearly square , four-room plan , which often afforded residents greater interior space than the center passage and L-plan forms . The square plan also results in a distinctive boxy appearance . Pyramidal / hippedroof houses of this period usually feature a porch across the house ’ s front facade , often sheltered by an extension of the primary roofline . A particularly notable example of this plan type found within Arlington is the house at 1210 W . Abram Street . The resource , which retains its original 116-pattern wood siding , wood-sash windows , original entry door with sidelights , and an intact wrap-around porch , displays distinct classically inspired exterior decorative features . However , the majority of one-story , square-plan houses documented by the current survey effort display limited decorative ornamentation or elaboration .
Bungalow The bungalow plan type is the most common early twentieth-century domestic form found within Arlington . The “ bungalow ” was used by many writers and designers of the age to describe any small dwelling with infinite variations in form and style , making it a vague and confusing term . As a general building type , bungalows are usually one story in height with low-pitched roofs , broad overhanging eaves , and prominent porches . Bungalow roof forms vary considerably . Front-gabled and cross-gabled examples predominated during the 1910s and 1920s . Side-gabled bungalows became more common in the late 1920s and 1930s . Hipped roofs were also occasionally applied to the bungalow type , particularly in the 1910s and early 1920s . The bungalow house form is often associated with the Craftsman style , as demonstrated by the use of exposed rafter tails , decorative eave brackets , and battered porch columns and piers . However , some bungalows employed Prairie style or even Classical influences , while many later bungalows incorporated various attributes of the Period Revival styles , such as Tudor Revival , Spanish Colonial Revival , and Mission Revival .
Foursquare Another popular house form that was developed contemporaneously with the bungalow plan is the foursquare plan type , also known as the American Four Square . Almost without exception , this distinctive house form has a cube-like massing that is two stories in height and features a low-pitched , hipped roof . Fenestration patterns are typically
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