Double-Pile Cottage
A blank" >double—pile, 1- or 1 1/2-story target="_blank" >dwelling with glossary/pitched-roof/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="b4c1e196951abb0545db9948950c7b38" target="_blank" >gable roof, most eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century versions have two rooms paired on either side of a hallway/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="43f21155a583d11b2d6337154339819d" target="_blank" >central hallway (a). Chimney placement varies, with paired interior chimneys common. A flat hipped-roof/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="08b149cc56b8ed7b7d56c9c3b136bc36" target="_blank" >hipped roof version of this cottage was also popular. Twentieth-century structures only approximate traditional prototypes. The central hallway is reduced or eliminated, the front-door/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="c81d548fc47c42c64c4372f09365ec95" target="_blank" >front door frequently opening into the room-2/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="71818a4f62b4b6d5c29c1080c3d8646e" target="_blank" >living room (b). For eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century versions, see Swaim 1978, 40; Ieane and Purcell 1978, 53, 70. For twentieth-century structures, see Walker 1981, 113; McAlester and McAlester 1984, 98. (Jakle, 1989)