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Van Alstyne Homestead is a historic home located at Canajoharie in Montgomery County, New York. It is a long, low rectangular house with a steeply pitched gambrel roof in the Dutch Colonial style. The original fieldstone house was built before 1730 and has three rooms (loft, living area, kitchen cellar) with a garret under the roof.
Dutch Colonial is a style of domestic architecture, primarily characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves along the length of the house. Modern versions built in the early 20th century are more accurately referred to as "Dutch Colonial Revival", a subtype of the Colonial Revival style.
McIntire Garrison House (1707) in York, Maine, a prototype of the garrison style. The overhang in timber framing is called jettying. Olsen-Hesketh House, Blake Road, Brownfield, Maine, a contemporary garrison colonial built 1988–89. A garrison is an architectural style of house, typically two stories with the second story overhanging in the ...
The American Foursquare or "Prairie Box" was a post-Victorian style, which shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright.. During the early 1900s and 1910s, Wright even designed his own variations on the Foursquare, including the Robert M. Lamp House, "A Fireproof House for $5000", and several two-story models for American System-Built Homes.
The house was built about 1902, and represents an early example of the gambrel-roofed triple decker in the city, a style of Colonial Revival architecture that would not become widely deployed until the 1920s. The area was at the time of construction developing as a streetcar suburb, serving a largely middle-class population. Evert Gullberg, the ...
In practice, most Second Empire houses simply followed the same patterns developed by Alexander Jackson Davis and Samuel Sloan, the symmetrical plan, the L-plan, for the Italianate style, adding a mansard roof to the composition. Thus, most Second Empire houses exhibited the same ornamentational and stylistic features as contemporary Italianate ...
Pingree was a four-term mayor of Detroit and Governor of Michigan.) The original small house was built in a whimsical Dutch Colonial style with gambrel roof and flared eaves, designed by William Stratton (who built a similar gambrel-roofed, "low, one-and-a-half story English farm house" the same year a block away for Frederick M. Alger [10 ...
The Coppola House is a historic home located at Guilderland in Albany County, New York. It was built about 1910 and is a three-story frame residence in the Colonial Revival style. It features a gambrel roof with gables and dormers, a Palladian window, and a one-story surrounding porch with porte cochere. [2] [3]