About Shingle Style Architecture
By Jackie Craven, About.com Guide
Shingle Style Without Shingles
Prospect Hill Bed and Breakfast Inn, Tennessee
Photo reprinted with permission of the owners
For example, look at the 1889 Victorian mansion, Prospect Hill in Mountain City, Tennessee. It has the complex, asymmetrical shape and the relatively unornamented surface of a Shingle Style home. Yet the building, now a bed and breakfast inn, is rendered in brick.
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- About the Shingle Style
- History of the Shingle Housing 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 Shingle Architecture
- Modern Day Shingle Houses
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