Some comments on this home in an old home hunter blog identified this home as an Italianate Victorian. While the blog administrator insisted it was Stick Victorian. The home seems to include and is missing elements of both styles. Based on the book; A Field Guide to American Houses 1st edition . (the key). Present Italianate - low roof pitch and hip, bracketed and boxed roof wall junction, copula roof elaboration, window bracketed tops, window pairs Stick - windows bracketed Missing Italianate - arches, pediments, classic porch columns, quoins, pilasters Stick - patterned stick-work on walls, steep roof pitch, trussed gables, open eves, dormers Exceptions - turned porch columns, beaded horizontal siding, no spindles, corbels, or spandrils The revised 2nd edition of the book discusses the difference between Stick and Italianate out on the "West Coast" (California - i.e. San Francisco row house) which includes some more detail on the charact...
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