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Like a balloon, the Shingle style exterior was all taut and tensioned to hold the interior space in place. The Shingle style fell out of favor at the turn of the 20th century when the Colonial ...
Architects of the shingle style emulated colonial houses' plain, shingled surfaces as well as their massing, whether in the single exaggerated gable of McKim Mead and White's Low House or in the complex massing of Kragsyde. This impression of the passage of time is enhanced by the use of shingles.
The William Watts Sherman House is a notable house designed by American architect H. H. Richardson, with later interiors by Stanford White. It is a National Historic Landmark , generally acknowledged as one of Richardson's masterpieces and the prototype for what became known as the Shingle Style in American architecture.
The Mary Fiske Stoughton House is a National Historic Landmark house at 90 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Henry Hobson Richardson designed the house in 1882 in what is now called the Shingle Style , with a minimum of ornament and shingles stretching over the building's irregular volumes like a skin.
One gets the sense that the camera is simply observing the women living their lives, totally unprompted, and the house becomes a character in its own right, mirroring the way the women stand out ...
A worker works under 4 William Circle in Rutland as it is raised above its foundation due to the content of pyrrhotite, a mineral that causes foundation crumbling.
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