Regina Cole

1 week ago | finehomebuilding.com | Regina Cole |Abby Cote

“The trouble with this kitchen was that it didn’t go with the rest of the house,” says Suzie Van Cleave, an architect based in Milwaukee. “Because there really was no such thing as an ‘Arts & Crafts kitchen’.” Indeed, most period kitchens were small, segregated, utilitarian spaces without fancy woodwork or decorative finishes. A Mismatched KitchenThe house in greater Milwaukee, a brick and stucco bungalow with pronounced gables and deep eaves, was built in 1913.

Jan 23, 2025 | finehomebuilding.com | Regina Cole |Abby Cote

Every time Blenda Wright walked from her house on 11th Street to the village center in Claremont, California, a particular house captured her attention. “My husband, Andrew, and I are retired, but we’d been in the homebuilding business, in Tucson and then here in southern California,” she explains. Although they were not experts on historic architecture, “I found Claremont to be a special place to live, and I wanted an old house here,” Blenda says.

Jan 21, 2025 | finehomebuilding.com | Regina Cole |Abby Cote

“It was set in the middle of a five and one-half acre lot, looking quirky, vaguely English, and Arts and Crafts-inspired, and I knew I wanted to live here even before stepping foot inside,” Al Messina says.

Nov 6, 2024 | finehomebuilding.com | Regina Cole |Abby Cote

“This is the only George Barber-designed house in Vermont,” says John Dumville about his red-brick, Queen Anne house. Built in 1895, it’s in South Royalton, a village in the center of the Green Mountain State. “Before I bought it, I knew nothing about George Barber.”Dumville is not alone: although Knoxville-based Barber was one of the most successful residential architects of the late 19th century, his fame faded after his death, in 1915.