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The modern use of the term is to indicate a broad gambrel roof with flaring eaves that extend over the long sides, resembling a barn in construction. [1] The early houses built by settlers were often a single room, with additions added to either end (or short side) and very often a porch along both long sides.
A Tudorbethan sitting room in the UK. A California tract home living room, with a kitchen behind a permanent space divider, 1960. Louise Rayner, Tudor Style Interior at Haddon Hall, UK, 19th century. Miller House, Mid-century Modern, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57, "Conversation Pit". Japanese minimalist interior living room, 19th century.
The oldest surviving framed house in North America, the Fairbanks House, has an ell with a gambrel roof, but this roof was a later addition. Claims to the origin of the gambrel roof form in North America include: Indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest, the Coast Salish, used gambrel roof form (Suttle & Lane (1990), p. 491). [10]
A mansard roof on the Château de Dampierre, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, great-nephew of François Mansart. A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer windows.
Versailles house in 2014. Built on a constructed hill on 10 acres (4.0 ha) of lakefront property, [4] [11] the residence is expected to include nine kitchens, [2] 14 bedrooms, [12] three indoor pools, two outdoor pools, a video arcade, [4] a ballroom with a capacity of 500 to 1,000 people, [3] a two-story movie theater with a balcony inspired by the Palais Garnier, a 20,000-bottle wine cellar ...
This home, as well as the Benjamin Clark Gilman House which is also owned by the academy, were built for the Gilman family, a group of prominent Exeter donors. The Gilman House is a large colonial white clapboard home with a gambrel roof hipped at one end, a leaded fanlight over the front door and a wide panelled entry hall. [113]
They contributed to the tradition of Collegiate Gothic with U.W.'s Suzzallo Library—T. William Booth and William H. Wilson characterize the second-story reading room as Gould's "most inspired" interior space—before taking a decidedly more modern/Deco turn with Seattle's U.S. Marine Hospital (1930–1932; later, successively, Public Health ...
The stadium includes 2,500 chairbacks, locker room, four indoor batting tunnels, four luxury suites, offices for the baseball program, a weight room, team room and a fully functional press area. [253] Several Liberty Flames baseball players were drafted during the 2015 Major League Baseball draft. Local stations air some games. [254]