FOR SALE: architect John S. Van Bergen

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Paul Ringstrom
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FOR SALE: architect John S. Van Bergen

Post by Paul Ringstrom »

Former owner of the G. Curtis Yelland House (1910), by Wm. Drummond
peterm
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Post by peterm »

Lovely house. Thanks Paul!

A sure way to make a prairie house look more like a new and suburban knockoff is to add the can lights in the ceiling. Some fads just need to be ignored..
clydethecat
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Post by clydethecat »

Looks like a nice place to live, but with a mix of sympathetic and not so sympathetic modernization.
SDR
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Post by SDR »

Google Street View shows a dead straight street on a flat landscape, with broad verges between curb and sidewalk, amply treed, and rows of pre-War houses in various compatible styles -- an idyllic American suburban landscape ?

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Roderick Grant
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Post by Roderick Grant »

The kitchen is not an unattractive room, but, as Clyde says, a "not so sympathetic modernization." Prairie kitchens were a continuation of the aesthetics of the house. Other than that, there is only the ever-present excessive use of white that should be modified.
Tim
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Post by Tim »

Love the fireplace.
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