| 1900s-1930s | Tudor Revival | 2 stories |
Tudor
Revival is
also called Elizabethan and Half-Timbered.
Whatever these houses
are called they
are another example of the Revival styles which were popular in the
early
20th century. Half-timbering was characteristic of Medieval buildings
when the beams held the buildings up and the spaces between them were filled
with plaster. But in the U.S.
half-timbering is only a decorative covering
of frame construction. Yet these were usually very expensive houses
with their massive sculptured chimneys, reddish
bricks, and
stucco, complicated
peaked roofs, and small leaded glass
windows. A very good
example
of a Tudor Revival is located on Marston Avenue. What is architecturally distinctive about this
house?
Most Tudor Revival houses have these features:
2 stories
complicated peaked roofs
massive sculptured
chimneys
reddish bricks and stucco
small leaded glass windows
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Created by Brandy Reilly, 6 June 1997