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8.C. - Page 23 of 54 William Kostura, Historic Resource Evaluation of the Redwood City Woman Club Undoubtedly more houses by Miller still stand, waiting to be discovered. The Craftsman style in Dingee Park The vast majority of the early houses in Dingee Park were designed in the Craftsman style, and nearly all of these were clad with wooden shingles. Although there was a near - uniformity of style in the tract, and some houses did resemble each other, other houses exhibited considerable differences in roofline, porch construction, and details. It was a stylistically harmonious neighborhood that also possessed a lot of creative variety. With their wood shingled surface, these houses were highly textured, imparting a feeling of rustic warmth. It is not surprising that Baldwin and Howell, and later the George H. Irving Company, illustrated many of these houses in their promotional brochures; the realtors obviously considered them to be a selling point for the neighborhood. New buyers during the 1910s followed suit, building more houses in like style. The Craftsman style in California had perhaps three main sources. The earliest was the Arts and Crafts Movement in England. Wikipedia characterizes the movement as one based on "traditional craftsmanship using simple forms, and often medieval, romantic, or folk styles of decoration." Broadly speaking, it promoted high-quality workmanship for architecture and furniture, hand-crafted when possible, in reaction against lower -quality, mass-produced machine -made items. The movement was first named as such in 1887, but the philosophy it was based on had been developing since 1837, when the architect Augustus W. N. Pugin published his book Contrasts. Pugin also suggested furnishings with what could be called Arts and Crafts qualities in 1841 and built his own stone residence in such style in 1843. Pugin was followed by the writer John Ruskin and the writer, artist, printer and craftsman William Morris. From these people's writings a school of architecture emerged, whose best- known practitioners were the British architects Philip Webb, C. F. A. Voysey, Charles R. Ashby, and Edwin Lutyens. Their houses were large, often covered primarily in stucco, and spare in ornament. Visually, they bore little or no resemblance to later Craftsman style houses as built in the United States. In this country, the most important developer of the Craftsman style was a New York state furniture -maker named Gustav Stickley. He began his furniture -making business in 1883 and began incorporating Craftsman style elements in his furniture in 1900. In 1901 he published the first issue of his magazine The Craftsman, which promoted his ideas for furniture, textiles, lighting, metalwork, and architecture. Those ideas were, according to Wikipedia, "simplicity, honesty in construction, and truth in materials," which was close to a re -statement of British Arts and Crafts ideals. Through Stickley's publication, the Craftsman style became extremely popular throughout the United States during the first two decades of the 20th century. 16 547