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  2. List of the oldest buildings in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    It is an excellent example of early New England colonial architecture. White–Ellery House: Gloucester: 1710 Affirmed traditional date in survey carried out around 2012. [citation needed] Choate-Caldwell House: Ipswich: 1710 House is on display in Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The oldest rear portion of the house dates to ...

  3. Rafter - Wikipedia

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    Compass rafter: A rafter curved or bowed on the top (the top surface of a rafter is called its "back") or both the top and bottom surfaces. Curb rafter: The upper rafters in a curb (kerb, gambrel, Mansard roof) roof. Hip rafter (angle rafter): The rafter in the corners of a hip roof. The foot of a hip rafter lands on a dragon beam.

  4. Fairbanks House (Dedham, Massachusetts) - Wikipedia

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    A chimney was then built for it; later its roof rafters were raised and reused in a new gambrel roof. The next major change was the expansion of the parlor to the east, under a hip roof, and the addition of the small entry to this expanded space, probably around 1800. A new wing was added to the west side of the house, including two rooms.

  5. Timber roof truss - Wikipedia

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    Two king post trusses linked to support a roof. Key:1: ridge beam, 2: purlins, 3: common rafters. This is an example of a "double roof" with principal rafters and common rafters. A timber roof truss is a structural framework of timbers designed to bridge the space above a room and to provide support for a roof.

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    The Chapman home of Berlin Township, built in 1876, is an excellent example of the Second Empire architectural style. This “Modern Home No. 52” from the 1908 Sears Home catalog cost $1,995.

  7. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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    Satari: A Swedish variant on the monitor roof; a double hip roof with a short vertical wall usually with small windows, popular from the 17th century on formal buildings. [citation needed] (Säteritak in Swedish.) Mansard (French roof): A roof with the pitch divided into a shallow slope above a steeper slope. The steep slope may be curved.

  8. California bungalow - Wikipedia

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    A typical California bungalow, in Berkeley, California. California bungalow is an alternative name for the American Craftsman style of residential architecture, when it was applied to small-to-medium-sized homes rather than the large "ultimate bungalow" houses of designers like Greene and Greene.

  9. Hammerbeam roof - Wikipedia

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    A hammer-beam is a form of timber roof truss, allowing a hammerbeam roof to span greater than the length of any individual piece of timber.In place of a normal tie beam spanning the entire width of the roof, short beams – the hammer beams – are supported by curved braces from the wall, and hammer posts or arch-braces are built on top to support the rafters and typically a collar beam.

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