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Gingerbread is an architectural style that consists of elaborately detailed embellishment known as gingerbread trim. [1] It is more specifically used to describe the detailed decorative work of American designers in the late 1860s and 1870s, [ 2 ] which was associated mostly to the Carpenter Gothic style. [ 3 ]
Gingerbread was also worn as a talisman in battle or as protection against evil spirits. [4] Gingerbread was a significant form of popular art in Europe; [1] major centers of gingerbread mould carvings included Lyon, Nuremberg, Pest, Prague, Pardubice, Pulsnitz, Ulm, and ToruĊ. Gingerbread moulds often displayed actual happenings, by ...
The Gingerbread House (also known as the Cord Asendorf House) is a home in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is located at 1921 Bull Street, in the city's Victorian Historic District, and was built in 1899. It was built for Cord Asendorf Sr., a prominent Savannah merchant. He also designed the house.
In 1899, the "Gingerbread House" at 1921 Bull Street in Savannah was completed, the work of Hawley Construction Company. Also known as the Asendorf House, [ 9 ] Asendorf had designed it in the Carpenter Gothic style, [ 10 ] and he retired shortly after his family moved in.
The Reuel E. Smith House (also known as The Cove, The Gingerbread House, or Cobweb Cottage) [2] [3] located at 28 West Lake Street in Skaneateles, New York is a picturesque house designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, and later modified by Archimedes Russell. [4]
Michael Wolfe of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn decided to craft a gingerbread copy of the 1929 Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower in Fort Greene, the tallest building in the borough at 512 feet until 2009.
Arnett-Fullen House also known as the Gingerbread House, is located on 646 Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado and is on the list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Boulder County, Colorado since 2009. [2]
And, to set the record straight, gingerbread's history did not commence with the well-known fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel, published in 1812.