Foursquare House With Attic

Houses like this might be called free classic.

Foursquare house with attic.

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. Best of all the high pitched roof of the house offers some great ceiling height in this room. Duh the exterior of a foursquare is cube shaped with two full floors plus an attic i. The american foursquare house is a type of residential architecture or style that generally has the following features.

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. With the american foursquare s style of a large but low attic i thought that i would find a more examples of third floor or dormer type renovations. From my amateur perspective it makes sense to raise the roof a bit and renovate the attic into usable space. The layout of tis space is very simple but spacious.

Note the palladian style window and oval cameo after 1915 most examples could be termed colonial revival. Finished walk up attic. There is a large attic that when finished the home could be considered a 2 story. American foursquare home additions third floor.

The basic form of the structure of the house classifies it as an american foursquare. The form the homes are usually two stories. They were commonly built with the top few feet of the basement walls. Those building planbook or kit houses could order room dividing colonnades and kitchen cabinets.

The style used on the other details can vary greatly.