Usonian...
Golden Usonian
1950s Usonian-style home in Golden.
September 30th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Dept. of Human Services
The Department of Human Resources in the Ft. Logan Mental Health Center,
designed 1965 by Usonian architect, Victor Hornbein.
You may know Hornbein best for his buildings at Denver Botanic Gardens, from the
same time period.
There are even folded plate roofs incorporated into the design:
It is known that he did the five buildings for Human Services, but there are other buildings
in the Mental Health Center that look like his work as well.
September 27th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Usonian Bank
Usonian-style eaves travel around this bank from the early 1960s on Midway in Broomfield.
September 23rd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Wallbank House
The Wallbank House in Belcaro, a 1958 Usonian-design by Tician
Papachristou and Daniel Havekost.
As you may have seen in the news, it is about to be torn down to
make room for new construction.
Daniel Havekost is an important Denver architect.
Papachristou is known the world over (and wrote the book on Bauhaus architect
Marcel Breuer).
September 19th, 2010 / 3 Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Ft. Collins
Shannon Stanbro and I went up to Ft. Collins to see their 26th Annual Historic Homes
Tour, which this year focused on the 50s-60s ranch-style Sheely neighborhood.
They respect homeowner privacy by discouraging photography during these type of tours,
but I had to sneak in a photo of the Ware House above, designed by Robert Bullock in
1961. This photo only hints at the charms of this extraordinary concrete, steel & glass home.
Here is one more photo from the Sheely neighborhood in Ft. Collins.
September 16th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Mountain Usonian
Another example of the precious architecture in the mountains of Boulder.
This Usonian-style house was designed by Tician Papachristou in 1959.
September 9th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Boulder mountain home
Another Usonian-style Boulder mountain home, the Dammann House,
designed 1966 by Charles Haertling.
September 8th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Boulder mountain homes
The Usonian-style Labrot House pictured above was designed by Hobart Wagener in 1957.
September 8th, 2010 / 2 Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Usonian church
St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church on Green Mountain in Lakewood.
It is an octagonal church designed in the Usonian-style in 1964.
September 7th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
First Christian Church
As of 2010, this iconic example of Boulder’s original modernist architecture is still standing!
The Usonian First Christian Church on 28th in Boulder was designed 1960 by Thomas
Nixon & Lincoln Jones.
August 31st, 2010 / 3 Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Reed House
One last photo from Arapahoe Acres, this one from today.
The Reed House from 1954, designed by Ed Hawkins and Joseph Dion (I presume)
August 28th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Gable Roofs
Not all Arapahoe Acres homes have flat roofs. The 1954 Reed House by Ed Hawkins and Joseph Dion has two intersecting gable roofs.
August 27th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Shady eaves
The eaves of the Peterson House shade the front of this 1955 home in Arapahoe Acres, Englewood.
August 27th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Pink Rhyolite Wall
The pink rhyolite wall of the Usonian-style Beville House in Arapahoe Acres, Englewood. Home designed 1955 by Ed Hawkins & Joseph Dion.
August 26th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Butterfly Roof
An excellent example of a butterfly roof on the International-style Mass House in Arapahoe
Acres, Englewood. Designed 1951 by Eugene Sternberg.
August 26th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Boettcher Memorial Conservatory
The Usonian Boettcher Memorial Conservatory, designed 1966 by Victor Hornbein
and Ed White Jr.
Based on the principle of the inverted catenary curve!
August 17th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Sampson House
The Usonian-style Sampson House in Boulder, designed 1958 by Tician Papachristou.
The roof line resembles Frank Lloyd Wright’s New York Exhibition Pavillion from 1953.
August 12th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Usonian Stonework
Beautiful stone features in this Usonian home in Arapaho Hills, designed late-1950s/
early-1960s by Mannon Associates.
August 7th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Littleton Usonian
A modernist Usonian home in Arapaho Hills, Littleton, designed by Mannon Associates, late-1950s/early-1960s.
August 7th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Arapaho Hills
Arapaho Hills home from the late-1950s/early-1960s by Mannon Associates.
August 7th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Arapaho Hills Usonian
Beautiful Usonian home from Arapaho Hills, designed (probably) early-1960s by
Mannon Associates.
It includes a great example of a sensitive addition (to the left). Here is an earlier photo
of the same house.
August 7th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Usonian Window
A Usonian window from Children’s Psychiatric Day Care Center in Denver designed
1962 by Victor Hornbein & Ed White.
Sadly, this building is supposed to be torn down soon (if it hasn’t been already).
July 23rd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Ross-Barnum Library
The Ross-Barnum Library, a Usonian design by Victor Hornbein from 1954.
(It has been a little remodeled.)
It is not as well known as Hornbein’s designs for the Ross-Broadway and the Aurora
Public libraries.
July 21st, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Menkick House
The Menkick House near Green Rock in Boulder, designed 1970 by Charles Haertling.
July 20th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Usonian roof feature
This Usonian roof feature with a tree piercing the roofline is from the Spivak House in
Arapahoe Acres in Englewood. Designed 1955 by Ed Hawkins and Joseph Dion
(I presume)
July 16th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
