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Aside from being a style of design, the style also conveyed a sense of the house as continuous volume. This effect—of the building as an envelope of space, rather than a great mass, was enhanced by the visual tautness of the flat shingled surfaces, the horizontal shape of many shingle style houses, and the emphasis on horizontal continuity ...
Shingle Style was pioneered by Henry Hobson Richardson in his design for the William Watts Sherman House, also in Newport. This style of Victorian architecture, featuring the extensive use of wooden shingles on the exterior, acquired some popularity in the late nineteenth century. The Isaac Bell House exemplifies this through its unpainted wood ...
By Bud Dietrich, AIA First popularized by the Vanderbilts, Astors, Morgans and their peers, the Shingle style developed in New England in the mid to late 1800s in reaction to the highly ornamented ...
Joseph Nelson Hallock House; T. G. Henderson House; The Hickories; Benjamin Franklin Holland House; House at 2 Nichols Street; House at 6 Adams Street; House at 18 Walnut Street; House at 19 Locust Place; House at 25 Avon Street; House at 41 Middlesex Road; House at 42 Vinal Avenue; House at 49 Vinal Avenue; House at 89 Rawson Road and 86 ...
Wrote architectural historian Leland Roth, "Although little known in its own time, the Low House has come to represent the high mark of the Shingle Style." [3] The house was built for William Gilman Low (1844–1936), a lawyer and stepson of Abiel Abbot Low, and Lois Robbins Low (1850–1923), his wife and a daughter of Benjamin Robbins Curtis ...
Kragsyde (1883–85 – 1929) was a Shingle style mansion designed by the Boston architectural firm of Peabody & Stearns and built at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. Although long demolished, it is considered an icon of American architecture.