Historic Renovation
A historic renovation project showcasing traditional architectural elements including dark lap siding, crisp white trim, dormers, and a prominent corner turret.
- What we like about this project
- The central oval medallion detail on the second-floor gable end punctuates the asymmetrical composition.
Materials
- wood-siding
- asphalt-shingle
- glass
- painted-wood-trim
Visual identifiers
- corner-turret
- wrap-around-porch
- dark-lap-siding
- white-trim
Style tags
- traditional
- historic-revival
- vernacular
Visual tags
- historic-renovation
- residential-scale
- traditional-detailing
- corner-lot
- porch
- Geometry
- Complex multi-gabled massing featuring a prominent corner octagonal turret, projecting bays, and a wrap-around porch breaking down the building scale.
- Facade system
- Lap siding with articulated corner boards, framed window openings, and open porch balustrades.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame construction with conventional platform framing.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential or institutional scale, pedestrian-focused at the wraparound porch level.
- Lighting
- Clear daylight casting soft shadows across the facade and revealing the dimensionality of the trim work and porch columns.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, established neighborhood feel combined with meticulous architectural preservation.
- Environmental context
- Urban corner lot setting with paved asphalt streets, crosswalk markings, and surrounding context buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The deep porch provides a shaded threshold between the public street corner and the main building entrance, creating a welcoming transitional zone.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic window placements and gabled dormers balance the complex asymmetrical massing.
- Style reading
- Traditional historic revival architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential or adaptive reuse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- wood-siding, asphalt-shingle, glass, painted-wood-trim
- Visual identifiers
- corner-turret, wrap-around-porch, dark-lap-siding, white-trim
- Style tags
- traditional, historic-revival, vernacular
- Visual tags
- historic-renovation, residential-scale, traditional-detailing, corner-lot, porch
- Geometry
- Complex multi-gabled massing featuring a prominent corner octagonal turret, projecting bays, and a wrap-around porch breaking down the building scale.
- Facade system
- Lap siding with articulated corner boards, framed window openings, and open porch balustrades.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame construction with conventional platform framing.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential or institutional scale, pedestrian-focused at the wraparound porch level.
- Lighting
- Clear daylight casting soft shadows across the facade and revealing the dimensionality of the trim work and porch columns.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, established neighborhood feel combined with meticulous architectural preservation.
- Environmental context
- Urban corner lot setting with paved asphalt streets, crosswalk markings, and surrounding context buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The deep porch provides a shaded threshold between the public street corner and the main building entrance, creating a welcoming transitional zone.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic window placements and gabled dormers balance the complex asymmetrical massing.
- Style reading
- Traditional historic revival architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential or adaptive reuse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture