The Architecture Styles of Oakham

Presented by: The students in Mrs. Johnson and Miss Miller’s

classes.

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The colonial house often started as one house. Friends built the houses themselves and added more rooms as they needed them. The Colonists wanted to build homes exactly like the ones they left behind in England, but America’s climate forced them to make some changes. They put on clapboard sidings to keep the rain and cold winds out. They also built huge stone or brick chimneys in the middle of the house so that each room could have a fireplace. Glass, imported from England , was so scarce and expensive that windows had to be kept small. Different versions of the colonial house were built from the 1600’s to the early 1800’s. Look carefully. Some modern homes are made to look like a Colonial house.

Georgian architecture also strongly influenced buildings in the American Colonies and the United States during the 1700s and the early 1800s. The character of Georgian architecture was primarily influenced by classical Roman architecture and its revival by the Italian architect Andrea Palladio classical 1500s. A typical Georgian design emphasized simplicity, symmetry, classical details. Some more typical Georgian design are columns that feature classical orders.

Features of Federal StylesWhat is a fanlight? A fanlight is a semi-circular or semi-elliptical window over a doorway or another window. Federal or Adam style homes often have fanlights.

What is a Palladian window? A Palladian window is a window which is divided into 3 parts. The center section is larger than the 2 side sections, and is usually arched. Renaissance architecture and other buildings in classical styles often have Palladian windows. On Federal style houses there is often a Palladian window in the center of the 2nd story.

What is dental molding? A dental is one series of a series of closely spaced rectangular blocks that form a molding. The dental molding usually projects below the cornice, along the roofline of a building. However the dental molding can form a decorative .

The features of the Greek Revival house are the Pediment Entablature, which is a triangular roof, if you are standing in front of it. The roof may or may not have windows.Another feature is a Doric pillar, which supports a roof above it. This type of pillarhas no designs on it and has a flat surface. Another feature of the Greek Revival is the Ionic pillar, which also supports something above it. This has a flat surface with something that looks like a scroll below the surface. There are Corinthian pillars whichHave a curled leaf design at the top of it. The Pilaster Frieze is another feature. It is a board that is indented into the house. It can have any design you like on it. At the top of the board, it suddenly pops out like the top of a pillar.

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Features of ItalianateCupola ~ Wide Frame

Arched window with mood ~ Bracket

Bracketed wide eaves

Low pitched or flat roof

Wide overhanging eaves

Decorative paired brackets

Square cupola

Arched porch top with balconies

rectangular massing of house

Elaborate decoration

The Italianate style features

details such as arches and

brackets, low pitched or flat roofs

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Features of the Renaissance:

*Houses have centrally located doors.*Houses have ornately carved stone window trim varying in design at each story.*Some smaller square windows are on the top floor of the house.*The house is a cube shaped building that is balanced and symmetrical.* The façade is made of smooth stone walls, with a low pitched hip roof, arched openings, and balconies.

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Features of Romanesque RevivalIf there was a house

with Romanesque Revival features there would be a heavy arch around the doorway which makes the entry look like a cave. It would have a corbel, which is a decorative bracket used to hold a mantle or large shelf. A chevron is a v shaped pattern that can be applied to a roof or above a doorway.

Features are: Round arches over windows and/or entryways; thick, cavernous entryways and window openings; thick masonry walls, rounded towers with conical roof; facades are asymmetrical; variable stone and brick façade. On elaborate examples, polychromatic facades with contrasting building materials. American architects experimented with the Romanesque in the 1840s and 1850s for churches and public buildings, using round arches, corbels and historically correct features such as chevrons and lozenges borrowed from the pre-Gothic architecture of Europe.

Arched Doorway

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- A Queen Anne style house has a front porch with lots of designs.- A Queen Anne house has many patterns.- Most of the windows on a Queen Anne house are stained glass.- Many of the Queen Anne houses have a pointy cone-shaped tower called a “Witches’ Cap”.- Almost all Queen Anne houses have elaborate chimneys.

A sun porch is a porch that is enclosed with glass windows. Dormers are multi-pane, double-hung windows with shutters. Fanlights are paneled doors with sidelights and topped with rectangular transoms.

A feature of Colonial Revival is a broken pediment on the doorway. This is a triangle on top of the door with an open top. A half-gambrel is a lower, steeper slope and an upper flatter one on each side of the roof.