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designerjkf44
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SDR
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I was "built" in '42, too, so I should know this. Let's see. . .
I wish there were more views. I don't see much that couldn't be original, including the colors. What is the siding now ? Vinyl ? It would originally have been wood shingle, or wood lapped siding ("clapboard," pronounced clabbord). The shingle would have been 5 or 6 inches "to the weather" (exposure, or coursing); clapboard maybe 4 to 6 inches. The shingles might have been red cedar, painted or not. The clapboard would be painted, except in very rare instances. The trim would have been white, or possibly cream or another soft light color; the body could have been anything from white to dark green or gray. The roof would have been red or white cedar shingles or composition roofing, in black, green, or a darkish red. White cedar turns silver, red cedar turns brown.
The house may well have had shutters on the windows. These would be frame and panel, or possible louvered or half-louvered; the panels could have had a small decorative cut-out. Color, in order of popularity: mid to dark green; black; red.
Old House Journal is a magazine devoted to generic American styles from Colonial to Craftsman to Spanish Revival; there have been articles on everything from exterior color schemes to bathroom fixtures, each appropriate to a place or period. Your house owes its features and details to the earliest of American residential types, dating to the Colonial period and to English precedents. But it is a quintessential American home of the twentieth century, found in almost any part of the country in mid-century, particularly on the northern half of the East Coast.
http://www.oldhousejournal.com/
SDR
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phansford
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| Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 5:39 am Post subject: |
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| SDR wrote: | | I was "built" in '42, too, so I should know this. |
Excellent advise and I think SDR is pretty much on target on materials and colors.
I would recommend you pay a visit to the local Historical Society. They probably have photos of these houses or there will be someone there who can tell you what the houses looked like. You would be surprised at the source of information you can find at your local historical society. They have become the default local archive for our nation.
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