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2. Shotgun house - Wikipedia

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   A shotgun house is a narrow rectangular domestic residence, usually no more than about 12 feet (3.5 m) wide, with rooms arranged one behind the other and doors at each end of the house. It was the most popular style of house in the Southern United States from the end of the American Civil War (1861–65) through the 1920s.

3. American Foursquare - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Charleston single house - Wikipedia

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   A Charleston single house is a form of house found in Charleston, South Carolina. A single house has its narrow side (often two- or three-bays wide) with a gable end along the street and a longer side (often five-bays) running perpendicular to the street. The house is well-suited to long, narrow lots which were laid out in early Charleston ...

5. George Franklin Barber - Wikipedia

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   George Franklin Barber (July 31, 1854 – February 17, 1915) was an American architect known for the house designs he marketed worldwide through mail-order catalogs. Barber was one of the most successful residential architects of the late Victorian period in the United States, [4] and his plans were used for houses in all 50 U.S. states, and in nations as far away as Japan and the Philippines. [4]

6. List of house types - Wikipedia

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   Snout house: a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the street. Octagon house: a house of symmetrical octagonal floor plan, popularized briefly during the 19th century by Orson Squire Fowler; Stilt house: is a house built on stilts above a body of water or the ground (usually in swampy areas prone to flooding).

7. Hall and parlor house - Wikipedia

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   Floor plan of a basic Virginia-style hall-and-parlor house. An example from the colonial period of the United States, Resurrection Manor, near Hollywood, Maryland, was built c. 1660 and demolished 2002. A hall-and-parlor house is a type of vernacular house found in early-modern to 19th century England, as well as in colonial North America. [1]

8. Haas–Lilienthal House - Wikipedia

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   The house was built in the Victorian Queen Anne - Eastlake style. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Built of redwood , [ 13 ] the building follows the locally popular row-house plan, developed to maximise the use of space in deep, narrow hillside lots.

9. Folk Victorian - Wikipedia

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   Folk Victorian is an architectural style employed for some homes in the United States and Europe between 1870 and 1910, though isolated examples continued to be built well into the 1930s. [1] Folk Victorian homes are relatively plain in their construction but embellished with decorative trim. [2] Folk Victorian is a subset of Victorian ...