Two-Thirds Double-Pile House
A 2- or 2 1/2-story structure with gable roof, this house is two rooms deep and one room wide with a side hall containing a staircase (a). In essence, this plan is the double-pile house reduced one-third in size. Such reduction accommodated the classical Georgian house to a narrow ur- ban lot, although the plan also became popular in rural Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Rural farmhouses were often enlarged through lateral extensions: appendages slightly set back from the line of the main house facade (b). Gable roofs predominated, but low hip roofs were common also. In twentieth-century derivatives, the side hall is reduced or eliminated with the front door sometimes opening into the living room (c). Glassie 1968a, 54; Glassie 1972, 37; Lewis 1975, 6; Walker 1981, 75. (Jakle, 1989)