Bungalows of Ipswich

The Eastern Bungalow style was popular between 1910-1940, which included the Depression years. They are an affordable and practical adaptation of California’s Arts and Crafts movement. Full second floors are not a feature of this style, but finished attics are common. The style shares features with traditional well-ventilated folk houses in the warmer U.S. south, with expansive front porches that form a habitable transition between the home and the outside environment. In New England, many of the porches have been enclosed. In post-war America, the bungalow was followed by the single-floor ranch style, with poured concrete floors. In recent years, bungalows have made a comeback in popularity.

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Shown below are houses in Ipswich that are representative of the Bungalow and Arts and Crafts styles.

• Photos are from the accessors database at the Ipswich Patriot Properties site.
• Read more about bungalows at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungalow.
• View Bungalow and Craftsman house plans.

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“Bungal-ode”

by Burges Johnson, Good Housekeeping magazine, February 1909

There’s a jingle in the jungle
‘Neath the juniper and pine,
They are mangling the tangle
Of the underbrush and vine,
And my blood is all a-tingle
At the sound of blow on blow,
As I count each single shingle
On my bosky bungalow

There’s a jingle in the jungle,
I am counting every nail,
And my mind is bungaloaded,
Bungaloping down a trail;
And I dream of every ingle
Where I angle at my ease,
Naught to set my nerves a-jingle
I may bungle all I please.

For I oft get bungalonely
In the mingled human drove,
And I long for bungaloafing
In some bungalotus grove,
In a cooling bung’location
Where no troubling trails intrude,
‘Neath some bungalowly rooftree
In east bungalongitude.

Oh, I think with bungaloathing
Of the strangling social swim,
Where they wrangle after bangles
Or for some new-fangled whim;
And I know by bungalogic
That is all my bungalown
That a little bungalotion
Mendeth every mortal moan!

Oh, a man that’s bungalonging
For the dingle and the loam
Is a very bungalobster
If he dangles on at home.
Catch the bungalocomotive;
If you cannot face the fee,
Why, a bungaloan’ll do it —
You can borrow it from me!