Two-Thirds Double-Pile Cottage
A 1- or 1 1/2-story structure with gable roof, this cottage is two rooms deep and one room wide with a side hall containing a staircase to an upper half-story. This plan is essentially the double-pile cottage reduced one-third in size. A flat-hipped roof version usually has a rear extension. This structure was very popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In New Jersey this type of dwelling, although often enlarged by a one-room deep lateral extension, is referred to as a Deep East Jersey. For late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century structures, see Glassie 1968a, 54. For Deep East Jersey, see Wacker 1971, 51, 53. (Jakle, 1989)