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2. Katrina Cottage - Wikipedia

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   Katrina Cottage. Katrina Cottages are small residential shelters designed and marketed in the United States in the wake of Hurricane Katrina (August 2005). They were designed as a response to the inadequacies of the trailers issued to flood victims by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The homes' designs attempt to fulfill the ...

3. List of house types - Wikipedia

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   A cottage is a small house, usually one or two stories in height, although the term is sometimes applied to larger structures. Cape Cod-style house or Cape: a style of a double-pile one-story cottage; low, broad with a steep side-gable roof to which dormers are often added to create a second story (in some locations, referred to as 1.5-story)

4. Asylum architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In the village plan, the institution was laid off in streets and avenues, and had the appearance of an ordinary village, each cottage having a flower garden in front, shade trees, etc. In either plan, there was conveniently located near the center of the plant an administration building, a hospital for the sick and those requiring special care ...

5. Cottages in Dover open for tenants. Dream of small ... - AOL

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   Cottages at Back River Road, 44 small, affordable homes in Dover, NH, welcomed its first tenants Thursday. ... All the cottages include a ground-floor bedroom, a kitchen and a living room, a ...

6. Cape Cod (house) - Wikipedia

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   Cape Cod (house) A Cape Cod house is a low, broad, single or double-story frame building with a moderately-steep-pitched gabled roof, a large central chimney, and very little ornamentation. Originating in New England in the 17th century, the simple symmetrical design was constructed of local materials to withstand the stormy weather of Cape Cod.

7. The Elms (Newport, Rhode Island) - Wikipedia

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   The Elms is a large mansion (sometimes facetiously called a "summer cottage") located at 367 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, completed in 1901.The architect Horace Trumbauer (1868–1938) designed it for the coal baron Edward Julius Berwind (1848–1936), taking inspiration from the 18th century Château d'Asnières in Asnières-sur-Seine, France.