| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.1

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The Seattle Bungalow: People and Houses, 1900–1940. By Janet Ore. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xviii + 202 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95, paper.)

Prodigiously researched and beautifully illustrated, The Seattle Bungalow presents architectural history from the bottom up. It unravels not only the decisions of designers, builders, and housing entrepreneurs, but also those who actually lived in such buildings. In Janet Ore's expert hands, the bungalow becomes more than an arts and crafts icon of the simple life. In the Pacific Northwest, it housed both a skilled working class of Northern European immigrants and a middle class of white collar workers caught up in industrial transformation. As modern housing with sanitation, plumbing, and heating systems within, it expressed a pivotal moment when ordinary people could achieve the dream of independence through propriety ownership.

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