Style
Carpenter Gothic
Gothic shapes in wood: board-and-batten walls, pointed wooden windows, steep gables and fretwork bargeboards.
- When
- c. 1840s to 1900
- Where
- United States and Canada, especially small towns and the countryside
- Tell it apart
- Gothic Revival in stone or brick has the same shapes; here the material is wood throughout.
The tells
- Board-and-batten or clapboard walls
- Pointed-arch windows framed in wood
- Steep gables with decorated bargeboards
- A small wooden tower or belfry with a spire
- An open timber roof inside