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Inside, the chalet-style house is often two stories tall and open concept. The main room almost always has an interior fireplace that helps offset any cold air that may filter in through the ...
Swiss Chalet Revival architecture developed in the United States, emulating the original Swiss chalet style of Switzerland. [1] The style was popular in the U.S. in the early 20th century, approximately coinciding with the Arts and Crafts era. [1] [2] The Bomante House (1905) in Cleveland, Ohio, an example of Swiss Chalet Revival style.
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]
[2] By 1933, Hitler had purchased Haus Wachenfeld with funds he received from the sale of his political manifesto Mein Kampf. The small chalet-style building was refurbished and much expanded by architect Alois Degano during 1935–36 under the supervision of Martin Bormann, when it was renamed The Berghof (English: "Mountain Court"). [3]
The style frequently features buildings heavily ornamented by the elaborate towers, spires, and steeply-pitched roofs of sixteenth century châteaux, themselves influenced by late Gothic and Italian Renaissance architecture. Despite their French ornamentation, as a revival style, buildings in the châteauesque style do not attempt to completely ...
Those still built today have usually been individual custom houses. One exception is a tract of ranch-style houses built on and adjacent to Butte Court in Shafter, California, in 2007/08. These houses borrowed their style cues from the 1950s Western-styled ranch houses, with board and batten siding, dovecotes, large eaves, and extensive porches.
At 50 by 35 feet (15 m × 11 m) and two stories high, it was the largest room in the house. It was Gothic in style, with seven foot high wainscoting , topped with Caen stone walls. One end of the room contained a massive double fireplace with marble caryatids supporting an oak over-mantel by Karl Bitter .
The Bennati House, in Lake Arrowhead, California. Rudolph Schindler's original A-frame design, 1934. An example of an A-frame house in Gillette, Wyoming Traditional A-frame thatched house (palheiro), Santana, Madeira, Portugal An A-frame house owned and restored by Nicky Panicci in the Hollywood Hills, an example of an architectural A-frame.