enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Levitt & Sons - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitt_&_Sons

   Alfred Levitt, still a teenager, became vice president of design and drafted plans for the first Levitt house, a six bedroom, two bathroom Tudor style home that sold for over $14,000 in 1929 (roughly $248,000 today). The Levitts sold 600 of these upper-middle-class homes, part of the Strathmore project, in four years during the Great Depression.

3. Two-up two-down - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-up_two-down

   Two-up two-down. Two-up two-down is a type of small house with two rooms on the ground floor and two bedrooms upstairs. [1][2][3] There are many types of terraced houses in the United Kingdom, and these are among the most modest. Those built before 1875, the pre-regulation terraces, shared one toilet between several households.

4. Split-level home - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-level_home

   Split-Level House. The stairway in a split level dormitory. Note that the entry on the higher floor is not at the ceiling level of the lower entry, but approximately half its height. A split-level home (sometimes called a tri-level home) is a style of house in which the floor levels are staggered. There are typically two short sets of stairs ...

5. Strawberry box houses - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_box_houses

   Strawberry box houses. A Victory House on Finch Avenue West in Willowdale, Toronto, which was part of a 140-home development in c.1950, only 32 of which remain in 2022. In Canada, a strawberry box house is a house, built during World War II [1] and into the 1950s to 1960s, in a style that uses a square or rectangular foundation.

6. American Foursquare - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Foursquare

   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.

7. Cape Cod (house) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Cod_(house)

   Cape Cod (house) A Cape Cod house is a low, broad, single or double-story frame building with a moderately-steep-pitched gabled roof, a large central chimney, and very little ornamentation. Originating in New England in the 17th century, the simple symmetrical design was constructed of local materials to withstand the stormy weather of Cape Cod.