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Saltbox house with side door, Summer St., Ipswich, Massachusetts, November 2014
What is a saltbox house? Named for the shape of the container salt once came in, these homes have a sloped roof that extends farther down on one side.
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Dating back to the 1600s, saltbox houses remain simple, traditional, and steeped in history.
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Always intrigued by eighteenth-century architecture, Mark Harbold designed a New England saltbox house as a mechanical drafting project when he was a senior in high school. Twenty-two years later he and his wife, Lorraine, built it. It looks like a Connecticut original, down to the weathered brown paint and faded red door and window sashes—except
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The superinsulated home that I designed and built for my family of three in Greenfield, Massachusetts has been comfortable for the entire year and serves as an example of successful design for our climate. We moved in to our new home in February 2012. Modest in size, our home measures 26 feet by 32 feet and has 1,500 square feet of living space, with two full floors plus a partial third floor tucked into the slopes of the cathedral ceiling. In order to decrease the overall volume while…
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I love so many architectural styles, so it’s impossible for me to have just one dream home. It’s all about location: a brownstone in the city, a bungalow on a tree-lined street, a cottage on the sea, a farmhouse on the open plain, a cabin in the woods, a villa on the coast. I could happily live in […]
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I live in a saltbox colonial. When you come to my door, you will look for the doorbell. It isn't there. The man who built our house loved early American architecture. He incorporated many period-correct elements, like multiple fireplaces, wide-plank floors, and mullioned windows. But no overhead lig
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The two white houses were built in 1912 and 1914 on a remote property in the fishing community of Salvage, Newfoundland, Canada.
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Vacation home in East Hampton, NY ...
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