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Salt box house front door in long roof side.
Features of a saltbox roof.
Saltbox roofs look like a patched gable style roof with two sides sloping outwards from a central ridge.
The pitched roof that slopes down to the first floor was first created to cover a lean to addition at the rear of the original house.
The style was first formed.
Built during the 17th and 18th centuries american saltbox houses were named after commonly used wooden salt containers from the colonial period.
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Saltbox homes can convey years of american colonial history in a single glance.
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In my own case the garage was front load so we could simply walk around on the sidewalk to a nice little porch ground level and go in the front door.
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Historic saltbox houses are easily identified by their signature one sided sloped rooflines and simple colonial facades.
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Neither was ever an issue for owners.
A saltbox home which takes its name from the resemblance to a wooden lidded box in which salt was once kept is identified by its asymmetrically long rear roof line.
The definitive feature of a saltbox house is its roof.
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I have owned and sold homes with a side front door.
They often include a symmetrical brick chimney too.
Originally named for the wooden salt containers commonplace in the era saltbox houses are typically built from wood and easily spotted by their long slanted rear roof.
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15 saltbox houses worth their salt popular in 17th and 18th century america for its ability to accommodate large families the saltbox house features a catslide roof that.