Our model plan The Prairie Pond is certainly reminiscent of The Prairie School residential architecture.  The style is uniquely American in its origin, characterized by open plans, horizontal lines, and the use of indigenous materials.  Some of the same features are related to the American Arts and Crafts movement where hand craftsmanship, simplicity, and functionality was promoted as a lifestyle of self-sufficiency.  The style typically includes flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands, integration with the landscape, solid construction, and a disciplined in the use of ornament.

Our four-bedroom house plan has an independent bedroom on the first floor for an aging family member as well as a family gathering room for games and hobbies over the two-garage garage that is reached by a back stair as well as the main hallway of the house.  Our photos show the house built on a lake at the rear of the property with a pastoral setting as seen from the screened porch located just outside the kitchen and accessible from the hall to the first floor bedroom. 

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