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Rooftops

by on May 28, 2009

The Bootleggers by Edward Hopper held only one point of interest for me: “What do you call that kind of roof?” When we built our first home, our builder friend told us that the roof line determines a great deal of the cost. Of course, after that we chose 

a basic gabled roof. Angles and pitches add as much practical functionality as style. Here are the basic lines and some more roofs in art, literature, movies, history and more.

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Anne of Green Gables house with obviously, a gabled roofline.

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The Addams Family House with a Mansard roofline supposedly inspired by Charles Addams’ boyhood home, also with a Mansard roofline.

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House in Chicago sports a low slung hipped roofline

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The oldest surviving saltbox house in America is Hoxie House in Cape Cod. This is the back side of the saltbox roofline. The house dates back to the 1600’s.

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The house of Amityville is basically a Dutch Colonial with a gambrel roofline. Some experts maintain that the gambrel style is a combination of many European styles.

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Photo: nothingliving.com

A flat roofline. Not famous but a cool house. Tilt it and you have a shed roofline.

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