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2. Middle German house - Wikipedia

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   From the outset the house had two fireplaces. In the living room, the Stube , there was a cocklestove , and in the Flur was a stove for cooking, which was later partitioned off to form a kitchen. Initially, this type of house only had one storey, but from about the 15th century they were usually built in two storeys with a ground floor and ...

3. Low German house - Wikipedia

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   The German name, Fachhallenhaus, is a regional variation of the term Hallenhaus ("hall house", sometimes qualified as the "Low Saxon hall house").In the academic definition of this type of house the word Fach does not refer to the Fachwerk or "timber-framing" of the walls, but to the large Gefach or "bay" between two pairs of the wooden posts (Ständer) supporting the ceiling of the hall and ...

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. Housebarn - Wikipedia

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   A postcard photograph inside a maison landaise Kliese Housebarn in Emmet, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Built ca. 1850 for Friedrich Kliese, an immigrant from Silesia. A housebarn (also house-barn or house barn) is a building that is a combination of a house and a barn under the same roof.

6. 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.

7. 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 ...