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  2. Bannerstone - Wikipedia

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    Archaic period double-notched butterfly bannerstone from Ohio, ca. 2000 BC.Made of banded slate, a material frequently used in bannerstone manufacture.Bannerstones were used in North America for some 3,000 years beginning in the fourth millennium BC. [1]

  3. Case Study Houses - Wikipedia

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    The Stahl House, Case Study House #22. The Case Study Houses were experiments in American residential architecture sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, which commissioned major architects of the day to design and build inexpensive and efficient model homes for the United States residential housing boom caused by the end of World War II and the return of millions of soldiers.

  4. Noren - Wikipedia

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    Noren were originally used to protect a house from wind, dust, and rain, as well as to keep a house warm on cold days and to provide shade on hot summer days. [3] They can also be used for decorative purposes or for dividing a room into two separate spaces.

  5. Dingbat (building) - Wikipedia

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    A dingbat apartment building in Southern California (Santa Monica) A dingbat is a type of apartment building that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, a vernacular variation of shoebox style "stucco boxes". Dingbats are boxy, two or three-story apartment houses with overhangs sheltering street-front ...

  6. List of house styles - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export ... This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design ...

  7. Vernacular architecture - Wikipedia

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    Vernacular architecture is non-high style building, it is those structures not designed by professionals; it is not monumental; it is un-sophisticated; it is mere building; it is, according to the distinguished historian Nikolaus Pevsner, not architecture. Those who take a more positive approach rely on adjectives like ordinary, everyday, and ...

  8. List of architectural styles - Wikipedia

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    Frederick C. Robie House, an example of Prairie School architecture. An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable and historically identifiable. A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character.

  9. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    Building a palisade wall for the fort at Jamestown, Virginia The Golden Plow Tavern in York, PA, is a very unusual American building. It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America.