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The origin of the gambrel roof form in North America is unknown. [8] The oldest known gambrel roof in America was on the second Harvard Hall at Harvard University built in 1677. [9] Possibly the oldest surviving house in the U.S. with a gambrel roof is the c. 1677–78 Peter Tufts House.
The third-floor porch is set in a round-arch recess under the gambrel roof. [2] The house was built c. 1910 by Lars Petterson, a local builder who developed a number of other properties in Worcester. He retained ownership of this house into the 1920s, when he sold it to Fred Gurney, a superintendent at a wire factory.
Used for its modern meaning of "gambrel-roofed house", the term does not reflect the fact that housing styles in Dutch-founded communities in New York evolved over time. In the Hudson Valley, for example, the use of brick, or brick and stone is perhaps more characteristic of Dutch Colonial houses than is their use of a gambrel roof.
HO-163, Tierney Gambrel Roof House, site (Howard's Range), Guilford Road & Clarksville Pike (MD 108), Clarksville; HO-164, Clifton (Wellings Stone House, White Wine and Claret), 6420 Warm Sunshine Path, Clarksville; HO-165, Owings-Myerly House, site (Vogel House), 7538 Guilford Road (MD 32), Simpsonville
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.
The house stands set back from the west side of the road, opposite a gambrel-roofed barn and silo set close to the road. The house is a five-bay gambrel-roofed wood frame structure, with two interior chimneys and clapboard siding. The front and rear roof faces have three-bay shed-roof dormers extending from the steep portion of the roof.
It is thought to have been built between 1677 and 1678. Past historians considered it to be the oldest brick house in the United States, although that distinction belongs to Bacon's Castle, the 1665 plantation home of Virginian Arthur Allen. [2] [3] It is also believed to be, possibly, the oldest surviving house in the U.S. with a gambrel roof.
This effect—of the building as an envelope of space, rather than a great mass, was enhanced by the visual tautness of the flat shingled surfaces, the horizontal shape of many shingle style houses, and the emphasis on horizontal continuity, both in exterior details and in the flow of spaces within the houses.