[3] Members of the Arts and Crafts movement also balked at Victorian eclecticism, which cluttered rooms with mismatched, faux-historic goods to convey a sense of worldliness.

In some ways, it was just as much of a social movement as it was an aesthetic one, emphasizing the plight of the industrial worker and equating moral rectitude with the ability to create beautiful but simple things.

[10] The movement began with the first American Arts and Crafts Exhibition organized by the printer Henry Lewis Johnson in April 1897 at Copley Hall,[11] featuring over 1,000 objects made by designers and craftspeople.

It endeavors to stimulate in workmen an appreciation of the dignity and value of good design; to counteract the popular impatience of Law and Form, and the desire for over-ornamentation and specious originality.

It will insist upon the necessity of sobriety and restraint, of ordered arrangement, of due regard for the relation between the form of an object and its use, and of harmony and fitness in the decoration put upon it.

The Tifal brothers were also notable southern California American Craftsman architects, having designed more than 350 homes in Los Angeles and 100 in Monrovia in the style.

In the early 1900s, developer Herbert J. Hapgood[16] built several Craftsman-style homes, many from stucco, that comprise the lakeside borough of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey.

In Rose Valley, Pennsylvania, architect William Lightfoot Price made significant contributions to the Arts & Crafts Movement through his visionary designs and community planning.

Inspired by the movement’s ideals of craftsmanship and harmony with nature, Price transformed the former mill town into an artistic enclave, designing homes that blended organic materials, handcrafted details, and a commitment to aesthetic simplicity.

The Castle in the Clouds, a mountaintop estate built in the Ossipee Mountains of New Hampshire in 1913–1914 for Thomas Gustave Plant by architect J. Williams Beal, is an example of the American Craftsman style in New England.