Tudor House Plans
The Tudor house plan is easily identified by its exterior; diagonally placed heavy dark beams set against light, whitewashed plaster, and a patterned stone or brick chimney. Tudor style home plans draw their inspiration from medieval English half-timbered cottages and manor houses. Tudor home designs are typically one and a half to two stories with second-floor cladding in contrast with cladding on the first floor. Tudor house plans may include tall and narrow multi-paned casement or mullioned windows, rounded doorways, and a projecting bay window cantilevered over the first floor. Most Tudor floor plans offer volume entries, expansive living areas and high ceilings under steeply pitched roofs with gable ends. In the 1920s, when Tudor Revival houses became especially popular, the style was often called "Stockbroker Tudor" because it was favored by individuals in the finance industry.
The Tudor style became popular during the 1920s in developing suburban enclaves around major American cities. Even Frank Lloyd Wright flirted with this period style in one of his early houses in Oak Park near Chicago (the Nathan G. Moore house) though naturally he emphasized geometric aspects thereby making the style his own (http://www.travguides.com/2005/12/frank-lloyd-wright-tours-in-oak-park.html ).
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