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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.
The form is known as Temple and Wing in some academic circles. [3] One of the best known examples of a gable-and-wing is the Governor Charles M. Croswell House in Adrian, Michigan. Croswell helped his uncle Daniel Hicks build this house in the early 1840s when he was a teenager and later purchased the home from his widowed aunt.
An extension of a gable roof wherein the ridgeline is extended at the peak of the gable creating an angled eave elongated at the ridge is known as a prow or "winged" gable. This roof detail could occur on a forward facing prow but is most commonly found on the end gables of ranch houses and other mid-20th century designs. It added additional ...
Dutch gable, gablet: A hybrid of hipped and gable with the gable (wall) at the top and hipped lower down; i.e. the opposite arrangement to the half-hipped roof. Overhanging eaves forming shelter around the building are a consequence where the gable wall is in line with the other walls of the buildings; i.e., unless the upper gable is recessed.
Charleston single house: originating in Charleston, South Carolina, a narrow house with its shoulder to the street and front door on the side. Upright and Wing : a style originating in New England (particularly Upstate New York) and the Great Lakes states, usually of a Greek Revival style.
The main block of the house is gable front with a slope front gable wing on the south elevation. Exterior walls imbricated with wood fishscale shingles. Outstanding features on the main block include decorative ogee shaped bargeboard with incised scrollwork and drop pendants. The side gable contains round arched bargeboard of similar design.
The Rayner House is a brick Upright and Wing house with a two-story upright and one-story wing, along with a frame ell at the rear containing a kitchen. The main entrance is in the front of the upright and is flanked with sidelights. The house has gently sloping gable roofs with wide frieze boards, gable returns and fanlights in the gable peaks.
Frizel-Welling House, also known as the Charles Welling House and Joseph Frizel House, is a historic home located at Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. It was built in 1838, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style frame dwelling with a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wing constructed in 1818. It has a front gable roof with ...