Clifford Hutsell and the Storybook Houses of Dallas
Hannah grew up in Dallas surrounded by houses everyone called the Hutsell houses — distinctive, almost fantastical, and impossible to research. Clifford Hutsell has no Wikipedia page, no accessible biography, and no firm that outlived him. So where do his houses actually fit? The answer turns out to be a named movement: Storybook architecture, also called Provincial Revivalism, popularized in 1920s California and documented by Douglas Keister and Arrol Gellner. This episode follows one architect's question from a Lakewood street to a national current — and asks what it means when the record…
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