Commission, Blackshear, Georgia

Somehow during the design and layout of the book this home was left out.

The A. B. Purdom home is an excellent example of how Stickley’s design process worked when a client commissioned a home. The blueprints below, from the Avery Architectural Library at Columbia University, show the home as conceived by the Craftsman Architects. Purdom returned the plans to Stickley marked in red crayon, and with a photo of a house torn from a newspaper stapled to the blueprint.

The firm then returned drawings incorporating the changes requested.

The house was built, but burned down in the 1960s.