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A gablefront house, also known as a gable front house or front gable house, is a vernacular (or "folk") house type in which the gable is facing the street or entrance side of the house. [1] They were built in large numbers throughout the United States primarily between the early 19th century and 1920.
302 N. Main St; G. F. Brown/Aerial Warren House. 1902 two and one-half story Queen Anne with rusticated stone foundation, clapboard siding, shingle siding in the gables, steep pitch gable roof with projecting gable on front facade with returns and brackets, open front porch with wood columns, and double-hung windows. [3]
Five bays wide and two bays deep, with a gable roof, it features a pedimented porch supported by two columns. [2] The foundation construction is a twenty-one-inch hand cut stone that was obtained from a local quarry. The external and internal house walls are double brick. A unique feature is the "bridged" end chimneys.
The wraparound porch has decorative spindle work, brackets, and turned posts and balustrade. The multi-gable complex roof has decorative shingles in the gables. The house retains its original wood door and window surrounds" (photo 12) 115 W. Broad Street (1898) "It is a one-story, gabled-wing, frame cottage with front projecting bay.
Another Federal-style home is the 1830s-era Barto residence at 159 South Tulpehocken Street. A 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story brick structure which is three bays wide with a gable roof, it is distinguished by its two round-headed dormers, windows with period shutters, and front entrance with entablature and pilasters. [4]
The single room is 12'x24' with a gable roof over the concrete floor. Double vertical board doors, standing seam metal gable roof cover the structure. The building has a boiling pan over a brick fire box. This is connected to the brick chimney. The roof includes gabled ridge vent with hopper panel vent, and metal ball finials.
A semi-detached bay-and-gable with a front porch built at the front entrance. Semi-detached bay-and-gables from the mid-to-late 19th century typically featured a two-and-one-half-storey façade clad in brick; with a ground-floor bay window fronting the principal room and its entrance sheltered by a small porch. [9]
A raised wooden porch is still visible on the rear (northeast) of the building. On the front (southwest) side, the initial wooden porch has been substituted with a poured concrete stoop, completed before 1955. The windows consist of consistently designed 6/6 double-hung sashes, with a single window present on both the front and rear and on each ...