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A section view of a type of wood shingle. Wood shingles Fiber cement siding and shake shingles under the gable roof. Wood shingles are thin, tapered pieces of wood primarily used to cover roofs and walls of buildings to protect them from the weather. Historically shingles, also known as shakes, were split from straight grained, knot free bolts ...
CertainTeed operates 65 manufacturing plants in the United States and Canada. [2] Certainteed manufactures products for four industries : Roofing, Siding, Insulation, Gypsum and Ceilings. [3] It exports building products to more than 50 countries. CertainTeed has held more than 350 patents on its products in the past 30 years.
The Pitcher-Goff House (formerly known as The Grand Manor), is an historic house at 58 Walcott Street in the Quality Hill neighborhood of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The house is architecturally eclectic, with a largely Italianate exterior, and a Late Victorian interior. The house was built for Elias B. Pitcher, a cotton textile manufacturer, in 1840.
The manor homes and city seats were designed by prominent architects of the day and decorated with antiquities, furniture, and works of art from the world over. Many of the wealthy had undertaken grand tours of Europe, during which they admired the estates of the nobility. Seeing themselves as their American equivalent, they wished to emulate ...
Grey Towers National Historic Site, also known as Gifford Pinchot House or The Pinchot Institute, is located just off US 6 west of Milford, Pennsylvania, in Milford Township. It is the ancestral summer home of Gifford Pinchot , first chief of the newly developed United States Forest Service (USFS) and twice elected governor of Pennsylvania .
Greyledge is a historic home and national historic district in Botetourt County, Virginia.It encompasses 13 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures, as well as woods and cropland.
The formal living room is a vast white-on-white space with three separate seating areas, an open marble fireplace and a grand piano. [14] The second living room is less formal and is decorated in a cool grey palette. The original bookcases have been swapped for two aquariums and a bar. It has twin French doors. [14]
Ufford Hall is a Grade II* listed manor house in Fressingfield, Suffolk, England, dating back to the thirteenth century. Fressingfield is 12 miles east of Diss , Norfolk. The timber-framed manor house with rosy ochre coloured plaster walls and dark tiled roof, [ 38 ] incorporates the medieval core of an earlier open-hall house.