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The dogtrot, also known as a breezeway house, dog-run, or possum-trot, is a style of house that was common throughout the Southeastern United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries. [1][2] Some theories place its origins in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Some scholars believe the style developed in the post- Revolution frontiers ...
Florida cracker architecture. Florida cracker style house. Florida cracker architecture or Southern plantation style is a style of vernacular architecture typified by a low slung, wood-frame house, with a large porch. It was widespread in the 19th and early 20th century. Some elements of the style are still popular as a source of design themes.
A typical newspaper ad from this period described a brick house for sale as having eleven rooms, two passages, a large kitchen, three servants' rooms, and a washhouse. Sometimes advertisements of this nature made it clear that the servants' rooms were in an outbuilding. In most cases, outbuildings were located behind the main house, on the alley.
Robert D. Magee House is a historic house located near Angie, Washington Parish, Louisiana. Notable for its mid-19th-century construction, the house exemplifies the dogtrot architectural style. Constructed in two stages around 1840 and 1860, this house is a key example of early architecture in the region.
The Seward Plantation is a historic Southern plantation-turned-ranch in Independence, Texas. Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the 20th century. The complex included everything from the main residence down to the pens for livestock. Until the abolition of slavery, such ...
A Young Georgia Couple Restores An 1800s Family Farmhouse To Welcome The Next Generation. Cameron Beall. September 25, 2024 at 7:45 AM. To honor history while making the house their own, they took ...
The plantation house at Roseland Plantation began as a dogtrot house in 1835. [5] A large two-story Greek Revival-style frame addition was added to the front of the dogtrot in the mid-1850s. The former front porch of the dogtrot became a cross-hall and the breezeway of the dogtrot was extended into a very long center-hall in the new construction.
The Martha Poe Dogtrot House, also known as Mayhar Plantation Stage Stop, in Thomas County, Georgia near Metcalf, Georgia, was built c.1850-1876. It is a dog trot house which is believed to have served as a stage stop . It was built with two hewn log pens covered by a single roof, with a breezeway space in between, but the breezeway was later ...