Italianate hipped cottage

The Italianate version of the hipped cottage is one of the oldest subtypes of the period under study. Italianate design predates and postdates the Civil War. Early Italian styles tend toward the Tuscan, which usually includes a pronounced tower. The vernacular hipped cottage is more generally Italian. It has a strong vertical orientation centered on vertical alignment between stories, including multistory bay windows and elaborate design schemes on the axis of the entrance. The roof profile is low, which reinforces the upward thrust of the facade, and many cottages are topped by a belvedere, which helps to extend the building visually. The vernacular Italianate is an ornamented style: it uses brackets or modillions and quoins to articulate the edges of forms; moldings, pronounced lintels, and sills to add texture and articulate the fenestration; and brackets, pendants, and cut or turned pieces to ornament porches and other entrances…