The Classic Cottage is basically a one-story version of the
Foursquare. It features an elongated hipped roof with central dormer,
and front porch, often full-width, with thick porch posts or simplified
Doric columns supporting the porch roof. Sometimes the porch is inset
beneath the house roof. Popular between 1910 and 1930, the style was
most commonly used in residential architecture, although occasionally
seen on schoolhouses, train depots, or small institutional buildings.
Building materials were almost always masonry, particularly brick, with
a few rare wood frame examples. Ornamentation is generally limited to
window surrounds and flared eaves on the dormer. |
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