Style Mystery Solved

This is our beautiful home! This picture was taken back in March.  The land looks stark but this is a really good picture of the house.  

The house was built in 1911, but the style is not typical of those homes built at this time.  This is the era of kit homes, craftsmen style bungalows and foursquare farm homes.  We were not sure why this style of house was built at this time.  Upon researching home styles, I believe it to be Late Victorian Italianate.



Late Victorian Italianate  (from oldhouseweb.com)
Italianate was one of the most popular Victorian-era housing styles from the mid- to late-1800s. Homes in this style ranged from modest two-story town houses to ornate mansions of sea captains and other wealthy entrepreneurs. Inspired by villas of Italy -- or at least pictures of them, since few American architects traveled abroad -- the style is defined most by the use of single or paired decorative brackets under wide cornices.

The homes were typically two to three stories in height, with flat or hip roofs, bay windows with inset wooden panels, corner boards and two over two double-hung windows. The windows often had curved or molded window caps.

Style Details: 

Pictures Italianate Style

Here is why I believe this is the correct style: Before Jeff and Deanna put a new roof on the house, the roof was flat.  There is a wide cornice with brackets. We have a small wood porch on the front of the home.  The living room has a bay window.  Above and below all most main floor windows, there are inset wood panels.  

I also researched home colors of this time:

Part of the house has not been resided with permanent siding and the color is slate gray.  Luckily, Jeff and Deanna kept it that color when the chose the permanent siding.  I am not sure if the house has always been this color as the older pictures I have see of the house are in black and white.  What ever it may have been, the current color is historically correct which I am happy to know.  Our goal is to restore the home and be as historically accurate as possible.