A garrison is an architectural style of house typically two stories with the second story overhanging in the front.
Garrison roof characteristics.
The façade is generally symmetrical which gives it formality and balance.
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.
Colonial revivals typically have a rectangular footprint and may be one one and a half or two stories.
A smaller georgian home might have a simple flat front but even the larger manor houses keep to the symmetry.
Like a gambrel s bowed out two plane roof creates much more head room garrison style houses are characterized by extended second floor space.
Usually use generally box shaped two rooms deep sometimes this character will be modified in projecting wings.
The garrison style is a two story.
The traditional ornamentation is four carved drops pineapple strawberry or acorn shape below the overhang.
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.
Garrison style architecture architecture conclusion purely decorative overhang called a jetty.
Garrisons usually have an exterior chimney at the end.
There is something to the roof it has flat roof with balustrade.
The garrison colonial house is representative.
It is rectangular with two stories.
It is rectangular with two stories.
The garrison an attractive house that includes a number of special features in a modern presentation.
The front door is smack in the middle and if there are six windows on one side there are six windows on the other.
The cornices of the federal building are embellished.
They may have either a hipped or gabled roof with a medium pitch.
Central doorway symmetrical windows.
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.
