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2. Roof shingle - Wikipedia

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   A shingle roof in Zakopane, Poland. With an area of 6000 m 2 (1½ acres), it was one of the largest wooden shingle roofs in Europe. A roof’s shingles are roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements. These elements are typically flat, rectangular shapes laid in courses from the bottom edge of the roof up, with each successive ...

3. Shingle style architecture - Wikipedia

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   This impression of the passage of time is enhanced by the use of shingles. Some architects, in order to attain a weathered look on a new building, had the cedar shakes dipped in buttermilk, dried and then installed, to leave a grayish tinge to the façade. Shingle style houses often use a gambrel or hip roof. Such houses thus emanate a more ...

4. List of house styles - Wikipedia

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5. William Watts Sherman House - Wikipedia

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   The William Watts Sherman House is a notable house designed by American architect H. H. Richardson, with later interiors by Stanford White.It is a National Historic Landmark, generally acknowledged as one of Richardson's masterpieces and the prototype for what became known as the Shingle Style in American architecture.

6. Roof - Wikipedia

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   The characteristics of a roof are dependent upon the purpose of the building that it covers, the available roofing materials and the local traditions of construction and wider concepts of architectural design and practice, and may also be governed by local or national legislation. In most countries, a roof protects primarily against rain.

7. List of architectural styles - Wikipedia

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   Shingle Style 1879–1905; Neo-Byzantine 1882–1920s (US) Renaissance Revival. American Renaissance; Châteauesque 1887–1930s (Canada, US, Hungary) Canadian Chateau 1880s–1920s (Canada) Mediterranean Revival 1890s+ (US, Latin America, Europe) Mission Revival 1894–1936; (California, southwest US) Pueblo Revival 1898–1930+ (southwest US)