Shingle

Shingle Style.................... Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

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Shingle Style House in Schenectady, NY
Architects rebelled against Victorian fussiness when they designed rustic Shingle Style homes, popular in the Northeastern United States between 1874 and 1910.

Shingles are thin tiles, usually rectangular, that are laid in overlapping rows to provide the final finish for walls and roofs. Shingles can be made of wood, cedar in particular, known as shakes, or stone.
Asphalt - Waterloo
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Shingle Style
The Shingle style originated in the trendy northeastern coastal resort towns of Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Newport, Rhode Island in the 1870s.

Shingles
small, flat pieces of wood which are used to cover the roof in order to protect the house. Sometimes they look like fish scales.
Transom
a window or panel, usually operable, above a window or door.

Shingles
Chisel, Diamond, Fishscale, Octagon, Sawtooth, Square Butt
Stairs ...

Shingles - Wooden tiles for covering roofs, walls and spires, They were sometimes of other materials (e.g. asbestos, cement) but were always cut to standard shapes and sizes.
Roof shingles ...

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A thin wedge-shaped piece of wood, slate, etc. laid with others in a series of overlapping rows for roofs and sides of houses.
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Shingle - A unit composed of wood, cement, asphalt compound, slate, tile or the like, employed in an overlapping series to cover roofs and walls.

Shingles: Small rectangular slabs of wood used on roofs instead of tiles, slates etc.
Soakaway: Arrangement for disposal of rainwater, utilising graded aggregate laid below ground.

Shingle Style: Shingle Style houses (1880-1900) originated in the upper-class summer resort communities of New England. These large examples are rambling, asymmetrical structures with various gables, porches, towers, etc.

Shingles - A flat thin rectangular timber tile as roof cladding or over walls, laid so that each tile overlaps the one below.

Cedar Shingle - A roofing material made of durable pinewood..
Cement Blocks - Mass produced building blocks made from pouring concrete into a mold..

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A new Replica shingle Queen Anne house opposite Queen's Park in New Westminster, British Columbia ...

Asphalt Shingle - A roofing material made of a brown or black tar like substance mixed with sand or gravel.

Shingle
- a wooden tile which has been used for roofing for several thousand years. Used in exactly the same way as clay/concrete tiles, traditionally in Britain they were oak, now mostly Canadian cedar.

Shingle - Shingle architecture is relaxed and informal with wall cladding and roofing of continuous wood shingles.

shingled or clapboard exterior
extension added to rear or side
CLASSIC AND GREEK REVIVAL c. 1830s-1860s ...

shingles - thin pieces of wood used in overlapping rows to cover roofs and exterior walls of houses; can be cut in decorative shapes
sidelights - windows at either side of a door; often in conjunction with a transom above door and sidelights ...

The shingle house plan style is a unique American form of other traditions. It incorporates elements from the Queen Anne style, the Richardsonian Romanesque, and the colonial revival style.

Fish-Scale Shingles
Overlapping wooden tiles used to clad exterior walls; may take various shapes such as fish-scales, diamonds or squares.
Foundation ...

Shingle - Wooden slab used like a roofing slate: a board.
Shingle Style - Late 19th century US style involving cladding houses with shingles, or wooden tiles, over timber frames ...

The houses were almost entirely made out of wood, including the thick shingles. the windows were made of small panes of glass and had the style of double hung.

Wood shingles in gable peak
5. Brackets
6. Gable detailing on porch
7. Grouped columns set on brick piers
8. Brick arch
9. 1 over 1 double hung sash windows
10. Stone belt course
11. Stone water table
12. Cut stone foundation ...

Shims
Wood wedges (often wood shingles) used to secure the window or door unit in the rough or masonry opening in a square, level and plumb position during and after installation.

Imbrication - Overlapping of shingles or tiles
Impost - Horizontal band from which arch begins
Ionic Column - Slender, fluted, with spiral volutes on capital ...

A variety of building materials are commonly used for wall treatment, including wooden shingles or clapboards, stucco, and embedded cobblestones.

Northeastern Georgian building materials were usually clapboard or shingles. In the mid-Atlantic colonies brick or stone was readily available. Brick was used most often in the South.

imbricated - used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles
imbricate
phytology, botany - the branch of biology that studies plants ...

Type of tombstone in the form of the hipped roof of a shrine or church, which bears a superficial resemblance to a hog's back (the shingles looking like bristles).
Hood moulding - ...

ShellThin, self-supporting roofing membrane of timber or concrete.Sheugh(Scots): A trench or open drain; a street gutter.ShinglesThin pieces of wood like overlapping tiles, used externally.Shouldered arch ...

On the outside, these have a rustic appearance with its steep gabled roofs, overhanging eaves, exposed crafters, and "earthy" building materials of wooden shingles, stucco, and field stones. Dormers and large front porches are common.

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