Dog-Trot House
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Built in the Southeast during the 19th century by pioneers, the Dogtrot House, also known as the dog-run and the possum-trot, was defined by two log cabins connected by a breezeway in the center of the house. The Dogtrot House was originally found in the pre- air conditioning era, and a significant aspect of it was that it allowed air to flow freely throughout the house. It was defined, typically, by having two bedrooms connected with one bathroom and a central hall that led into the breezeway. The Dogtrot House was also usually a one story house made out of logs, brick, and wood. The kitchen was usually separate from the bedroom due to intense heat and frequency of kitchen fires. People usually lived in Dogtrot homes during the summer because of the heat and humidity in the rural south before air conditioning. During the winter, residents would attach removable walls to the breezeway to block harsh winds.
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Highway House Type
The highway house is a great example of a vernacular home. From its traditional look to its gas pumps, the high way house screams rural America. These types of houses are generally found in the Mid-South West and North Eastern regions of the United States. They normally feature either wood siding or limestone walls. This type of house would generally be found in the 1920s’ to the 1950s’. Sadly within 30 years this style of home became obsolete due to the rise in commercial gas station chains such as Shell, Chevron, and Sinclair. Some of the more popular architectural traits of this style of this house include two main doors on the base floor. One for the family on either the side or back of the house, and the one behind the pumps for the station customers. There was also multiple windows throughout the home. Aswell these homes generally contained an overhang of some sort, along with two stories. These are some of the reasons that the Highway House is a perfect example of a Vernacular home.
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Stack House Type
A stack house is a very popular vernacular house and is also called “one over one” or “one up one down,” the stack house is an extension of the one room. Usually the stack house has its entry centered between two windows on the lower floor centered between two windows on the second floor.
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Saddlebag House Type
The Saddlebag House was created in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the south east of the United States. In the book "Common Houses in America's "Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley" the three authors claim that the houses were called saddlebag as they were originally one room wide houses but were given an extra room to the side of it for more space. They were popular in the hills of central and east Alabama, and the hills and long leaf pine belt of south Alabama. This house was not used as a typical living quarters for the family, but were used as tenement housing, slave quarters, and outbuildings.
Typically, the house featured two-rooms with a central chimney and one or two front doors with little variation in style from region to region. The Saddlebag 's exterior usually has two different building materials such as log on the original one room and weatherboarding in the additional room. Often the Saddlebag's one room addition would be constructed of different material than the original one room house. An example being an original log one room house having a side room addition built with weatherboarding. Also the roof was gable-roofed and was made out of metal. The gable roof was used to keep rain from building up at the top of the roof and causing water damage on the outside or inside of the house.
This meant that the house now was two rooms wide along the front facade while still remaining one room deep. The addition was the "saddlebag." These particular houses reflected the settlement patterns of late 1700's to early 1900's in the southeastern United States. Their popularity eventually diminished and were disappearing from the landscape due to new development or abandonment because they were often very cheap to make and not too costly to destroy.
Typically, the house featured two-rooms with a central chimney and one or two front doors with little variation in style from region to region. The Saddlebag 's exterior usually has two different building materials such as log on the original one room and weatherboarding in the additional room. Often the Saddlebag's one room addition would be constructed of different material than the original one room house. An example being an original log one room house having a side room addition built with weatherboarding. Also the roof was gable-roofed and was made out of metal. The gable roof was used to keep rain from building up at the top of the roof and causing water damage on the outside or inside of the house.
This meant that the house now was two rooms wide along the front facade while still remaining one room deep. The addition was the "saddlebag." These particular houses reflected the settlement patterns of late 1700's to early 1900's in the southeastern United States. Their popularity eventually diminished and were disappearing from the landscape due to new development or abandonment because they were often very cheap to make and not too costly to destroy.
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Plantation House Type
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The Octagon Rural House Type
The octagon house type is a house that was made in the mid 1800's from a variety of materials according to different regions in the U.S., but was mainly used in the eastern part of the U.S with materials like wood and concrete. It is characterized by its octagonal shape, its low pitched roof, wide overhanging eaves, a partial or fully encircling porch, and sometimes an octagonal cupola. Used originally in different forms by ancient civilizations such as the Greeks due to its simple characteristics, the octagon house became popular in the U.S during the mid 1800's by a man named Orson Fowler. During the mid 1800's, Fowler promoted this style in his book The Octagon House: A House for All due to a sudden realization of how effectively it could be used. Using principles from ancient civilizations’ original versions of the house, Fowler stated the ideas that altered these principles for popularity throughout the U.S. He stated that the house could be easily lit and ventilated, and could be easily built with a variety of materials very cheaply, but especially in his cheap gravel wall construction method. This was revolutionary to many different people as a cheap and effective house could be made for everyone.
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The Telescope House Type
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"I" Type House
The “I” Type House known as I house or (two over two) is a house usually in the rural areas (Iowa, Indiana, Illinois). The house consists of a one room deep, two story tall, and two room wide base. The house is usually constructed of material such as stone,wood, or brick. The basic design of the I house was created by several scholars kniffen, glassie, and noble. The i house is a revolutionary house with a great design.
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The One Room House
The one room house is a very small house due to its structure it can be made out of log or bricks. It also contains a chimney on the side of the house. It also has many names, it can go by the on room house, single pen house, basic cottage, and basic tidewater. The house was originated in a working farm in Tennessee.
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