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"Shingle -like" <br />(Dutch! Colonial) <br />(3AMBREL ROOF <br />ASBESTOS SHINGLES ON WALL AND <br />ASPHALT SHINGLES ON ROOF <br />Folk Victorian <br />SQUARE PORCH SUPPORT WITH <br />DECORATIVE SPANDRELS <br />TURNED PORCH COLUMNS <br />RESIDENTIAL BUILDING STYLES <br />The Shingle style is a unique American style with <br />adapted characteristics from the Queen Anne <br />and Richardsonian Romanesque styles. The <br />style began as the design of choice for cottages <br />,in the seaside resorts between 1880 and 1900. <br />Characteristics include: <br />• free -formed and variable in style <br />• walll cladding and roofing of shingles <br />• asymmetrical facade with irregular, steeply <br />pitched roof lines with cross gables <br />0 multiple chimneys <br />Folk Victorian houses can be found throughout <br />the country. This style is characterized' by the <br />occurrence of Italianate or Queen Anne detailing <br />on simple house forms. Characteristics incluide., <br />• basic house with simple folk form <br />• symmetrical facade (except for gable -front - <br />and -wing types) <br />spindles, or square posts as porch <br />supports <br />• lace-like spandrels and turned balusters, <br />for porch railings and suspended friezes <br />• boxed or open roof -wall junctions <br />Design Standards for the City of Paris, Texas 85 <br />