Foursquare House With Attic

Best of all the high pitched roof of the house offers some great ceiling height in this room.

Foursquare house with attic.

American foursquare home additions third floor. Built ins such as bookcases and window seats were popular enhancements. Houses like this might be called free classic. The basic form of the structure of the house classifies it as an american foursquare.

Finished walk up attic. They were commonly built with the top few feet of the basement walls. Cube shape it s called a foursquare so the fact that the shape is a cube aka four walls that make a square makes sense right. Note the palladian style window and oval cameo after 1915 most examples could be termed colonial revival.

Duh the exterior of a foursquare is cube shaped with two full floors plus an attic i. The layout of tis space is very simple but spacious. From my amateur perspective it makes sense to raise the roof a bit and renovate the attic into usable space. The style used on the other details can vary greatly.

Those building planbook or kit houses could order room dividing colonnades and kitchen cabinets. There is a large attic that when finished the home could be considered a 2 story. But it was in pretty shabby shape. Built in 1915 the symmetrical house had the classic configuration of four rooms downstairs and four up plus a dormered attic under a hipped roof and an ample front porch.

This part of the house is currently used for storage but it s conditioned and comfortable and we can t wait for it to one day be an amazing bedroom.