50.11.003 APPENDIX C – OLD TOWN STYLES DESCRIPTION
Structures in the Old Town style shall be characterized by simple massing and composition, use of natural building materials, window and door openings emphasized with trim, and gable and hip roof forms.
Structures shall consist of elements from not more than two of the following traditional American home building styles: Early 1900 Vernacular (gable-front or gable front-and-wing), Craftsman, and Cape Cod.
1. Early 1900 Vernacular Style
One or two story with moderately pitched gable front or gable front with side wing, often with a front porch with shed or hip roof. Vernacular style house forms include square, rectangular, L- or T-plan with intersecting gables. These houses can include symmetrical placement of doors and double-hung sash windows, which are emphasized by window trim. They are typically sided with shiplap or other wood horizontal siding. Typically, there is little or no decorative detailing. On the more complex structures with intersecting gables, the roof ridge of one of the gables is sometimes higher than the other adjacent wing.
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Example of early 1900 vernacular style, front gable with side wing |
20th century construction in Old Town built to the vernacular style |
The Workers Cottage, built in Old Town circa 1880
2. Cape Cod
A 20th century Cape Cod is square or rectangular with one or one-and-a-half stories and steeply pitched, side gable roofs, sometimes with an intersecting gable often with dormers. It may have dormers and shutters. The siding is usually clapboard or brick. There is often an accentuated front door, with a decorative crown (pediment) supported by pilasters or extended forward and supported by slender columns to form a small entry porch. Windows typically are with double-hung sashes, usually with multi-pane glazing on one or both sashes, frequently in adjacent pairs.
3. Craftsman
Low pitched gabled roof (occasionally hip) with wide, overhanging eaves, roof rafters usually exposed, decorative (false) beams or braces commonly added under gables, porches either full or partial width, with roof supported by tapered square columns or pedestals, frequently extended to ground level and frequently composed of stone, clapboard, brick or in combination. Dormers are commonly gabled in twos or threes or large windows the front facade with smaller pane sections above and often flanked by two smaller windows. The most common wall cladding is wood clapboard, wood and shingles, with stone and brick used in combination, or for porch post pillars or columns. Stucco is occasionally used as is board and batten.
4. Fences
All fences or walls over five ft. in height shall incorporate an open design where areas, either at the top of the fence or wall, or throughout the fence or wall surface in a regular pattern, are permeable to light. The solid surface area of any fence or wall over five ft. in height shall not exceed 83% of its total area measured in any five-ft. wide section. Lattice is exempt from the above calculation (LOC 50.05.006.6).
Examples of Fence Types:
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Fence Type A |
Fence Type B |
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Fence Type C |
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Fence Examples
5. Rockwork
Rockwork as a tradition in Old Town
6. LOC 50.05.006 Figures
ARCHITECTURAL MASSING
Figure 1. Example of primary and secondary roof forms
Figure 2. Create visual linkages. Offset building walls and rooflines. Incorporate similar roof forms and smaller design elements. (Note: The intent of this drawing is not to indicate that full-length porches are not acceptable for multi-family dwellings, but that design features must be considered along with overall form and massing to achieve compatibility.)
ARCHITECTURAL MASSING and GARAGE PLACEMENT
Figure 3. Create visual interest along the street. Incorporate porches, dormers, and bays to reduce scale of buildings and so as to relate better to existing structures.
(Ord. 2579, Repealed and Replaced, 03/20/2012)