Fifty-eight percent of all gambrel roofs were built in the 1910-1920s. According
to A FIELD GUIDE TO AMERICAN HOUSES, about 10 percent of all Colonial Revival
houses in the US have gambrel roofs. In the 1940s the Cape Ann style
houses
also used gambrel roofs.
Examine the map of gambrel roofs.
Compare this roof shape with
mansard
roofs.
Compare this roof shape with hipped
roofs.
