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  2. Splanch - Wikipedia

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    Rather, it is a three-level house inside of a two-level skin. Typically, they are a center-hall type of home, built on a slab. On the ground level, there is a garage in front, loaded from either the side or the front of the house. Garages were one or two bays, depending on the size of the splanch.

  3. Garrison (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Dormers often break through the cornice line. Historically, the term garrison means: a group of soldiers; a defensive structure; the location of a group of soldiers is assigned, such as garrison house or garrison town. [1] "The term garrison refers to the military or defensive character of a house", [2] but not as heavily built as a blockhouse ...

  4. Split-level home - Wikipedia

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    Split-Level House. 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, one running upward to a bedroom level, and one going downward toward a basement area.

  5. Dormer - Wikipedia

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    A dormer window (also called dormer) is a form of roof window. Dormers are commonly used to increase the usable space in a loft and to create window openings in a roof plane. [2] A dormer is often one of the primary elements of a loft conversion. As a prominent element of many buildings, different types of dormer have evolved to complement ...

  6. List of house types - Wikipedia

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    Snout house: a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the street. Octagon house: a house of symmetrical octagonal floor plan, popularized briefly during the 19th century by Orson Squire Fowler; Stilt house: is a house built on stilts above a body of water or the ground (usually in swampy areas prone to flooding).

  7. House plan - Wikipedia

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    Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.

  8. Three-decker (house) - Wikipedia

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    The economics of the three-decker are simple: the cost of the land, basement and roof are spread among three or six apartments, which typically have identical floor plans. [2] The three-decker apartment house was seen as an alternative to the row-housing built in other cities of Northeastern United States during this period, such as in New York ...

  9. Saltbox house - Wikipedia

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    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.