| Styles of Homes: The Victorian Period 1860–1900. Shingle 1880–1900. |
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Orientations of structure |
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Wood |
Horizontal |
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Wall cladding of continuous wood shingles; no corner boards
or decorative detail; sash windows often accentuated in bays
or recessed areas (shown); Palladian arches over windows.
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| Entrance Door |
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- Simple panel door
- Either no lites, or lites in the top section reflecting the home design
- No panels or decorative detailing
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| Shutters |
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- This style does not typically use shutters
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| Garage Door |
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- Flush-face surface material to simulate a flat, simple appearance
- Blended trim boards
- Window clusters to complement the home
- 6/1 lites, possibly with an arch if appropriate for the home
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| Style Summary |
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The Shingle style, like the Stick and spindlework Queen Anne, was a uniquely American adaptation of other traditions. Its roots are threefold :
- From the Queen Anne it borrowed wide porches, shingled surfaces, and asymmetrical forms.
- From the Colonial Revival it adapted gambrel roofs, rambling lean-to additions, Classical columns, and Palladian windows.
- From the contemporaneous Richardsonian Romanesque it borrowed an emphasis on irregular, sculpted shapes, Romanesque arches, and in some examples, lower stories constructed of stone (some scholars consider the Shingle to be merely the wooden phase of the masonry Richardsonian Romanesque, but the styles also have many dissimilarities).
The Shingle style was an unusually freeform and variable style;
without the ubiquitous shingle cladding it would be difficult
to relate many of its different expressions. One reason for this
great range of variation is that it remained primarily a high
fashion, architect’s style rather than becoming widely adopted
to mass vernacular housing, as did the contemporaneous
Queen Anne.
Among the innovative designers working in the style were
Henry Hobson and William Ralph Emerson of Boston; John
Calvin Steven of Portland; Maine’s McKim, Mead & White,
Bruce Price and Lamb and Richard of New York; Wilson Eyre of
Philadelphia; and Willis Polk of San Francisco.
Excerpted from A Field Guide to American Houses, Virginia and
Lee McAlester, Alfred Knopf, New York, © 2000.
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