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  2. A-frame building - Wikipedia

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    A-frame buildings are an ancient form in Europe (e.g. cruck frame construction or grubenhaus ), China, and the South Pacific islands. Sometimes called a roof hut, these were simple structures used for utilitarian purposes until the 1950s. [ 2] In 1934, R. M. Schindler built the first modern A-frame house, for owner Gisela Bennati, in Lake ...

  3. American Foursquare - Wikipedia

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    A wood-frame American Foursquare house in Minnesota with dormer windows on each side and a large front porch Wegeforth-Wucher house, Burlingame, San Diego. The American Foursquare (also American Four Square or American 4 Square) is an American house vernacular under the Arts and Crafts style popular from the mid-1890s to the late 1930s.

  4. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    American historic carpentry is the historic methods with which wooden buildings were built in what is now the United States since European settlement. A number of methods were used to form the wooden walls and the types of structural carpentry are often defined by the wall, floor, and roof construction such as log, timber framed, balloon framed ...

  5. Framing (construction) - Wikipedia

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    Framing (construction) Framing side by side units. The erection of a wooden frame in Sabah, Malaysia. Framing, in construction, is the fitting together of pieces to give a structure support and shape. [ 1] Framing materials are usually wood, engineered wood, or structural steel. The alternative to framed construction is generally called mass ...

  6. Florida cracker architecture - Wikipedia

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    Florida cracker architecture. Florida cracker style house. Florida cracker architecture or Southern plantation style is a style of vernacular architecture typified by a low slung, wood-frame house, with a large porch. It was widespread in the 19th and early 20th century. Some elements of the style are still popular as a source of design themes.

  7. Ranch-style house - Wikipedia

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    Smaller ranch-style house in West Jordan, Utah, with brick exterior and side drop gable roof. Ranch (also known as American ranch, California ranch, rambler, or rancher) is a domestic architectural style that originated in the United States. The ranch-style house is noted for its long, close-to-the-ground profile, and wide open layout.

  8. Neher–Elseffer House - Wikipedia

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    The Neher–Elseffer House is located on U.S. Route 9 a short distance north of its intersection with New York State Route 9G in Rhinebeck, New York, United States. It is a frame house built in 1746, one of the rare pre- Revolutionary frame houses in the Rhinebeck area. [1] Its current appearance reflects renovations made circa 1800, and the ...

  9. Mary McLeod Bethune Home - Wikipedia

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    The Mary McLeod Bethune Home is located on the northeast side of the Bethune-Cookman campus, west of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. It is a modest two-story frame house. Stylistically, it is an American Foursquare, with wings extending to the sides, and a hip-roof porch across the front. The house is not architecturally distinguished ...

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