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Dutch Colonial is a style of domestic architecture, primarily characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves along the length of the house. Modern versions built in the early 20th century are more accurately referred to as "Dutch Colonial Revival", a subtype of the Colonial Revival style.
Complete architectural plan for a Gothic-arch barn by the US Department of Agriculture. Rafters were first constructed by laminating together, by nailing, two or more pieces of 1x8 inch lumber with overlapping end joints and then cutting the desired radius. Before power tools were commonly available, this method was labor-intensive.
Possibly the oldest surviving house in the U.S. with a gambrel roof is the c. 1677–78 Peter Tufts House. The oldest surviving framed house in North America, the Fairbanks House, has an ell with a gambrel roof, but this roof was a later addition. Claims to the origin of the gambrel roof form in North America include:
The General John Glover House is a National Historic Landmark at 11 Glover Square in Marblehead, Massachusetts.It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story gambrel-roofed colonial built in 1762 by John Glover (1732–1797), a local merchant, politician, and militia leader who gained fame for his military leadership in the American Revolutionary War.
Bonnet roof: A reversed gambrel or Mansard roof with the lower portion at a lower pitch than the upper portion. Monitor roof: A roof with a monitor; 'a raised structure running part or all of the way along the ridge of a double-pitched roof, with its own roof running parallel with the main roof.'
The house in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was also in the Second Empire style, as was the decaying house in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. There were positive representations as well, however: the nostalgic film Meet Me in St. Louis features a large Second Empire mansion beloved by the family.
The Tallman-Budke House, also known as the Onderdonck-Tallman-Budke House, is a historic house in the Germonds neighborhood of West Nyack, New York. It is a four-bay, Jersey Dutch stone house constructed of locally quarried sandstone with an evolved two-door, four-room plan. The roof is of the gambrel style. The house was built in stages, with ...
The Samuel Gardner House is a historic colonial American house in Swansea, Massachusetts.This 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood frame gambrel-roofed house was built c. 1768 by Samuel Gardner, whose father (also named Samuel) was the first English colonist to settle Gardner's Neck after its purchase from local Native Americans.