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Chapin Park Local Historic District Guidebook <br />Architectural Styles <br />GOTHIC REVIVAL ~CARPENTER GOTHIC <br />Promoted by the writings of A.J. Downing in the 1840s, <br />the Gothic revival style entered Indiana’s domestic archi- <br />tecture in the 1840s until the 1860s. Gothic revival resi- <br />dences are distinguished by steeply pitched roofs often <br />with cross gables, one centered gable, or paired gables; <br />pointed arched windows or diamond paned windows; <br />either triangular or eared drip moldings above windows <br />and doors; and vergeboard or cross bracing under gables. Carpenter Gothic residences <br />employ vertical board and batten siding or horizontal clapboards. <br />ITALIANATE <br />Part of the Picturesque movement of the 1840s until the <br />1880s, the Italianate style was influenced by and reinter- <br />preted Italian villa architecture. The main features are <br />rather low-pitched hip or gabled roofs with single or paired <br />brackets and ornamented cornices; long windows with <br />hooded, bracketed or framed drip moldings; double leaf <br />entrances; and verandahs and porches with chamfered <br />posts or columns. Towers are also a notable aspect of this style. <br />STICK <br />The Stick style emerged from the picturesque ideals of A. <br />J. Downing and flourished in Victorian plan books from <br />the 1850s until the 1880s. The style remained fashionable <br />in South Bend through the later decades of the <br />Nineteenth Century. Stick style buildings typically have <br />a gabled roof, usually steeply pitched with intersecting <br />gables; overhanging eaves with exposed rafters, braces <br />and decorative trusses; square projecting bays and front porches. Constructed in wood, <br />the buildings have patterned wall surfaces with a variety of sidings, shingles and <br />stick-work that mimics medieval half-timbering. Stick elements were often applied to <br />Gabled-Ell and Gabled-T houses. <br />Page 7