The façade is generally symmetrical which gives it formality and balance.
Garrison roof characteristics.
They may have either a hipped or gabled roof with a medium pitch.
The traditional ornamentation is four carved drops pineapple strawberry or acorn shape below the overhang.
A smaller georgian home might have a simple flat front but even the larger manor houses keep to the symmetry.
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.
The garrison colonial house is representative.
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.
Colonial revivals typically have a rectangular footprint and may be one one and a half or two stories.
Central doorway symmetrical windows.
A garrison is an architectural style of house typically two stories with the second story overhanging in the front.
As mentioned above one of the defining characteristics for georgian homes is their symmetry.
Garrisons usually have an exterior chimney at the end.
It is rectangular with two stories.
Usually use generally box shaped two rooms deep sometimes this character will be modified in projecting wings.
The front door is smack in the middle and if there are six windows on one side there are six windows on the other.
There is something to the roof it has flat roof with balustrade.
O central chimney usually larger than cape cod o tapering gambrel roof encloses an attic that is often converted into extra rooms o house with simple lines o sound construction o a feel of colonial atmosphere.
The floor joists are cantilevered to extend the second floor out up to three feet beyond the top of the first floor wall.
Like a gambrel s bowed out two plane roof creates much more head room garrison style houses are characterized by extended second floor space.
It is rectangular with two stories.
In early years this may have been used to provide some shelter to street level stalls.
The cornices of the federal building are embellished.
The distinguishing characteristic is the 2nd story overhang in the front.
