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After giving the house a new concrete foundation, the homeowners chose to retain the natural, original color of the cedar shingles, giving it a pop of deep red (like Backdrop’s Self-Portrait) on ...
The Gray House is an upcoming American historical television drama. Produced by Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman , the ensemble cast is led by Mary-Louise Parker , Amethyst Davis, Daisy Head and Ben Vereen .
His house was criticized by some, but other neighbors began to copy his example. Kardum became a color designer, and he and other artist/colorists such as Tony Canaletich, Bob Buckter, and Jazon Wonders began to transform dozens of gray houses into Painted Ladies.
In 1883, Dr. William Cunningham Gray commissioned architect Charles C. Miller to build the house which would eventually become the present Hills–DeCaro House on two lots along Forest Avenue. [1] Gray was a prominent professional writer and publisher and was the grandfather of famed Prairie School architect, William Gray Purcell .
Thomas Lee House, East Lyme, Connecticut. A saltbox house is a gable-roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear. It is a traditional New England style of home, originally timber framed, which takes its name from its resemblance to a wooden lidded box in which salt was once kept.
The Francis J. Dewes House, in the Baroque Revival style The Ida B. Wells-Barnett House, built in the Romanesque Revival style The King–Nash House, featuring Sullivanesque, Colonial Revival, and Prairie styles. Greystones are a style of residential building most commonly found in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Cape Cod–style house c. 1920. The Cape Cod house is defined as the classic North American house. In the original design, Cape Cod houses had the following features: symmetry, steep roofs, central chimneys, windows at the door, flat design, one to one-and-a-half stories, narrow stairways, and simple exteriors.
The house was entirely re-wired and re-plumbed, the structure upgraded to withstand earthquakes, and discreet ventilation ducts were installed. Every shingle was removed and either restored or replaced, all timbers were stripped and refinished, and nearly all the tail rafters cantilevering beyond the roof line needed to be replaced.