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The large beam with a tenon protruding through the post is called an anchor beam. This image is of a barn in the Netherlands, but anchor beams in North America are very similar. (Nutter - 20170459 - RCE) The exterior features a broad gable roof, which, in early Dutch barns extended very low to the ground. The barns feature center doors for ...
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New England barns are usually a type of bank barn, built into the side of a hill giving ground level access to one side, but a ramp or rarely a bridge were used to access the doors. The roof form is typically a gable roof but some New England barns were built with a gambrel roof.
A gablefront house, also known as a gable front house or front gable house, is a vernacular (or "folk") house type in which the gable is facing the street or entrance side of the house. [1] They were built in large numbers throughout the United States primarily between the early 19th century and 1920.
This 1852 Greek Revival Michigan example features the main entrance on the ell or "wing". Upright and Wing, also referred to as Temple and Wing or Gable and Wing, is a residential architectural style found in American vernacular architecture of New England and the Upper Midwest, specifically associated with the American Greek Revival.
Open pediments on windows at the Palazzo Farnese, Rome, by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, begun 1534. A variant is the "segmental" or "arch" pediment, where the normal angular slopes of the cornice are replaced by one in the form of a segment of a circle, in the manner of a depressed arch. [10]
A stone house with a tile roof, set back from the road, and with gable entry facing the road. There are two storeys, and the house contains a doorway with a substantial rectangular lintel, and crude capitals and bases to the imposts. The windows are mullioned with two lights. [61] II: 142–148 Cromford Hill
The upper storey and gable are jettied, the gable is elaborately decorated and has a carved bressumer on corbels carved with heads. The left range has two bays. The central doorway has pilasters, on the left is a splayed bay window, and on the right is a bow window with pilasters and an entablature with a dentilled cornice.