House Styles

Take the family boating or fishing on the lake. Sit on the front porch of your new vacation house and finally enjoy the book you bought six months ago or take in some fresh air, while sleeping in you hammock.

House Styles

Shingle style house

A gambrel roof is gabled with two slopes on each side of a center ridge – a shallow slope above a steeply pitched slope; it is also known as a Dutch roof (E). In a hipped roof, which has no gables, four sloping surfaces form the roof (Figure F). Mansard (also called French) is a hipped roof variation with two slopes, in which the lower slope is steeper than the upper slope (F

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Folk Victorian House

Neighbors are calling this Iowa home a Victorian, but it was built in 1928 -- Too late for the Victorian era! The interior has lovely woodwork, an open stairway, and other nice details.

Victorian house

The Arthur Stiles House, built in 1916 on Main Street in South Windsor, is an example of the American Foursquare style of house. Popular throughout America from the 1890s to the 1930s, these economical cubes with hipped roofs were a reaction to the more complicated and expensive Victorian house styles. This Foursquare was constructed for Mary Holman,

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The old house wanted to fall down but Brooks Banker wouldn't let it. "From the moment I saw this house, I knew it had to be mine," he says of the simple clapboard cottage in Garrison, New York, some 60 miles north of Manhattan. And neither the squirrels running amok in the attic nor the powder post beetles making mulch of the centuries-old oak beams could convince him otherwise.