Once upon a time, in the 1920s and early 1930s, the Storybook-style architecture fad made some very quirky and rare homes
Once upon a time, in the 1920s and early 1930s, a short-lived architecture fad made some very quirky homesStorybook-style homes are hard to find. There are probably fewer than 10,000 in the U.S., estimates architect Arrol Gellner, who with Douglas Keister wrote the 2001 book, “Storybook Style: America’s Whimsical Homes of the 1920s.”Take for instance the California home of Dain Domich and his wife, Melissa Mattei, which looks like something out of a fairy tale.
The style has its roots in Old Hollywood with Harry Oliver, the art director for the Willat Studio in Culver City. Mr. Oliver built sets for silent films, including, in 1921, a magnificent, crumbling house with no two windows alike. Mr. Gellner and Mr. Keister consider a home to be Storybook style if it has three requirements: it appears medieval to an overblown degree, it was deliberately made to look old, and it exudes a sense of whimsy.
Mr. Keister calls the L.A. home of Chris Parsons and Donald Brown the best example of Storybook-style in the country with its half timbering, sharply pitched rooflines and deliberately crumbling chimney.In a valiant effort to maintain the historic character, the couple recently replaced the cedar-shake shingles on the roof with synthetic replicas to comply with the fire code. “They’ve gone to great pains to keep it authentic,” says Mr. Keister.“The shingles alone cost about $36,000,” says Mr.
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