Abandoned Florida | 1910 American Foursquare Farmhouse | Bonus Farmhands Drone POV

Abandoned Florida history! This video features a historic 1910 American Foursquare style farmhouse dwelling that is a still standing. This architectural treasure in St John's County, is a once upscale house for it's time and location. One of many St Johns historical houses in the area.

This dwelling is a deteriorated example of the American Foursquare style. The two-story wood-frame dwelling has a symmetrical façade, hip roof surfaced with crimped metal panels, a corbelled brick chimney, and boxed eaves with a simple frieze. Fenestration is regular and symmetrical with two-over-two-light double-hung sash windows. A porch extends across the front (north) façade and a collapsed porte cochere is located on the south elevation. Composite asbestos-concrete panels cover the original wood exterior wall fabric. This farmhouse, now in ruins, offers a haunting glimpse into the past.

The American Foursquare, also known as the Prairie Box, is known by a variety of terms including
box house, cube, double cube, and square type American house. It first appeared on the housing
scene around 1890 and remained popular into the 1930s. A post-Victorian style, the American
Foursquare shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered and perfected by Frank
Lloyd Wright.

The Foursquare is typically a two-story or two-and-a-half-story house with a hip roof, dormer,
and symmetrical fenestration provided by double-hung sash windows and the front entrance. On
the front façade, many Foursquares are symmetrical with a center front door and equal groupings
of windows on either side, upstairs and downstairs. Others have an offset front door but with
second floor symmetrical windows. Front porches span the full width of the house, with two,
three or four simple columns supporting the porch roof. Perhaps most notably the foursquare is a
nearly square plan with square shaped interior rooms. The first floor typically has four rooms,
including an entry foyer or reception hall, living room, dining room and kitchen. Upstairs, three
bedrooms and a bath occupy four nearly equal spaces.

Exterior sidings may be brick, plain or sculpted blocks, or stucco, but are usually frame with
clapboards or shingles. Frame Foursquares may have different sidings on the upper and lower
walls. Clapboard is a favored siding material for the first story with shingles on the upper story,
and a belt course delineating the different materials. Dining rooms often feature a bay window to
break up the straight lines of the house. Because of the straightforward lines and simplicity of
design, the American Foursquare was especially popular as a kit home. Sears, Roebuck &
Company offered fifteen different styles of the Foursquare, while the Gordon Van Tine
Company of Iowa had more than twenty styles of Foursquares.

Creative builders often dressed up the basic foursquare form. Although Foursquare houses are
always the same square shape, they can have bay windows, small towers, or gingerbread trim
borrowed from the Queen Anne style; stucco siding and roof parapets popular in the Mission
Revival style; pediments or porticos common on Colonial Revival homes; and exposed roof
rafters, beamed ceilings, built-in cabinetry, and carefully crafted woodwork often used on
Bungalows.

Get an up-close look at the structure’s decay, and discover the history behind this forgotten piece of Florida's rural heritage.

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