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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.
Purigraski House (8883 E. D Ave.) Built in about 1895, this is a well-preserved 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story hipped roof American Foursquare house. It is clad with wooden clapboard siding and has three bellcast hipped dormers and a wide hipped roof front porch with stone piers.
Thomas Lee House, East Lyme, Connecticut. A saltbox house is a gable-roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear. It is a traditional New England style of home, originally timber framed, which takes its name from its resemblance to a wooden lidded box in which salt was once kept.
Now you can buy a tiny house off Home Depot’s website. The bestseller is a 444-square-foot, two-bedroom, one-bath cottage priced just over $26,000. A smaller studio unit with one bath goes for ...
A wood-frame American Foursquare house in Minnesota with dormer windows on each side and a large front porch Wegeforth-Wucher house, Burlingame, San Diego. The American Foursquare (also American Four Square or American 4 Square) is an American house vernacular under the Arts and Crafts style popular from the mid-1890s to the late 1930s.
These houses borrowed their style cues from the 1950s Western-styled ranch houses, with board and batten siding, dovecotes, large eaves, and extensive porches. Notably, all houses in this tract were on 1/4-acre lots, and had their front garages turned sideways so that the garage doors were not dominating the front of the house.
Its siding was originally wooden clapboard; between 1978 and 2000, it had aluminum siding, but the wood was restored after this time. A raised porch spans the entire front façade and features paired classic columns and a simple frieze. The large picture window on the ground floor that overlooks the porch was installed in the 1960s. A chimney ...
The structure is wood-framed with weatherboard siding and sits on a poured concrete foundation. The entry is through a front door with stoop, surrounded by a wood cornice and Doric motif pilasters. A small porch is attached to the rear, and a massive, brick-lined stone chimney stands toward the front to one side.