Adirondack

Isaac Kremer/ January 18, 2019/ / 0 comments

The Adirondack style and the Great Camp were sprawling complexes intended as summer retreats in wilderness areas, with a rustic look, achieved through the use of stone, logs, and twigs used in their natural state. Stucco was also commonly used as a building material. The roof is often steeply sloping and may have ribbed-tin covering, shed roof, shed-roof dormers, and intersecting gables. Decorative features include half-timbering, bracketsplit shinglescorbeled log ends scroll-sawn rafter tail, rustic-work railing (rough twigs), rubblework chimney, saddle notch, recessed porch, rough-pole porch post, rubblework foundation, log siding, and exposed rafters. Typical windows are six-over-six double hung sash and paired windows. For more information, see The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture (1997), page 170-174. ()

Adirondack style, Adirondack Style, Great Camp
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