{"id":2451,"date":"2016-11-21T14:44:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T14:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2017-09-01T23:29:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T23:29:29","slug":"deluxe-telephone-niche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/deluxe-telephone-niche\/","title":{"rendered":"Deluxe Telephone Niche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago (October 2016) I received an inquiry from Karen Henderson, the owner of a 1925 Craftsman Bungalow \u00a0in the Denver area, regarding whether I had ever seen a phone niche with a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fold-down seat and back<\/span>. I assured her I had not, and she was kind enough to share photos of her unique, folding seat assembly recessed\u00a0into a wall \u00a0cavity\u00a0(between two studs), \u00a0creating an almost prototype home phone booth\u00a0(very similar in concept to a built-in ironing board cabinet).<\/p>\n<p>When not in use, the seat and back are concealed behind two hinged, recessed flat wood panels\u00a0below \u00a0a shelf for the telephone. (Photo 1) \u00a0A hinged cabinet above holds a telephone book\u00a0(Photo 2).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2448\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/deluxe-telephone-niche\/hendedrson-niche-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2448\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2448\" class=\"wp-image-2448\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hendedrson-Niche-4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\" Front View (not in use)\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front View (not in use)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2456\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/deluxe-telephone-niche\/hendedrson-niche-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2456\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2456\" class=\"wp-image-2456\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hendedrson-Niche-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Telephone Book Storage\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phone Book Storage<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In use, the seat and back fold down\u00a0and out (Photo 3) , and are held in place by a woven cloth\u00a0tether\u00a0behind the seat back (Photo 4).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2447\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/deluxe-telephone-niche\/hendedrson-niche-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2447\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2447\" class=\"wp-image-2447\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hendedrson-Niche-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Front View (in use) \" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front View (in use)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2446\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/deluxe-telephone-niche\/hendedrson-niche-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2446\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2446\" class=\"wp-image-2446\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hendedrson-Niche-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Side View (in use)\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Side View (in use)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1925, when the bungalow\u00a0with this feature was built,\u00a0a telephone conversation would \u00a0probably still have been a relatively special event not taken for granted like today; \u00a0this is a great example of a creative millwork\u00a0feature which facilitated the act of human communication. Thank you again Karen, for allowing me to share this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago (October 2016) I received an inquiry from Karen Henderson, the owner of a 1925 Craftsman Bungalow \u00a0in the Denver area, regarding whether I had ever seen a phone niche with a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fold-down seat and back<\/span>. I assured her I had not, and she was kind enough to share photos of her unique, folding seat assembly recessed\u00a0into a wall \u00a0cavity\u00a0(between two studs), \u00a0creating an almost prototype home phone booth\u00a0(very similar in concept to a built-in ironing board cabinet).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2867,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}