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  2. Jonesborough Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Corbie steps also appear in Jonesborough Greek revival buildings. Most of the porches on Greek Revival homes appear to have been added long after the buildings were constructed. Jonesborough United Methodist Church: Listed separately as a National Historic Place, the Methodist Church is two stories with a rectangular shape. The foundation and ...

  3. 28 Porch Step Ideas to Dress Up Your House This Fall - AOL

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    Your front steps can transform the whole look of a home. Here our best front porch step ideas for small and wide steps alike with pictures of modern and traditional designs. 28 Porch Step Ideas to ...

  4. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    Building a palisade wall for the fort at Jamestown, Virginia The Golden Plow Tavern in York, PA, is a very unusual American building. It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America.

  5. Look inside the Breakers, a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot ...

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    The Great Hall opened out to a porch overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. A balcony at the Breakers. ... The steps on the grand staircase were designed to be 2 inches shorter than regular stairs. This ...

  6. Dogtrot house - Wikipedia

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    Enclosed shed rooms are also sometimes found at the front, although a shed-roof front porch is the most common form. [1] [3] The breezeway through the center of the house is a unique feature, with rooms of the house opening into the breezeway. The breezeway provided a cooler covered area for sitting.

  7. 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.

  8. Stoop (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Stoop, "a small porch", comes from Dutch stoep [1] (meaning: step/sidewalk, pronounced the same as English "stoop"); the word is now in general use in the Northeastern United States and is probably [original research?] spreading.

  9. Log cabin - Wikipedia

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    Built in 1640, C. A. Nothnagle Log House, located in Swedesboro, New Jersey, is likely the oldest log cabin in the United States. A conjectural replica of the log cabin in which U.S. president Abraham Lincoln was born, now at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Mortonson–Van Leer Log Cabin in New Sweden Park in Swedesboro, New Jersey A replica log cabin at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania A log house ...