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The modern Southern/Country home can incorporate many different styles, but are generally characterized by hipped roofs (many with dormers) , wide front covered porches, and either clapboard siding or brick. There are many different classic styles which can be incorporated in a typical "Southern" style home: Plantation/Greek Revival/Antebellum: The most easily identified features of this type of building are the tall columns, most 2 stories high, which can be either only in the front or around the entire building, sometimes with a 2-storied porch. Most southern plantations were built off the ground with tall ceilings and had a central hallway (most with a grand staircase), and deep porches which offered shade and facilitated a cooling breeze in the hot, humid summers of the south. Most homes had low, hipped roofs with wide overhangs and were built of brick, although some were built of wood siding. Many modern beach homes are a variation of this same style. Greek Revival homes had the same general characterizations of the Plantation/Antebellum home, but usually had a gabled pediment in the front of the home. Acadian/Louisiana/French Colonial: Steeply-pitched gable roofs extending over wide, wrap-around porches, usually raised on pilings or high piers. Chiefly found in South Louisiana, but the style has spread throughout the southern coastal states. The Shotgun style, mostly found in the New Orleans area of Louisiana, was a house only one room wide, but several rooms deep, with a gables front porch. The doors lined up down the center of the home, to let a cooling breeze flow through the house. They were called "shotgun" houses because of the fact that a bullet shot through the front door could go through the house and out the back door without hitting anything else! Farmhouse: Usually 2-stories high, with a wrap-around porch covered with a shed-style roof, then a low-pitched hipped or gabled roof above the second floor. Some are 1 1/2 storied with a steeply-pitched gable roof, with the second floor in the "attic" part of the home with dormers for light and ventilation. Most are built with clapboard siding and are usually raised off the ground with a central hallway and high ceilings, to faciliate cooling breezes in the summer. |
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