The front door is smack in the middle and if there are six windows on one side there are six windows on the other.
Garrison roof characteristics.
A smaller georgian home might have a simple flat front but even the larger manor houses keep to the symmetry.
There is something to the roof it has flat roof with balustrade.
Garrisons usually have an exterior chimney at the end.
Garrison style architecture architecture conclusion purely decorative overhang called a jetty.
A garrison is an architectural style of house typically two stories with the second story overhanging in the front.
The floor joists are cantilevered to extend the second floor out up to three feet beyond the top of the first floor wall.
As mentioned above one of the defining characteristics for georgian homes is their symmetry.
It is rectangular with two stories.
Colonial revivals typically have a rectangular footprint and may be one one and a half or two stories.
The garrison colonial house is representative.
This style is distinguished by a second story overhanging the long side of the house and below that overhang there are sometimes found a set of four decorative carvings such as pineapples or acorns.
In early years this may have been used to provide some shelter to street level stalls.
Central doorway symmetrical windows.
The garrison style is a two story.
They may have either a hipped or gabled roof with a medium pitch.
The traditional ornamentation is four carved drops pineapple strawberry or acorn shape below the overhang.
Usually use generally box shaped two rooms deep sometimes this character will be modified in projecting wings.
The distinguishing characteristic is the 2nd story overhang in the front.
The cornices of the federal building are embellished.
O central chimney usually larger than cape cod o tapering gambrel roof encloses an attic that is often converted into extra rooms o house with simple lines o sound construction o a feel of colonial atmosphere.
The garrison an attractive house that includes a number of special features in a modern presentation.
Nov 5 2013 the origins of the garrison home can be traced back to england where this style of house was called a two story english overhang because the second story overhangs the first.
