Models
Foursquare Houses may be built with a variety of materials, including bricks and wood frames. Later models include built-in shelves and other amenities. Large tracts of these homes exist in older urban neighborhoods, particularly streetcar suburbs, but the design was used everywhere.
As with other styles in streetcar suburbs, it was tailored to relatively narrow lots, and was multi-story, allowing more square-footage on a smaller footprint. The American Foursquare style is occasionally revived in new developments, although its appeal is as a "traditional looking" style rather than a fully authentic one, often including modern 2-car attached garages and other features absent in originals, and typically built on larger lots.
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—Jane Wagner (b. 1935)
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—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)