| The prevailing style of the roughly 3,800 neighboring houses features large gables and verandas, with porticos, pediments, and glossy interiors. |
| Families and friends gather on their verandas in the evening for friendly games of checkers and cards. |
| Terraces, porches, and verandas are key features, especially away from the street. |
| Both styles feature shallow and sloping tile roofs and one or more verandas and porches. |
| There is faded grandeur in its crumbling, mouldy mansions with their jalousie-fronted windows, porches and verandas. |
| They can just sit back on their fancy verandas sipping mint juleps while a cavalcade of birds flaunt themselves in succession. |
