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2. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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   The steep slope may be curved. An element of the Second Empire architectural style (Mansard style) in the U.S. Neo-Mansard, Faux Mansard, False Mansard, Fake Mansard: Common in the 1960s and 70s in the U.S., these roofs often lack the double slope of the Mansard roof and are often steeply sloped walls with a flat roof. Unlike the Second Empire ...

3. Can You Identify the Most Common House Styles? - AOL

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   Cedar shake roofs and side shingles—left unpainted to better weather salty ocean air—are a hallmark of the nautically minded style, as are, in later iterations, thick white trim around doors ...

4. List of house types - Wikipedia

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   Southern I-House style home. An I-house is a two or three-story house that is one room deep with a double-pen, hall-parlor, central-hall or saddlebag layout. [15] New England I-house: characterized by a central chimney [16] Pennsylvania I-house: characterized by internal gable-end chimneys at the interior of either side of the house [16]

5. List of house styles - Wikipedia

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   This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture ... used in the design of houses. African. Cape Dutch (South ... Catslide roof. Dutch colonial.

6. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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   Over 5,000 relief cottages after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake were built using single-wall construction. Box houses (boxed house, box frame, [16] box and strip, [17] piano box, single-wall, board and batten, and many other names) have minimal framing in the corners and widely spaced in the exterior walls, but like the vertical plank wall ...

7. This Is What the Little Doors in Old Houses Are Really For

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   The odd little doors in old houses all had a purpose at one time, even though we might not use them anymore. ... Style. Tech. 24/7 ... For those of us that live in old houses—from before the ...