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The brick and stone courthouse with gambrel roofs, built in 1903, has some venerable old jacaranda trees for shade.
If a gambrel roof home had a third floor, it was used for bedrooms and storage.
My husband and I are building a workshop and we want a gambrel roof to house various woodworking and craft projects.
Besides its unique appearance a gambrel roof also serves to maximize the usable floor space in the attic.
When you create this combination of shed roofs and gambrel roofs you get into a situation where the roofs join in a very complicated manner.
Though homes with gambrel roofs are popularly called Dutch Colonial, there is debate over the origins of the roof style.
His five-bay building, with its glazed header Flemish bond brick facade had a gambrel roof typical of local vernacular architecture.
The home is two stories with a gambrel roof and a covered porch we enjoy year-round.
A glance upward through the ceiling area reveals the huge cross timbers, and the complex joinery of the gambrel roof system.
This one has a gambrel roof, wide shed roof dormers, and a shed roof over the porch.
Others have steep gambrel roofs or hipped roofs, with or without porches.
Only in later periods, when Queen Anne was superseded by Colonial Revival and Colonial Imitation, did gambrel roofs become synonymous with Dutch architecture.
Michigan is known for its large barns built in the late 1800s, with gambrel roofs featuring lower, steeper slopes an upper, flatter ones on each side, he explains.
Between the 1760's and 1770's the gambrel roofs fell out of favor and were converted into a second story and a gable roof with or without dormers.
This mostly stone two-story house has a Dutch gambrel hipped roof.
His own residence is slightly larger, with a gambrel roof that gives it the appearance of a barn.
The night sky is visible through both the glass front walls and five skylights set in the gambrel roof.
The barn is a good example of the double-pitched gambrel roof design that was perhaps the most popular style of barn on the Canadian prairies.
The gambrel roof is a shape long associated with the traditional North American barn.
The roof of the château is covered with a gambrel roof of roofing stones and slates.
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The house, a two-story wooden building with a gambrel roof, is still standing.
Later came the more pretentious hall, typical of the gambrel roof house, that enjoyed so long a period of popularity.
Two large windows, one in each end of the gambrel roof, afforded light and air.
The gambrel roof appeared before the eighteenth century and was commonly used in New England farmhouses.
It has a gambrel roof, and is on the left when the train is going westward.
The gambrel or Octagonal Roof, and consists of two eight and two nine inch boards thirty-four inches long.
The Star and the Crescent have fitted up one room under the gambrel very tastefully.
The building itself is a stern, dignified, two-story house with a gambrel roof.
And often those with the gambrel prolonged the strain, being provokingly slow, in hopes to make the holder drop his burden.
It is a square wooden edifice, with gambrel roof and deep-set window-frames.
The next roof-form, built from early colonial days, and popular a century ago, was what was known as the gambrel roof.
It is a low building, with a gambrel roof and a huge chimney.
We chose a gambrel roof, which yielded more upstairs living space than a steeply-pitched roof.
The opposite end is very different, and has a hipped or gambrel gable.
The gambrel roof is shingled, descends low and has dormer windows.
Or the second buck, a smaller eight-pointer stashed in the shade, waiting his turn on the gambrel.
The Barn is approximately 36-feet wide by 91-feet long with a conventional gambrel roof.
Dead deer were hung by the back legs, which were spread using a gambrel.
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