THE SHINGLE STYLE, 1874–1914
he Shingle Style has variously been described as the first modern American house style, Richardsonian Romanesque done in shingles instead of stone, the first wave of the Colonial Revival, and as a subset of the Queen Anne Revival. A self-consciously vernacular style rendered by leading architects, it’s hard to pin down. The genre was born in New England but was popular in the Mid-Atlantic and influential in Chicago and, later, on the West Coast. It is
