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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.
The Whipple–Angell–Bennett House is an historic house at 157 Olney Avenue in North Providence, Rhode Island. It is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story gambrel-roofed wood-frame structure, four bays wide, with a series of additions extending it to the north and east. Built in 1766, it is one of only two surviving gambrel-roofed 18th-century houses in North ...
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: Indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest, the Coast Salish, used gambrel roof form (Suttle & Lane (1990), p. 491). [10]
The main and earliest part of the house, considered to have been built between 1666 and 1676, is a gambrel roofed, 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story structure, approximately 40 feet by 20 feet. Sometime between 1783 and 1831 Lowland Cottage received two additions: a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story gambrel-roofed wing on the east end, and a two-story wing on the north side ...
The main block of the house is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gambrel roof and clapboarded exterior. To its rear is attached a 1-1/2 story ell with a gabled roof; a long ell extending southward containing a kitchen, dairy, corn barn and secondary dwelling; and an addition to the north, containing another kitchen.
It has a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story addition connected by a gambrel roofed hyphen built in 1936–1937. [3] The house was constructed by John Jackson for his daughter, Julia Jackson Davis, when the farm was called Mine Ridge. After a period when it was named Fairview, it was eventually known as Cornwell Farm after owner B.F. Cornwell.
Weblin House is a historic home located at Virginia Beach, Virginia.It was built in 1653, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, three-bay, Colonial era vernacular brick farmhouse. It is topped by a gambrel roof (the original gable roof was replaced after a fire) and has two massive exterior-end chimneys with a T-shaped stack and cap.
Red Hill is a historic plantation house located near Bullock, Granville County, North Carolina, United States.The house consists of three parts: a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, two-bay gambrel-roofed Georgian style center block built about 1776; a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, two-bay one-room, gable-roofed Georgian style block with transitional Federal features, built about 1807; and a very tall two-story, three ...