American Foursquare House

From about 1890 through the 1930s, the most popular house style in the United States was what has become known as the American Foursquare.  It is a cross between the Craftsman and Prairie house styles.  Its popularity coincided with the rise of the American middle class.  The style gets its name by the fact the houses are mostly square with four major rooms per floor.  On the main floor is a kitchen, a dining room, a parlor, and a hall.  On the second floor there are four bedrooms. There is also a room in the attic and a full basement.  This model contains the major architectural elements of the style.  The broken symmetry, the wide covered front porch and stairs, the dormer window for the room in the attic, the bump-out over the side door to accommodate the stair landing leading to the second floor, the bay window in the dining room, and the lattice skirting around the porches.   Many of these houses were ordered as kits, with precut parts, through Catalogs such as Sears and Roebuck. Local builders also built whole neighborhoods in the style in most major American cities. 

Printing concerns:

This model requires the use of two AMS units.  Because of the fine detail, one needs to be vigilant when printing to ensure that there is no lifting and one’s filament is sufficiently dry.  There will likely be light stringing on the front porch rail balusters.   For the windows I have used SUNLU transparent clear PLA.  For the blocks that are at the base of the model, I used Overture's Sedimentary Rock PLA because I think it has a natural rock look to it. But any of the lighter brown matte PLA filaments should work just fine.