Farmhouse

Maine Farmhouse
House Style Workshop: Maine Farmhouse
This simple farmhouse in Maine has tall cross gables and looks larger from the street than it actually is. What style is it?

Farmhouse floor plans are usually square or symmetrically shaped, sometimes with side wings.

Late Victorian farmhouse near Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Michelsen Farmstead built in 1899, is a Victorian style farmstead that is a Provincial Historic Site of Alberta located in the National Historic Site, Stirling, Alberta, Canada.

elevations for the farmhouse which became the Gothic Revival Cottage, the single most popular home style in Canada until 1950.
Simcoe ...

- a defensible farmhouse, ( perhaps from French Bastille) the usual form of which was a vaulted ground floor on a rectangular plan, housing animals, with living accommodation above, entered by a forestair.

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Adapted from eighteenth century farmhouses erected by Dutch settlers, the defining characteristic of the style is a gambrel roof, which was introduced to America by the Dutch in the Mid-Atlantic colonies.

steep-roofed "praying hands" style farmhouse
gazebo
A small lookout tower or summerhouse with a view, usually in a garden or park, but sometimes on the porch or roof of a house; also called a belvedere.

Although deemed a "cottage," it may be a farmhouse or a house in a village, town or city.

Before us lay a green sloping land full of forests and woods, with here and there steep hills, crowned with clumps of trees or with farmhouses, the blank gable end to the road.
Dracula by Stoker, Bram View in context ...

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