900 Goldfloss Street, House, c. 1925

A one-story frame front-gabled Craftsman bungalow that features a hipped-roof porch supported by paired square posts on a stepped balustrade. The house sits on a rusticated concrete block foundation and is clad in vinyl. 1930 CD: C. D. Carroll (W); 1940 CD: Kenneth Davis (W), occupant; 1950 CD: Clara Carroll (W), owner-occupant, a widow. (CD = City Directory)

Bungalow – a small one-story or 1 ½ story house, usually having a low profile and of wood-frame construction . Relatively low in cost and often built to plans taken from a pattern book or even as a kit house.

Craftsman style – low-pitched gabled roof (sometimes hipped) with wide, unenclosed eave overhang; roof rafters often exposed; decorative (false) beams or braces added under gables; porch roof supported by square columns on piers or full height (ground to porch roof) columns of different materials; columns often battered (tapered); often has cottage windows; dormers common (gabled or shed), also with exposed rafters or braces. The dominant small house style from about 1905 through the 1920s. The Greene brothers in southern California popularized this style (1893-1914) of which the Gamble House is considered a prime example. Patterns and kits were widely available.