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2. Gingerbread (architecture) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Can You Identify the Most Common House Styles? - AOL

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   Italianate House Style. If it’s got ornate trim, a flat or slightly sloped roof abutted by a decorative cornice, and tall, skinny windows, chances are high you’re looking at a Victorian ...

4. List of house styles - Wikipedia

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   This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of houses. African

5. List of architectural styles - Wikipedia

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   Styles often spread to other places, so that the style at its source continues to develop in new ways while other countries follow with their own twist. A style may also spread through colonialism, either by foreign colonies learning from their home country, or by settlers moving to a new land. After a style has gone out of fashion, there are ...

6. The 25 Most Popular Architectural House Styles - AOL

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   Cape Cod. Perhaps the most easily recognizable house style in the U.S., a Cape Cod home exudes symmetry, simplicity and sophistication. With a central door, rectangular shape and classic dormer ...

7. Eastlake movement - Wikipedia

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   The wall cladding in the main house is a horizontal shiplap with vertical lapboard. All of the windows are framed with grooved vertical moulding and other trim work, such as sunbursts above the second story windows. Below the cornice, the house also has a frieze board which includes scrollwork sunbursts and stars.

8. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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   It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America. American historic carpentry is the historic methods with which wooden buildings were built in what is now the United States since European settlement.

9. American Foursquare - Wikipedia

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   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.