In Victorian days, shingles were often used as ornamentation on houses on Queen Anne and other highly decorated styles. But Henry Hobson Richardson, Charles McKim, Stanford White, and even Frank Lloyd Wright began to experiment with shingle siding. <p> The architects used natural colors and informal compositions to suggest the rustic homes of New England settlers. By covering most or all of a building with shingles stained a single color, architects created an uniform, unembellished surface. Monotoned and unornamented, these homes celebrated the honesty of form, the purity of line.
About the Shingle Style
By Jackie Craven, About.com Guide
History of the Shingle Style
The Shingle Style Isaac Bell House in Newport, RI by McKim, Mead and White
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A shingled home does not stand on ceremony. It blends into the landscape of wooded lots. Wide, shady porches encourage lazy afternoons in rocking chairs. The roughhewn siding and the rambling shape suggest that the house was thrown together without fuss or fanfare.
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- Features of the Shingle Style
- Variations in the Shingle Style
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- Shingle Style Without Shingles
- American House Styles Transformed
- Frank Lloyd Wright and the Shingle Style
- Modern Day Shingle Houses
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