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2. 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).

3. Australian residential architectural styles - Wikipedia

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   Home in the Queenslander style. Australian residential architectural styles have evolved significantly over time, from the early days of structures made from relatively cheap and imported corrugated iron (which can still be seen in the roofing of historic homes) to more sophisticated styles borrowed from other countries, such as the California bungalow from the United States, the Georgian ...

4. Gingerbread (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   They were typically one and a half story to one and three-quarter story brick homes with gingerbread wood trim on gables and the front facade. This type of house became prominent from the 1870s to the 1890s. [10] In 1878, a fire in Cape May, New Jersey, destroyed 30 blocks of properties of the seaside town. The town rebuilt quickly.

5. Gamble House (Pasadena, California) - Wikipedia

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   Exterior view from the front lawn, showing southwest-facing front door and front gable. One major feature of the Gamble House was to be distinct from many other houses nearby, such as the Neoclassical style Fenyes House [citation needed] (Robert Farquhar, 1906–1907). Considering that many Greene and Greene projects have been altered to some ...

6. Split-level home - Wikipedia

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   The raised ranch includes a basement on the bottom and a "full set of stairs" (a full flight of stairs, usually 12 or 13) which leads to the first level. A raised ranch has a different look on the front than a split-entry as the front door lines up to the front windows differently. The front door entry is predominately at the lower floor.

7. American colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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   The standard vernacular house built by the colonists in this region between the first settlement in 1607 and the end of British rule in 1776 followed the I-plan format, had either interior or exterior gable chimneys, and was either wooden or brick. Most were only one room deep.