clapboard houses
Overlapping plank siding
Clapboard houses are buildings with exteriors covered in long, narrow wooden boards installed horizontally, each overlapping the one below.
The style is characteristic of New England colonial architecture and remains common in American residential construction: The neighborhood was lined with white clapboard houses.
The overlapping design sheds water effectively.
- saltboxAsymmetrical colonial house style
- cedarDurable, fragrant conifer
- colonialOf occupied territories
- colonial historyRecord of empire-building
- weatherproofingProtection from outdoor conditions
historic preservation · historic district · 18th century · batten · repainting · weatherboard · Victorian · heritage homes · wood · shingles · Cape Cod · Georgian · trim · architectural history · rural America · shutters · front porch · farmhouse
- New EnglandMaine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut
- Rural sceneryrolling hills, meadows, pastures, farmhouses, barns
- Plymouth ColonyPlymouth Colony, Pilgrims, Mayflower, Mayflower Compact, 1620
- Bahamian architecturecolonial style, hurricane shutters, louvered windows, verandas, wraparound porches
- Coastalseashells, driftwood, waves, sand dollars, dunes
clapboard housesTudor houses
Medieval English architectural style
brownstones · chalets · row houses · half-timbered houses · townhouses
clapboard housesmodular homes
Dwellings made in sections
prefab homes · shipping container homes · yurts · mobile homes