The Rufus Arndt House in

Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin Whitefish Bay is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 14,954 at the 2020 census. History In the early 19th century when the first white settlers arrived, the Whitefish Bay area was controlled by Native A ...

, United States, was built in 1925. It was designed by

Ernest Flagg Ernest Flagg (February 6, 1857 – April 10, 1947) was an American architect in the Beaux-Arts style. He was also an advocate for urban reform and architecture's social responsibility. Early life and education Flagg was born in Brooklyn, New ...

in a style that suggests

Tudor Revival Tudor Revival architecture (also known as mock Tudor in the UK) first manifested itself in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture ...

and

Cotswold Cottage The Cotswold style of architecture is a style based on houses from the Cotswold region of England, and is sometimes called the ''storybook style''. Cotswold houses often have a prominent chimney, often near the front door of the house. Other nota ...

and built by the Arnold F. Meyer & Co. One of the Ernest Flagg Stone Masonry Houses of Milwaukee County, this residence was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 12, 1985. Ernest Flagg was a New York architect known primarily for his grand designs of New York's 47-story

Singer Tower The Singer Building (also known as the Singer Tower) was an office building and early skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City. The headquarters of the Singer Manufacturing Company, it was at the northwestern corner of Liberty Street and Broadw ...

, which was the tallest office building in the world when built in 1908, for buildings at the U.S. Naval Academy, and for the

Corcoran Gallery of Art The Corcoran Gallery of Art was an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, that is now the location of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, a part of the George Washington University. Overview The Corcoran School of the Arts & Design ...

in Washington, D.C. But Flagg was also interested in producing tasteful, inexpensive homes that the middle class could afford. Toward this end, he designed a system of standardized parts and innovative techniques which could be used to build various house configurations. Common elements include walls of natural stone and concrete poured in wooden forms which could be built even by unskilled workers, no basements, concrete floors, steeply sloped roofs to provide storage space, ridge

dormers A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof. A dormer window (also called ''dormer'') is a form of roof window. Dormers are commonly used to increase the usable spac ...

to provide summer ventilation and light, round-capped chimneys, lack of interior halls to save space, thin interior walls of plastered screen to save space, and standardized fixtures. This document should display in Acrobat or the Edge browser, if you have trouble with other viewers. The Arndt house is one of five of these "Flagg system" homes in its neighbourhood.'Preserving our Past'
''Whitefish Bay Now'', 10 Jan 2007, retrieved 26 Feb 2007 With .

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Arndt, Rufus, House Houses in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Houses completed in 1925 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin