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What style of house is this?
This is my house, and I am wondering the technical "style"...... Thanks!!!
lol... just bought it Geoffrey, so they might thing it's odd if I rake the leaves a week before closing. ;) Although I did drive by it a lot and so the neighbors will be glad when they realize I was looking at the house and not shopping for children.
Built in 1962, on a street with all 1940-1950s homes.... I wonder why that is?
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- meLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
That house crosses a few designs...The placement of the doors says "center hall colonial", The columns placement says "greek revival". The windows on the second floor say "salt box". The overall design screams like a fully raised roof cape.
This is a center hall colonial there is a formal entry hall and the livingroom and diningroom are left and right off the hall http://www.hoyehometeam.com/asp/homes/1747%5C35862...
Greek revival is depicted by columns like this http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1117/884853255_4add...
Salt box the 2nd floor has a angled ceiling and normally smallish windows many times there is an addition out back http://media.canada.com/a84cc1cc-47e6-47a3-8408-78...
Raised cape http://img2.timeinc.net/toh/i/g/1108-before-after-...
The front door is a modified federal.
This house needs to figure out what it wants to be.
To turn it colonial you need to lose the columns and add perhaps window boxes the front entry "should" have a bit more prominance.
Adding the top cap (Pediment) for greek revival would be costly on the roof. http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/oxford...
But adding one over the door would define this house.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
That is in the Georgian colonial style. (King George not state of Georgia) That style of house is still very popular in Virginia as is the Federal style which replaced the Georgian style.
I say it's in the Georgian colonial style and not actually Georgian colonial because if it were a real reflection of a Georgian colonial, that view should be of the back of the house not the front.
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good point about it being a knock off of Southern colonial but it's not really ornate enough to be Southern colonial and it has a much more Georgian feel.
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give the points to Mr or Ms Me. S/he has it. The house is actually a mish mash of several colonial styles and not really any one style.
Source(s): Front view of a Georgian colonial http://architecture.about.com/od/periodsstyles/ig/... Back view of Mt Vernon (this is actually Federal period but Georgian period would look similiar) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MountVernonrear.... - 1 decade ago
It looks like a Colonial Revival Style House.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
I always loved the modern homes but since I have ended up renting a very old home, a miners cottage, I now love the old style. I have the big full verandah at the front, the picket fence and beautiful rose gardens. Its been renovated inside and I feel so at home, I would love to live here forever! It was built in the 1940s. The sad thing is my landlord is demolishing the home to build 3 new townhouses on the site, so I will have to move from here later in the year.
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- 1 decade ago
It hard to say. I'm guessing it was built within the last 50 years, the pillars out front make in to appear colonial but i'm assuming that they aren't solid wood? if so i would consider your house a two story brick house.
So the answer to your question is a brick house.
(btw just my opinion install smaller windows out front, and and bring the porch roof down 1 story and install solid wood pillars.)
but overall nice house ;)
Source(s): life - Gary DLv 71 decade ago
Definitely, "Colonial", referring to the style of the original 13 colonies. This style is very common from Virginia, Northward throughout the Northeast US.