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2. New World Queen Anne Revival architecture - Wikipedia

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   a porch covering part or all of the front façade, including the primary entrance area; a second-story porch or balconies; pedimented porches; differing wall textures, such as patterned wood shingles shaped into varying designs, including resembling fish scales, terra cotta tiles, relief panels, or wooden shingles over brickwork, etc. dentils ...

3. Engawa - Wikipedia

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   Modern architecture often encloses an en with sheet glass. An engawa allows the building to remain open in the rain or sun, without getting too wet or hot, and allows flexible ventilation and sightlines. [4] The area under an engawa is sloped away from the building, and often paved, to carry water away.

4. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The former House and School of Industry at 120 West 16th Street in New York City Simon C. Sherwood House (1884), Southport, Connecticut. The British 19th-century Queen Anne style that had been formulated there by Norman Shaw and other architects arrived in New York City with the new housing for the New York House and School of Industry [3] at 120 West 16th Street (designed by Sidney V ...

5. Cedarmere-Clayton Estates - Wikipedia

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   A green glass-and-metal conservatory protrudes from the front, and a porch wraps around all but the north side. [1] A single-bay entrance pavilion projects onto the south porch, overlooking the larger pond and its stone bridge. It is topped with a railed balcony.

6. John Thompson House (Highland, New York) - Wikipedia

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   The house has been maintained as originally built with updates for modern amenities such as electricity. Veranda added in 1904. Significant exterior design features include a Belvedere tower with elongated windows on three sides with views of Poughkeepsie, NY across the Hudson River. The Hudson River is now visible from the tower only in the ...

7. Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) - Wikipedia

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   Furness used a similar plan and massing for his own country house, "Idlewild," with a U-shaped wrap-around porch taking the place of the arc of seminar rooms. As noted by architectural historian James F. O'Gorman: "For his own house in Media, [Furness] shrank the plan of the contemporary University Library, and erected over it a stone, brick ...