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Archive for the 'Real Estate News' Category
Georgian Homes
July 12th, 2008 categories: Real Estate News
Befitting a king–in fact, the style is named for four King Georges of England–Georgian homes are refined and symmetrical with paired chimneys and a decorative crown over the front door. Modeled after the more elaborate homes of England, the Georgian style dominated the British colonies in the 1700s.
This is a style you might spy […]
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French Provincial — ooh la la
July 11th, 2008 categories: Real Estate News
Balance and symmetry are the ruling characteristics of this formal style. Homes are often brick with detailing in copper or slate. Windows and chimneys are symmetrical and perfectly balanced, at least in original versions of the style. Defining features include a steep, high, hip roof; balcony and porch balustrades; rectangle doors set in arched openings; […]
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Federal Style
July 10th, 2008 categories: Real Estate News
Ubiquitous up and down the East Coast, Federal-style architecture dates from the late 1700s and coincided with a reawakening of interest in classical Greek and Roman culture. Builders began to add swags, garlands, elliptical windows, and other decorative details to rectangular Georgian houses.
I always think of Federal as a Victorian Village or Olde Towne […]
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Dutch Colonial
July 9th, 2008 categories: Real Estate News
This American style originated in homes built by German, or “Deutsch” settlers in Pennsylvania as early as the 1600s. I call it Barn Style because a hallmark of the style is a broad gambrel roof with flaring eaves that extend over the porches, creating a barn-like effect. Early homes were a single room, and additions were […]
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The Contemporary Home
July 8th, 2008 categories: Real Estate News
You know them by their odd-sized and often tall windows, their lack of ornamentation, and their unusual mixtures of wall materials–stone, brick, and wood, for instance.
Contemporary homes may be sprinkled around Columbus in Worthington, Bexley, Central Eastmoor, Powell and Gahanna. Architects designed Contemporary-style homes (in the Modern family) between 1950 and 1970, and created […]
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The Colonial
July 7th, 2008 categories: Real Estate News
America’s colonial period encompassed a number of housing types and styles, including Cape Cod, Saltbox, Georgian, and Dutch Colonial. However, when we speak of the Colonial style, we often are referring to a rectangular, symmetrical home with bedrooms on the second floor. The double-hung windows usually have many small, equally sized square panes.
Houses like the one […]
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Cape Cod
July 6th, 2008 categories: Real Estate News
Cape Cods are everywhere throuought Columbus. Some of the first houses built in the United States were Cape Cods. The original colonial Cape Cod homes were shingle-sided, one-story cottages with no dormers. During the mid-20th century, the small, uncomplicated Cape Cod shape became popular in suburban developments.
A 20th-century Cape Cod is square or rectangular […]
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Art Deco
July 5th, 2008 categories: Real Estate News
The 1925 Paris Exhibition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs launched the Art Deco style, which echoed the Machine Age with geometric decorative elements and a vertically oriented design. This distinctly urban style was never widely used in residential buildings; it was more widespread in public and commercial buildings of the period. You can find Art Deco […]
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