June is starting out cool here, like Howard Dean! Temps in the high 80's, maybe up to 90, are projected.
To judge from the siding on the house next to the mill that you used for the previous thread, listener, I should estimate that the house (or at least the siding) dates from about 1900 to 1920. Three-lap siding was very popular then. Ship-lap was very popular in the late 19th Century, and two-lap became popular some time in the 1920's, into the 1940's. If I remember correctly.
Thanks, Alan! Most houses here have wood siding. Some people use vinyl but most here don't care for it. Our house is cedar shake (cedar shingled siding)…like is often used on Cape Cod and the Islands off Boston.
I should expect there would be some good examples of Carpenter Gothic houses in Vermont; it’s a rare style out here because the area was built up a little too late. Come to think of it, in poking about the Internet to double-check my recollection about the years three-lap siding was popular, I happened across a photo of a large Carpenter Gothic house in New York with cast iron siding! I only knew that from commercial architecture.
Brick construction is far less common out here than in (at least some) places Back East because wood was generally cheap and abundant, but brick expensive. A lot of Down Easters settled in the area where I grew up along the Northern California coast, and the house styles reflect it.
Nothing notable in the Central Valley Ag Report today; about the same as two weeks ago.
I suppose that with cast iron siding the house ought to be called Gothic Revival rather than Carpenter Gothic… And I wasn’t able to find a check on my recollection of siding styles vs. age of houses.
June is starting out cool here, like Howard Dean! Temps in the high 80's, maybe up to 90, are projected.
ReplyDeleteTo judge from the siding on the house next to the mill that you used for the previous thread, listener, I should estimate that the house (or at least the siding) dates from about 1900 to 1920. Three-lap siding was very popular then. Ship-lap was very popular in the late 19th Century, and two-lap became popular some time in the 1920's, into the 1940's. If I remember correctly.
--Alan
Thanks, Alan! Most houses here have wood siding. Some people use vinyl but most here don't care for it. Our house is cedar shake (cedar shingled siding)…like is often used on Cape Cod and the Islands off Boston.
DeleteSometime I should photograph the architecture in Burlington! Lots of Victorian houses and other very classic designs.
ReplyDeleteI should expect there would be some good examples of Carpenter Gothic houses in Vermont; it’s a rare style out here because the area was built up a little too late. Come to think of it, in poking about the Internet to double-check my recollection about the years three-lap siding was popular, I happened across a photo of a large Carpenter Gothic house in New York with cast iron siding! I only knew that from commercial architecture.
DeleteBrick construction is far less common out here than in (at least some) places Back East because wood was generally cheap and abundant, but brick expensive. A lot of Down Easters settled in the area where I grew up along the Northern California coast, and the house styles reflect it.
Nothing notable in the Central Valley Ag Report today; about the same as two weeks ago.
—Alan
I suppose that with cast iron siding the house ought to be called Gothic Revival rather than Carpenter Gothic… And I wasn’t able to find a check on my recollection of siding styles vs. age of houses.
Delete—Alan