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The wood is exposed on the outside. Often a white house with dark wood constrasting against it.
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Built with logs and mud; Door faces East.
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Hip Roofs, balanced, symmetrical proportions, brick exterior, steep roofs, and tall second-story windows (often with arched tops).
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Thick walls with sun-dried Adobe bricks made of clay soil, sand and straw. Very energy efficent.
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Gable roofs, logs, and cement runnings. Horzonatal stripes with small windows and a fireplace on the inside.
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Two stories in the front and then the house slopes downwards and only has one story in the back. The roof is known as a catslide roof. Helps people aviod paying taxes for a two story house.
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Most often have balanced and symmetrical proportions, arched windows and doors, and brick exterior.
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Wooden frame with sticks and wet clay filling the spaces. It had a "black and white" effect.
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Stucco coated walls, instead of sliding, designed to keep cool in hot climates. Flat or gentky sloped red roofs.
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Teep roof, a center chimney, windows, side shingles, and an unornamented look.
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Symmetrical design, classic proportions, decorative elements, side-gabled or hipped roof.
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Pointed arch used for windows and doors. Some of the decorative elements include proches, dormers, and gable roofs. They also have steeply pitched roofs.
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A large, two or three story frame house with a symmetrical design. Two story columns extend across the entire front, covered by roof extension. The roof is hip or gable shutters and a small room on the roof of the house (lookout) is called the Belvedere.
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Very unique house with creative decoration and a very pastel color scheme.
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Large wrap around porch, hipped roofs, and designed for hot weather.
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Full height entry porch with pediment and columns, elliptical fanlight over the paneled front door, and symmetrically aligned windows and doors.
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Painted white to imitate exspensive marble. It frequently contained intricate details and pillars out front of the house.
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Sash windows: these functioned by sliding the bottoms half of the window upwards. Houses were built out of bricks or local stone with slanted roofs.
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Two or more stories, hip roof, box with a centered gable, L or U plan, L plan with a tower and a front gable, wide projecting cornices with heavy brackets and they richly ornamented windows, porches, and doorways.
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Pairie style homes were typically two story houses with single story wings. Important features of Prairie houses were horizantial lines, ribbon windows, big, bulky chimneys, sloping roofs, overhangs, and gardens.
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Bungalows often have the windows close to the roof. They have a living space on the first floors and bedrooms on the upper level.
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2 stories/second story overhang. Small panes of glass or double hung windows.
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Divided in half horizantally, Gambel roofs, central entrance, off-center chimney, and windows with small panes.
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Hipped and Mansard Roof, arched doorways, half-timbering and round towers.
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White, plain, modern look. Very sheek and syafisticated.
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Windows, walls, and doors designed to store and reflect solar energy. Panels on the roof and a very high tech house.
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Split-level houses are very innovative in its use of spacing. There is a main level with your basic rooms like a kitchen and living room and then a staircase that could lead to the bedrooms and another staircase leading down to the basement or laundry room.
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Ranch houses are long and low, consisting typically of only one level (and then the basement). They offer attached garages, open floor plans, and a basic exterior. Which allows for owners to customize the home.
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Energy efficent and deisgned to blend into natural and its surronding. Lots of windoes and muted colors.
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One story house with a bog room and partial walls. White outer walls with dark wood running sideways across the exterior.
