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  2. Garrison (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Olsen-Hesketh House, Blake Road, Brownfield, Maine, a contemporary garrison colonial built 1988–89. A garrison is an architectural style of house, typically two stories with the second story overhanging in the front. The traditional ornamentation is four carved drops (pineapple, strawberry or acorn shape) below the overhang.

  3. American colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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    The Cape Cod style homes were a common home in the early 17th of New England colonists, these homes featured a simple, rectangular shape commonly used by colonists. [3] Dutch Colonial structures, built primarily in the Hudson River Valley , Long Island , and northern New Jersey , reflected construction styles from Holland and Flanders and used ...

  4. List of Gilded Age mansions - Wikipedia

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    Gilded Age mansions were lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack ...

  5. A Complete Guide to American Colonial-Style Houses

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    American Colonial homes are rectangular, often two stories, and symmetrical. They are traditionally built with wood or stone and have steep, side-gabled roofs. A Complete Guide to American ...

  6. Colonial Revival architecture - Wikipedia

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    From 1910–1930, the Colonial Revival movement was ascendant, with about 40% of U.S. homes built in the Colonial Revival style. [1] In the immediate post-war period (c. 1950s –early 1960s), Colonial Revival homes continued to be constructed, but in simplified form. In the present-day, many New Traditional homes draw from Colonial Revival styles.

  7. A Complete Guide to American Colonial-Style Houses

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    American Colonial homes are rectangular, often two stories, and symmetrical. They are traditionally built with wood or stone and have steep, side-gabled roofs. A Complete Guide to American ...

  8. Architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    From 1910–1930, the Colonial Revival movement was ascendant, with about 40% of U.S. homes built during this period in the Colonial Revival style. [22] In the immediate post-war period (c. 1950s–early 1960s), Colonial Revival homes continued to be constructed, but in simplified form.

  9. An American cultural revolution is killing cookie cutter ...

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    It was built in 1959 and consists of three cul-de-sacs and 50 homes — with just two floor plans. Barbara Dinneweth moved there with her husband and two daughters in 1976.