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A mansard roof on the Château de Dampierre, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, great-nephew of François Mansart. A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer windows.
Żelazowa Wola, the birthplace of Fryderyk Chopin - one of two minor outbuildings of the Manor house A large manor in Łopuszna with a mansard roof, typical to all Polish manors Interior of a manor-house that once belonged to Wincenty Pol, Lublin. A manor house of Polish-Lithuanian nobility is called dwór [1] or dworek in Polish and dvaras in ...
The Samuel Farquhar House is an historic Second Empire style building located in the village of Newton Corner in Newton, Massachusetts. The 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story wood-frame house was built c. 1868. Its mansard roof is shingled in slate tiles of varying colors and shapes, arranged in decorative patterns.
The steep slope may be curved. An element of the Second Empire architectural style (Mansard style) in the U.S. Neo-Mansard, Faux Mansard, False Mansard, Fake Mansard: Common in the 1960s and 70s in the U.S., these roofs often lack the double slope of the Mansard roof and are often steeply sloped walls with a flat roof. Unlike the Second Empire ...
The house features horizontal bands of gray sandstone across the ochre brick facade and vertical stone at the buildings corners. The windows on the structure are framed by vertical bands of the same gray sandstone and are in perpendicular rows. The mansard roof is made of slate and features large dormers. [2]
It was built in 1875, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, Eastlake movement style brick dwelling, with Italianate and Gothic Revival style design elements. It features a 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-story central tower with a mansard roof and full width front porch. [2]: 2 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]
The mansard roof, a defining feature of Second Empire design, had evolved since the 16th century in France and Germany and was often employed in 18th- and 19th-century European architecture. Its appearance in the United States was relatively uncommon in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
[4] The Fitzgerald house is faced with brownstone and is two bays wide with a polygonal two-story window bay on the right, and the entrance, recessed under a round arch that is flush with the bay front, on the left. The mansard roof has a cross-gable with two round-arch windows and decorative finials. [5]