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  2. William Seabrook House - Wikipedia

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    This house has been described as a classic plan for houses on Edisto. [8] It is an Early Republic or Federal style, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story frame house on a raised basement. It has a gabled roof with dormers. It has a double portico with pediment with a semielliptical fanlight, columns, and arched entablature. Double stairways rise to the first floor ...

  3. Splanch - Wikipedia

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    Rather, it is a three-level house inside of a two-level skin. Typically, they are a center-hall type of home, built on a slab. On the ground level, there is a garage in front, loaded from either the side or the front of the house. Garages were one or two bays, depending on the size of the splanch.

  4. Garrison (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The second-story windows often are smaller than those on the first floor. Dormers often break through the cornice line. Historically, the term garrison means: a group of soldiers; a defensive structure; the location of a group of soldiers is assigned, such as garrison house or garrison town. [1]

  5. Garret - Wikipedia

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    The Garreteer's Petition by Turner, 1809 Carl Spitzweg, The Poor Poet (Der arme Poet), 1839, depicting a garret room Place Saint-Georges in Paris, showing top-floor garret windows A garret is a habitable attic , a living space at the top of a house or larger residential building, traditionally small with sloping ceilings.

  6. Split-level home - Wikipedia

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    Split-Level House. A split-level home (sometimes called a tri-level home) is a style of house in which the floor levels are staggered.There are typically two short sets of stairs, one running upward to a bedroom level, and one going downward toward a basement area.

  7. American Foursquare - Wikipedia

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    The American Foursquare or "Prairie Box" was a post-Victorian style, which shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright.. During the early 1900s and 1910s, Wright even designed his own variations on the Foursquare, including the Robert M. Lamp House, "A Fireproof House for $5000", and several two-story models for American System-Built Homes.

  8. The Knickerbocker Hotel - Wikipedia

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    Original floor plans for the basement and subbasement The closed doorway to the original hotel, part of the subway station's fare-control area Below the lobby is a basement and subbasement, which retain their wall paneling, herringbone-patterned floors, and hexagonal white tile decorations. [ 11 ]

  9. Bungalow - Wikipedia

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    The benefit is that more light can enter the basement with above ground windows in the basement. A raised bungalow typically has a foyer at ground level that is halfway between the first floor and the basement. Thus, it further has the advantage of creating a foyer with a very high ceiling without the expense of raising the roof or creating a ...