This article is about the architectural style. For the William Gaddis novel, see Carpenter's Gothic.
Aaron Ferrey House, Kent, Ohio, an example of Downing's Form IIIGrace Episcopal Church (Georgetown, Colorado)Springside in Poughkeepsie, New YorkChrist Church, Fort Meade, FloridaOak Hill Cottage, Mansfield, Ohio: Carpenter Gothic trim on a brick house in the manner of A.J. Davis's Rural ResidencesThe Seth House in Albuquerque, New Mexico – Built in 1882
Carpenter Gothic, also sometimes called Carpenter's Gothic or Rural Gothic, is a North American architectural style-designation for an application of Gothic Revival architectural detailing and picturesque massing applied to wooden structures built by house-carpenters. The abundance of North American timber and the carpenter-built vernacular architectures based upon it made a picturesque improvisation upon Gothic a natural evolution. Carpenter Gothic improvises upon features that were carved in stone in authentic Gothic architecture, whether original or in more scholarly revival styles; however, in the absence of the restraining influence of genuine Gothic structures,[1] the style was freed to improvise and emphasize charm and quaintness rather than fidelity to received models. The genre received its impetus from the publication by Alexander Jackson Davis of Rural Residences and from detailed plans and elevations in publications by Andrew Jackson Downing.
^The British denigration of Sir George Gilbert Scott's restorations at Ely Cathedral as "Carpenter's Gothic" are discussed in Phillip Lindley, "'Carpenter's Gothic' and Gothic Carpentry: Contrasting Attitudes to the Restoration of the Octagon and Removals of the Choir at Ely Cathedral". Architectural History30 (1987:83–112).
CarpenterGothic, also sometimes called Carpenter'sGothic or Rural Gothic, is a North American architectural style-designation for an application of Gothic...
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churches in Santa Fe, Fairbanks, and Waldo, many in the CarpenterGothic style. CarpenterGothic architecture was developed by Richard Upjohn, whom Episcopal...
ownership of Charles Edwin Miller and Nathaniel Crenshaw Miller. The CarpenterGothic mansion was designed by New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis...
Gothic Cottage may refer to CarpenterGothic, the architectural style, or an example of that style applied to a cottage Gothic Cottage (Suffield, Connecticut)...
late-19th-century American architectural style, transitional between the CarpenterGothic style of the mid-19th century, and the Queen Anne style that it had...
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Hill Plantation House (sometimes Rose Hill Mansion) is an historic CarpenterGothic house located on US 278 in Bluffton, Beaufort County, South Carolina...
board-and-batten structure of unpainted eastern white pine. It is in the CarpenterGothic style, with triangle-peaked windows and shutters, and carved bargeboards...
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