Some Shingle Style homes also have these features:
- Wavy wall surface
- Patterned shingles
- Squat half-towers
- Palladian windows
- Roughhewn stone on lower stories
- Stone arches over windows and porches
About the Shingle Style
By Jackie Craven, About.com Guide
Variations in the Shingle Style
Shingles and Arches characterize this New York home
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- About the Shingle Style
- History of the Shingle Style
- Features of the Shingle Style
- Variations in the Shingle Style
- Do Shingles Make the Style?
- The Shingle Style Defined
- Shingle Style Without Shingles
- American House Styles Transformed
- Frank Lloyd Wright and the Shingle Style
- Modern Day Shingle Houses
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