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Enclosed shed rooms are also sometimes found at the front, although a shed-roof front porch is the most common form. [1] [3] The breezeway through the center of the house is a unique feature, with rooms of the house opening into the breezeway. The breezeway provided a cooler covered area for sitting.
An "upscale" custom farmer's porch colonial situated on eight acres abutting Easton Country Club sold for $1,176,000. ... 2 Farm Road, Daniel J. and Kristina Provitola to Bryan Dorsey and Leonard ...
Various architectural periods can be found in this house that span over four generations. The original 2 and a half story house dating to the 17th century is found left of the front door which spans three windows on each floor. As a whole the house has elements that date from as built to the Victorian era. [66] White Horse Inn Ipswich c.1659
It was always one-and-a-half stories, with a side-gabled roof, and often had upper floor dormer windows. However, it accommodated a full-width front porch under the main roof, with doors or jib-windows opening from all of the rooms onto the porch, and was usually raised high above the ground on a full raised basement or piers.
Thomas Lee House, East Lyme, Connecticut. A saltbox house is a gable-roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear. It is a traditional New England style of home, originally timber framed, which takes its name from its resemblance to a wooden lidded box in which salt was once kept.
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.
These basic houses featured double-pitched hipped roofs and were surrounded by porches (galleries) to handle the hot summer climate. By 1770, the basic French Colonial house form evolved into the briquette-entre-poteaux (small bricks between posts) style familiar in the historic areas of New Orleans and other areas. These homes featured double ...
Otis extensively remodeled the house in 1806 by adding ten feet to the west of the original structure, creating a sixth bay. This new section expanded the front parlor, and gave Otis a small office for his practice. The house remained unchanged until the mid-late 20th century when porches were added along with interior alterations to the house ...