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Gingerbread trim on a Victorian-era house in Cape May, New Jersey Gingerbread is an architectural style that consists of elaborately detailed embellishment known as gingerbread trim . [ 1 ] It is more specifically used to describe the detailed decorative work of American designers in the late 1860s and 1870s, [ 2 ] which was associated mostly ...
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.
The balcony's design was based on Cantonese styles. Windows used French styling and were made of wood and glass. The upper floors were supported by brick pillars and protruded out to the edge of the street. [citation needed] Inside, the floors were connected by wooden stairs. Most floors ranged from 450 to 700 square feet with very high ceilings.
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Bronck House, Coxsackie, NY, built 1663; Dutch Colonial. Developed from around 1630 with the arrival of Dutch colonists to New Amsterdam and the Hudson River Valley in what is now New York [9] and in Bergen in what is now New Jersey. [10] [11] Initially the settlers built small, one room cottages with stone walls and steep roofs to allow a ...
Finishes: High-end touches like exotic-stone kitchen countertops, imported floor tiles and custom built-ins can make your home stand out, but they will come at a higher cost.
Solarium with high ceilings a fish pond, and two oil murals painted by a friend of Asa at either end of the room. Only one of these remain. Additional solarium on the far side of the porte cochere built for the wedding of his daughter where the ceremony took place. Seven bedrooms including two masters each with a carved marble fireplace.
The high style is mostly seen in expensive public buildings and the houses of the wealthy, while the vernacular form is more common in typical domestic architecture. The exterior style could be expressed in either wood, brick or stone, though high style examples on the whole prefer stone facades or brick facades with stone details (a brick and ...