House style

Category: General | May 14, 2005

Can anyone tell me what style my house is?

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm not an expert, but I'd say your house had lines reminiscent of a Craftsman style. Mostly for the overhanging eves, the dormers, and the front-porch columns.

I think I read that you stated this is a "double wide." Does that mean it is a manufactured home?

It would appear that your house is a circa 1910- 1925 one and a half story kit home.
Sears was the first company to offer home kits through their catalogue and many companies copied this idea. All the materials would fit on a box car and would be shipped by rail to the purchaser. Often a developer would buy several adjacent plots and build three or four homes at the same time with slight variations in design.

I would say the other estimates sound about right. That looks like aluminum siding on there. My guess would be shingles underneath. Nice house.

Nick: This house is not a double wide. One of the first homes we looked at was a double wide.

Gary: I think you're right about the house. There is a house next to ours that is built the same way, except it's turned 90 degrees.

Grex: Yes, it's aluminum siding on the house. As for what is underneath, it's wood siding, not shingles.

The American Bungalow forum

http://americanbungalowmagazine.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?

has a section where people post their houses, and try to figure out what style. There are 2 or 3 houses almost identical to ours in our neighbourhood. I'm not sure if they are kit houses, a lot of the cuts in the attic seem hand cut, so I'm thinking it's not a kit. We found the age of our house by seeing when the water was hooked up.