Car enthusiasts call an unassuming powerhouse automobile a “sleeper,” something akin to the quiet kid in high school who became the most successful person in the class. The Little Cypress is just such a home, a tidy classic Satterwhite two bedroom, one bath design with a long history of high performance.
The name “Little Cypress” itself gives a bit of low key introduction to this plan, named for a small creek just a mile or two north of Satterwhite’s Texas headquarters. Nobody would ever guess from the looks of this stream that it is the first clear boundary between colonial French and Spanish holdings in the New World. The city of Longview, immediately to our south, is mostly in the Sabine River drainage, and the Little Cypress is a tributary of the Red River, and thus marks the westernmost boundary of the Mississippi River drainage. In other words, land purchased by Thomas Jefferson from Napoleon Bonaparte.
The quiet and sleepy Little Cypress floor plan, at 1,260 sq. ft. on a single level, is thus a foundation of the Satterwhite catalog in the same way that the Louisiana Purchase is a central part of the United States.
