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  2. Cape Cod (house) - Wikipedia

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    Cape Cod–style house c. 1920. The Cape Cod house is defined as the classic North American house. In the original design, Cape Cod houses had the following features: symmetry, steep roofs, central chimneys, windows at the door, flat design, one to one-and-a-half stories, narrow stairways, and simple exteriors.

  3. List of house types - Wikipedia

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    Snout house: a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the street. Octagon house: a house of symmetrical octagonal floor plan, popularized briefly during the 19th century by Orson Squire Fowler; Stilt house: is a house built on stilts above a body of water or the ground (usually in swampy areas prone to flooding).

  4. Jedediah Higgins House - Wikipedia

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    It is one of the least altered 19th-century Cape style houses in the Cape Cod National Seashore, and an excellent early example of that style. It is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story post-and-beam house, whose front facade typifies the Cape style: a central doorway flanked by windows on either side. Its interior floor plan is also typical, with two rooms on ...

  5. Why Does Everyone Love a Cape Cod-Style House? - AOL

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    The Cape Cod house has grown in both size and stature, as the U.S. population grew and Americans began flocking to the suburbs in droves. The simple structure of the Cape Cod house has been ...

  6. What Is a Cape Cod–Style House? A Complete Guide to the ...

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    Originating in the 17th century, the Cape Cod–style house is a quintessential American house style. Read on for everything you need to know about these homes.

  7. Cape Cod House (Style Spotlight) - AOL

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  8. Royal Barry Wills - Wikipedia

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    With the motto "no stock plans," Wills designed buildings not only in New England, but from Canada to Florida, including Cape Cods, garrisons, saltboxes, churches, and, in 1941, a 300-unit housing complex for defense workers in Springfield, Massachusetts. [3] Wills was author of eight books on architecture offering designs and advice.

  9. Jack Hall (architect) - Wikipedia

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    Hughes was born on Long Island. He graduated from Princeton University in 1935. Following graduation he worked as a freelance news reporter in Europe. Hall began visiting Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1936, and immediately became fascinated by the landscape – enough to purchase an 180-acre (0.73 km 2) farm compound on Bound Brook Island (no longer an island [1]) in Wellfleet from Katie Dos ...