Shingle Style – popular 1880-1900
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Photo: Isaac Bell House (a.k.a. Edna Villa), ca. 1883, 70 Perry Street, Newport, R.I. Designed for Bell, a wealthy cotton broker, by McKim, Mead & White. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997. Photographed by User:Daniel Case (own work), 2008, [CC-3.0] via Wikimedia Commons, accessed August, 2021.
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Shingle Style [1]
The Shingle style was an adaptation of three other contemporaneous styles: the Queen Anne, the Colonial Revival, and the Richardsonian Romanesque. The style emphasized an irregularly shaped form wrapped within a smooth, uniform shingled surface while de-emphasizing ornamentation around windows, doors, or cornices. Identifying features include steep-pitched roofs with cross gables and multi-level eaves, large porches, and towers that are only partially developed from the main body.
- Nancy L. Zerbe, Jennifer Warren, Marianne Walsh and Angela Materna, ARCH2, Inc., Allenhurst Residential Historic District, Allenhurst, Monmouth County, NJ, nomination document, 2009, National Register of Historic Places, Washington, D.C.