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Wide eaves of a typical ranch house, this one built in 1966 in California. Prominent features are of the original ranch house style include: Single story; Long, low-pitch roofline; Asymmetrical rectangular, L-shaped, or U-shaped design; Simple, open floor plans; Living areas separate from the bedroom(s) area; Attached garage
An I-house is a two or three-story house that is one room deep with a double-pen, hall-parlor, central-hall or saddlebag layout. [15] New England I-house: characterized by a central chimney [16] Pennsylvania I-house: characterized by internal gable-end chimneys at the interior of either side of the house [16]
Typically, the garage is on one side of the house and there is a floor above the garage housing the bedrooms. The other half of the house is the main living area, part of a story above the garage level and part of a story below the bedroom level. Grading or steps connect the exterior street to the front door on the main level.
Image credits: lkfjk #5. Bank vault door. Except it was on the outside of his house attached to his garage/shop. It was massive. My husband and I had driven like 3 hours to buy some fancy ...
Such design is typically employed in the United States and Canada to make a dwelling affordable for a family of modest income by combining a narrow lot (sometimes as small as 35 feet (10.6 metres) in width) with a minimum 5 feet setback from each side line, which results in a 25 foot (7.5 metre) wide house. When a two car garage is added ...
The Plummer House is the former residence of Dr. Henry Stanley Plummer and Daisy Berkman Plummer. Located in Rochester, Minnesota and originally called Quarry Hill, the English Tudor mansion stood on a 65-acre (26 ha) estate which included a greenhouse, water tower, garage, and gazebo. The house is also called Henry S. Plummer House.
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The primary characteristics of a dogtrot house are that it is typically one story (although 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story and rarer two-story examples survive), and has at least two rooms, typically 18–20 feet (5.5–6.1 m) wide that each flank an open-ended central hall.