The next roof-form, built from early colonial days, and popular a century ago, was what was known as the gambrel roof. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
Clicking on "gambrel" will take the visitor to a results list including all the photographs with the word "gambrel" in their description. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Massachusetts, oftener with the quaint "gambrel" of Rhode Island. From Wordnik.com. [Oldport Days] Reference
The gambrel roof is shingled, descends low and has dormer windows. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890] Reference
It features an earthbag stem wall, strawbale walls, and a pallet truss gambrel roof. From Wordnik.com. [Straw Bale House Construction and Natural Building Internship] Reference
"We didn't want the house to appear too tall, so we created gambrel roofs on both sides," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Couple's oceanfront house on Bethany Beach is a home for all seasons] Reference
The house itself is very old, with little windows and a gambrel roof, and a well-sweep in the rear. From Wordnik.com. [Polly and the Princess] Reference
Holmes was brought up very simply in the old gambrel-roofed house, half parsonage and half farm house. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Over yonder, near the site of the first log meeting-house, is pointed out the gambrel-roofed house of General. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884] Reference
It is of wood, two and a half stories high, with twelve dormer windows, a gambrel roof, and a large two-story L. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference
The master bedroom and a guestroom extend under the gambrel roofs at the rear to private decks facing the ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Couple's oceanfront house on Bethany Beach is a home for all seasons] Reference
From the beach, the gambrel roofs framing the ends of the house rise from the sand dunes like twin mountain peaks. From Wordnik.com. [Couple's oceanfront house on Bethany Beach is a home for all seasons] Reference
Thank you. deer hunting hoist gambrel club titan airship passwords smoked plexiglass jeep liberty winch mount trike with a top. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls, The Collectors, and The Life] Reference
In the years since they were in my life, I have found that the old gambrel roofed barns capture both my attention and my imagination. From Wordnik.com. [my favorite architecture part 1] Reference
In one of these old houses we find an attempt to modify the gambrel into the hipped roof, a type which became highly developed in the latter half of the eighteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
Our old settlers made steep gambrel roofs to shed the rain. From Wordnik.com. [Shelters, Shacks and Shanties] Reference
Er fed the stock, er butchered, er swung up a gambrel - pin. From Wordnik.com. [Riley Farm-Rhymes] Reference
With the gambrel-roof, and the gable looking westward to the green. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 06: Poems from the Breakfast Table Series] Reference
It was two storied with a high gambrel roof making in effect a third story. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of Boyhood] Reference
It is a square wooden edifice, with gambrel roof and deep-set window-frames. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Bad Boy] Reference
That's it, that old-fashioned, gambrel-roofed house on the rise by the wharf. From Wordnik.com. [Keziah Coffin] Reference
The old gambrel-roofed meeting-house was built in 1792, and still stands in good order. From Wordnik.com. [The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation] Reference
Close to our ancient gambrel-roofed house is the dwelling of pleasant old Neighbor Walrus. From Wordnik.com. [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
It was quite an old frame-building, two stories high, with a gambrel roof and tall chimneys. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home] Reference
The house they lived in was of the small, gambrel-roofed cottage pattern, after the shape of. From Wordnik.com. [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
So it was the other day after my reminiscences of the old gambrel-roofed house and its visitors. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
Through the gambrel peaks rose two great chimneys, and I wondered what two chimneys could be for. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of Boyhood] Reference
The old man slowly dying up beyond in that deserted, gambrel-roofed house would Forget and forgive. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories] Reference
Built in the early 1900s, the brick house has a gambrel roof, Palladian window and large front porch. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
Best Interior Shot went to Eric Hunt for his photo of the interior of a gambrel-roof barn in Interlaken. From Wordnik.com. [theithacajournal.com -] Reference
The gambrel roof had a certain grace of outline, especially when joined with lean-tos and other additions. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
I once saw a large painting of a fox struggling with a trap which held him by the hind leg, above the gambrel-joint!. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Sunshine] Reference
A fox would be as likely to be caught above the gambrel-joint as a farmer would to drive his team from the off-side. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Sunshine] Reference
It is in largely original condition of 2 1/2 stories with dormers, double splayed keystone lintels, and a gambrel roof. From Wordnik.com. [New York Daily Photo] Reference
Gray gambrel-roofed houses stand out here and there, with thick-throated chimneys that seem to hold the whole together. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Hawthorne] Reference
And often those with the gambrel prolonged the strain, being provokingly slow, in hopes to make the holder drop his burden. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller] Reference
Over to the left the moon was peeping above a gambrel roof and the near side was steely blue up to the shadow of the purple chimney. From Wordnik.com. [Stubble] Reference
The low farmhouse, which showed its gambrel-roof and square brick chimney a few rods down the northern road, was a relic of colonial days. From Wordnik.com. [Days Off And Other Digressions] Reference
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