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Carpenter Gothic, also sometimes called Carpenter's Gothic or Rural Gothic, is a North American architectural style-designation for an application of Gothic Revival architectural detailing and picturesque massing applied to wooden structures built by house-carpenters.
Carpenter Gothic is an eclectic and naive use of the most superficial and obvious motifs of Gothic decoration. Turrets, spires, and pointed arches were applied, in many instances with abandon, and there was usually no logical relationship of ornamentation to the structure of the house.
7 kwi 2023 · Reimagining aspects of Gothic architecture in wood, Carpenter Gothic style found a natural home in small community churches but was also prominent in many homes across the country.
Carpenter Gothic, also sometimes called Carpenter's Gothic or Rural Gothic, is a North American architectural style-designation for an application of Gothic Revival architectural detailing and picturesque massing applied to wooden structures built by house-carpenters.
The iconic painting American Gothic depicts one famous example of Carpenter Gothic architecture, illustrating the more plain end of the spectrum but clearly displaying the style’s peaked windows and steep gables.
3 wrz 2024 · The three sub-styles of Gothic from the medieval period—Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular—were all used in nineteenth-century Gothic architecture, but the middle style, the Decorated, became the most common in churches.
25 lis 2011 · Carpenter Gothic, sometimes also Carpenter's Gothic, is the term used for both ecclesiastical and domestic architecture of the 19th century wherein, through the medium of wood, elements of the Gothic Revival style were employed.
