Downstairs, a sunporch with orchids and potted shrubs faced a little square yard planted with orange and tangerine trees.
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Robert Allbritton was the great owner that backed it and we grew it from three of us on the sunporch to 460 people round the world.
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The land was what drew the homeowners to the property in the first place, so expecting mom Joanna included plenty of windows and double doors for easy access to the new patio and sunporch.
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The front is sheltered by an oversized two-story portico supported by fluted columns, which was added c. 1900. A sunporch, built about the same time, was attached to the left side of the main block. To the rear of the main block and sunporch is a two-story wood frame ell, from which a second brick ell extends further to the left. and John Peters, a native of Andover, Massachusetts, arrived in the Blue Hill area in 1765, and was one of its first proprietors, owning more than of land in the area.
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It has a portico with four monumental two-story Tuscan columns added in the renovation. Also added were a porte-cochere on one side and a sunporch on the other. An effect of the renovation was to bring the house into, broadly speaking, Colonial Revival style. With .
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The kitchen opens up onto the central hall or continues into the dining room or sunporch. The dining room contains a fireplace much like the one in the parlor. The bay window at one end of the room was used as a tea area. The doors throughout the house are framed by oak frames with a frosted levered window.
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Nathan Michener House is a historic home located in South Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1813, and is a -story, four- bay by two-bay, fieldstone dwelling a transitional Greek Revival style. It has a gable roof, end chimneys, and features massive corner quoins. It also has a one-story, fieldstone sunporch with a pyramidal roof.
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The 1-1/2 story, timber-framed house has a side gable roof, a large central chimney, and a solid granite foundation. The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters. An ell and sunporch extend to the rear of the original main block. The house was built around 1784 by John Wade, a tanner.
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Other design features include a porte-cochère that opens into a side garden, an orangery, loggia, and sunporch. Exterior materials are granite and glazed brick. Bronze entry doors were fabricated by Bonachek of New York, with other doors in steel with bronze hardware. Windows were fabricated of steel and bronze by International Casement Company, now Hope Windows, which features the home in their promotional materials.
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The Winery Cottage was the main living quarters throughout London's time on the ranch, and the location where many of his visitors stayed. London bought it in 1911 and expanded it later that year. London further expanded by adding a west wing to the cottage, which served as a study where he wrote many of his stories. London died in this cottage, on the sunporch, on November 22, 1916.
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The House at 44 Linden Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, is a little-altered local example of Second Empire styling. The 1-1/2 story house was built in 1874 by Solomon Eaton on land that was owned for many years by Thomas Aspinwall Davis. It has classic Second Empire features, including a mansard roof, polygonal bay windows, and brownstone window arches. The only significant alteration is a sunporch on the left side.
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On the interior, the main floor contains a centran hall and staircase and four surrounding rooms. The kitchen is located in the rear to the east room, and a parlor/bedroom is located in the front to the east. On the west side of the house hall is a large combination living-dining room, and the rear sunporch is located behind this room. The second floor contains four bedrooms, two on either side of the central hall.
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McAllister House in Seiling, Oklahoma is a Bungalow/Craftsman-style house was built in 1920; it was built for Pat and Belva McAllister. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It was deemed notable architecturally as a Bungalow/Craftsman work, and as the only textured stucco- faced house surviving in Seiling. The house has 14 rooms, seven gables and a total of 52 windows, counting 12 windows on its sunporch in the back.
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The Wooton Presbyterian Center, also known as Wooton Community Center, is a historic building on KY 80 in Wooton, Kentucky. It was built during 1919-21 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The center provided medical services to the community from 1917 until 1950. Its building, completed in 1921, is a two-and-a-half-story Shingle Style building with a recessed porch on its first floor and an enclosed sunporch on its second floor.
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The 2½-story structure features a steep hipped roof typical of an American Foursquare, projecting gabled pavilions with Mission Style curved parapets, a small front porch, and a single-story wing along south elevation. There is also a Paldian window in a Spanish- inspired roof dormer on the west elevation of the house. American Craftsman decorative details are found on the stylized cap detail of the front porch. Prairie School influences are found in the horizontality of the various porches, a projecting one-story window feature, and a two-story sunporch.
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A sunporch extends along the eastern facade, and a flat-roofed porch on the west side is connected to a porte-cochere. A period garage stands on the northwest corner of the property; it features styling similar to that found on the main house.National Register nomination for Main Street Historic District; available by request from the National Park Service The house was designed by Gibbs & Pulsifer, an architectural firm based in Lewiston, and built for Horace G. Foss. Foss was the owner the Dingley-Foss Company, a manufacturer of footwear employing 500-600 workers.
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The interior of the building has only seen modest alteration since its construction, and its exterior is also little change beyond the addition of a sunporch on one side. The house has 21 rooms and more than of living space. The house was built in 1899, and has, since its occupation in 1910 by Leonard Wood, housed the Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Its most prominent resident was Dwight D. Eisenhower, who made his family residence here during his tenure as Chief of Staff, 1945–1948.
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