This lovely home is an excellent example of a house style known as the American Foursquare or Prairie Box, a post Victorian style that shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright. The boxy foursquare shape provided roomy interiors for homes on small city lots. The simple square shape also made the Foursquare style especially practical for mail order house kits from Sears and other catalog companies.

Foursquare houses, such as this home, typically are two-and-a-half stories high and have a four-room floor plan, low-hipped roofs with wide overhangs, a large central dormer and a full-width porch. Creative builders often dressed up the basic foursquare form and therefore, while these houses are always the same square shape, they can have features borrowed from any number of styles. This house borrows classical colonettes to support the front porch from the Colonial Revival style.