Gustav Stickley's Hapke-Geiger House and Noland and Baskervill's Hunton House: Richmond Architecture ca. 1915

Textbooks teach architecture as conveniently divided into styles and periods, but in reality styles overlap. At the turn-of-the-twentieth century there were three major architectural and decorative movements in the United States: the Aesthetic Movement, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the American Renaissance Movement. This thesis shows how superficial stylistic labels can be by comparing two very different-seeming houses of the early twentieth century: The Hapke-Geiger House of ca. 1912 in Chesterfield, Virginia, based on a Gustav Stickley Arts and Crafts design, and the Hunton House of 19 14 in Richmond, Virginia, designed in the American Renaissance style by Noland and Baskervill. These homes are very different from one another, but they have three major similarities: They each use an established plan with no essential connection to the building's supposed style, they mix styles, and they have similar kinds of porches. This thesis will pursue these issues to go beyond the superficial stylistic labels and examine how the three major movements of the time are interrelated.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Art History

Year dc:date.available

2005

Author dc:creator

• Carter, Victoria Katsuko

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Charles Brownell
• Dr. James Farmer

• Aesthetic Movement
• twentieth century
• Virginia
• Richmond
• stylistic label
• American Renaissance Movement
• Arts and Crafts Movement
• Arts and Humanities

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• © The Author

Identifier

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/752

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-1751