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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.
22 lis 2023 · It is one of the earliest known examples of architect-designed Gothic Revival architecture, a style more often taken by local builders from pattern books published by the style’s proponents. The home was likely a pre-cursor to architect Joseph Wells later commission, the famous Roseland Cottage.
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.
28 kwi 2020 · One notable subset was Carpenter Gothic (because it translated medieval stonework into wood), a more practical and easily executed approach to the older stone style. The Delaware &Hudson Railroad’s original depot at Cambridge, Washington County, NY, is a classic example of Gothic.
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.
11 kwi 2016 · Miraculously, the great Gothic cathedral church of St Peter at York escaped the worst transgressions of both the Reformation and the Civil War, and so survived into the Georgian period more completely intact and with fewer major architectural losses or alterations to the original medieval fabric than perhaps any of the other English cathedrals.
title] Carpenter’s Gothic: an architectural style (often “carpenter gothic,” as at 123.36) popular the US and Britain during the Gothic Revival period of the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. It has been described as "the most visually playful and lively of all American architectural styles.” (Montgomery, G..
