Missing, perhaps, from the time the house was built, the should-have-been shingled Foursquare porch now completes the home.

Built 2005–6 in Marietta, Georgia, the owner was instrumental in the design of a new brick house that evokes the bungalow era.

A sustainable Arts & Crafts Foursquare: a Maryland company finds inspiration for its high-quality, energy-efficient homes in the building traditions of the bungalow era.

The epitome of the post-Victorian “comfortable house,” the Foursquare is about dignified self-containment.