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The American Foursquare was a popular mail order style built in large numbers across the United States. The design is space-efficient and most often built on narrow lots making it economical for the middle-class budget. These houses are nearly always square. Four Square (or Box Prairie) houses are considered a subtype or close relative of the Prairie style.
Identifying features include:
- Square box shape
- 2 1/2 stories on a full basement
- Three square rooms and an entrance hall on the first floor and four square rooms on the second floor
- Low hipped or pyramidal roof
- Wide roof overhangs with exposed rafter tails or decorative beams or braces under the gables
- Centered dormer in an unfinished attic with a roof line that mirrors main roof
- Full width porch with wide stairs and low hipped roof; sometimes the porch wraps around the house
- Style features and flourishes from a range of other architectural styles may be applied
- Built on narrow lots
- Some with centered doors with equal groupings of windows on either side
- Those with off-centered doors have upper story symmetrical windows
- Front entrance is a focal point of the exterior
- Entrances with transoms and sidelights
- Most often wood exteriors, but sometimes built of brick, brick or concrete block, or stucco
- Double-hung sash windows may or may not have a patterned upper sash
- Belt course just below second story windows separating the different building materials used for the first and second floors; for instance, concrete blocks below and stucco above
Some locations with references to American Foursquare style homes:
- Academy Hill Historic District, c. , (Historic), Greensburg City, Westmoreland County PA
- Academy Hill Historic District, c. , (Historic), Stroudsburg Boro, Monroe County PA
- Arthur-Leonard Historic District, c. , (Historic), Liberty City, Clay County MO
- Athens Historic District, c. 1786, (Historic), Athens Boro, Bradford County PA
- Ballentine Place Historic District, c. 1909, (Historic), Norfolk City, Independent Cities VA
- Barton Heights, c. , (Historic), Richmond City, Independent Cities VA
- Beaver Historic District, c. , (Historic), Beaver Boro, Beaver County PA
- Boylan Heights, c. , (Historic), Raleigh City, Wake County NC
- Bridgewater Historic District, c. 1818, (Historic), Bridgewater Boro, Beaver County PA
- Broad Avenue Historic District, c. 1910, (Historic), Altoona City, Blair County PA
- Brownsville Northside Historic District, c. , (Historic), Brownsville Boro, Fayette County PA
- Chestnut Hill-Plateau Historic District, c. 1910, (Historic), Richmond City, Independent Cities VA
- Clinton Avenue Historic District, c. , (Historic), Albany City, Albany County NY
- Colonial Place, c. 1903, (Historic), Norfolk City, Independent Cities VA
- Columbia Historic District, c. , (Historic), Columbia Boro, Lancaster County PA
- Dougherty-Prospect Heights Historic District, c. , (Historic), Liberty City, Clay County MO
- East Park Historic District, c. 1908, (Historic), Greenville City, Greenville County SC
- Elmwood Park Historic District, c. 1910, (Historic), Columbia City, Richland County SC
- Ginter Park Terrace, c. 1913, (Historic), Richmond City, Independent Cities VA
- Hanover Historic District, c. , (Historic), Hanover Boro, York County PA
- Highland Park Historic District, c. 1900, (Historic), Lafayette City, Tippecanoe County IN
- Highland Park Plaza, c. , (Historic), Richmond City, Independent Cities VA
- Hilltop Historic District, c. , (Historic), Lafayette City, Tippecanoe County IN
- Hudson Historic District, c. , (Historic), Hudson City, Columbia County NY
- Jewell-Lightburne Historic District, c. , (Historic), Liberty City, Clay County MO
- Lansdowne Park, c. 1890, (Historic), Lansdowne Boro, Delaware County PA
- Lewisburg Historic District, c. , (Historic), Lewisburg Boro, Union County PA
- Llyswen, c. 1894, (Historic), Altoona City, Blair County PA
- Manheim Borough Historic District, c. , (Historic), Manheim Boro, Lancaster County PA
- McConnellsburg Historic District, c. , (Historic), McConnellsburg Boro, Fulton County PA
- Milton Historic District, c. , (Historic), Milton Boro, Northumberland County PA
- Monument Avenue Historic District, c. , (Historic), Richmond City, Independent Cities VA
- Mount Union Historic District, c. , (Historic), Mount Union Boro, Huntingdon County PA
- Newport Historic District, c. , (Historic), Newport Boro, Perry County PA
- North Side Historic District, c. , (Historic), Oil City, Venango County PA
- Northwest York Historic District, c. , (Historic), York City, York County PA
- Oak Park, c. 1952, (Singles), Hatfield Twp, Montgomery County PA
- Patton Historic District, c. , (Historic), Patton Boro, Cambria County PA
- Pettigru Street Historic District, c. 1910, (Historic), Greenville City, Greenville County SC
- Philippi Historic District, c. , (Historic), Philippi City, Barbour County WV
- Pleasureville Historic District, c. , (Historic), Springettsbury Twp, York County PA
- Portage Historic District, c. , (Historic), Portage Boro, Cambria County PA
- Queen Anne Historic District, c. , (Historic), Reading City, Berks County PA
- Ridgway Historic District, c. , (Historic), Ridgway Boro, Elk County PA
- Ripley Historic District, c. , (Historic), Ripley City, Jackson County WV
- Rivermont Historic District, c. , (Historic), Lynchburg City, Independent Cities VA
- Riverview, c. , (Historic), Norfolk City, Independent Cities VA
- Roaring Spring Historic District, c. , (Historic), Roaring Spring Boro, Blair County PA
- Rossman-Prospect Avenue Historic District, c. , (Historic), Hudson City, Columbia County NY
- Rucker Hill Historic District, c. , (Historic), Everett_City, Snohomish County WA
- South Side Historic District, c. , (Historic), Oil City, Venango County PA
- Stoystown Historic District, c. , (Historic), Stoystown Boro, Somerset County PA
- Sugartown Historic District, c. , (Historic), Willistown Twp, Chester County PA
- Tamaqua Historic District, c. 1831, (Historic), Tamaqua Boro, Schuylkill County PA
- Tunkhannock Historic District, c. , (Historic), Tunkhannock Boro, Wyoming County PA
- Warren Historic District, c. , (Historic), Warren City, Warren County PA
- Waverly Historic District, c. 1825, (Historic), Abington Twp, Lackawanna County PA
- Wellsboro Historic District, c. , (Historic), Wellsboro Boro, Tioga County PA
- Winona Historic District, c. , (Historic), Norfolk City, Independent Cities VA
- Wycombe, c. 1895, (Historic), Buckingham Twp, Bucks County PA
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