enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: how to shingle gambrel roof exterior house styles and designs plans

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Shingle style architecture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingle_style_architecture

    Aside from being a style of design, the style also conveyed a sense of the house as continuous volume. This effect—of the building as an envelope of space, rather than a great mass, was enhanced by the visual tautness of the flat shingled surfaces, the horizontal shape of many shingle style houses, and the emphasis on horizontal continuity ...

  3. The Shingle House (Style Spotlight) - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/2012-07-11-the-shingled-house...

    Like a balloon, the Shingle style exterior was all taut and tensioned to hold the interior space in place. The Shingle style fell out of favor at the turn of the 20th century when the Colonial ...

  4. Dutch Colonial Revival architecture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Colonial_Revival...

    Used for its modern meaning of "gambrel-roofed house", the term does not reflect the fact that housing styles in Dutch-founded communities in New York evolved over time. In the Hudson Valley, for example, the use of brick, or brick and stone is perhaps more characteristic of Dutch Colonial houses than is their use of a gambrel roof.

  5. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Empire_architecture...

    The central feature of the Second Empire architectural style is the mansard roof, a four-sided gambrel roof with a shallow or flat top usually pierced by dormer windows, and usually covered by shingles or stone slate wedges. This roof type originated in 16th century France and was fully developed in the following 17th century by Francois ...

  6. American colonial architecture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_colonial_architecture

    In the countryside of the Hudson Valley, the Dutch farmhouse evolved into a linear-plan home with straight-edged gables moved to the end walls. Around 1720, the distinctive gambrel roof was adopted from the English styles, with the addition of overhangs on the front and rear to protect the mud mortar used in the typically stone walls and ...

  7. List of house styles - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_house_styles

    This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of ... Shingle style. Stick style ...

  1. Ads

    related to: how to shingle gambrel roof exterior house styles and designs plans