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2. Buildings and architecture of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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   The shotgun house is a narrow domestic residence with doors at each end. This style of architecture developed in New Orleans and is the city's predominant house type. The earliest extant New Orleans shotgun house, at 937 St. Andrews St., was built in 1848. [citation needed] Typically, shotgun houses are one-story, narrow rectangular homes raised on brick piers. Most have a narrow porch covered ...

3. Modern architecture - Wikipedia

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   Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements. Modern architecture was based upon new and innovative technologies of construction (particularly the use of glass, steel, and concrete ); the principle functionalism (i.e. that form should follow ...

4. Palladian architecture - Wikipedia

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   Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). What is today recognised as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts of symmetry, perspective and the principles of formal classical architecture from ancient Greek and Roman traditions.

5. Jalousie window - Wikipedia

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   A jalousie window ( UK: / ˈdʒælʊziː /, US: / ˈdʒæləsiː / ), louvred window (Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom), jalousie, or jalosy [1] is a window composed of parallel glass, acrylic, or wooden louvres set in a frame. The louvres are joined onto a track so that they may be tilted open and shut in ...

6. Antebellum architecture - Wikipedia

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   The main exterior characteristics of antebellum architecture included huge pillars, a balcony that ran along the whole outside edge of the house creating a porch that offers shade and a sitting area, evenly spaced large windows, and big centered entrances at the front and rear of the house. [3] A hipped or gabled roof are characteristics of antebellum architecture and often feature a cupola ...

7. American Foursquare - Wikipedia

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   Wegeforth-Wucher house, Burlingame, San Diego. The American Foursquare (also American Four Square or American 4 Square) is an American house vernacular under the Arts and Crafts style popular from the mid-1890s to the late 1930s. A reaction to the ornate and mass-produced elements of the Victorian and other Revival styles popular throughout the ...