What is a Cape Cod style house? Where can I find examples on the Internet?
The Cape Cod is one of America’s oldest and most popular styles for family homes. Fine Homebuilding magazine describes these features as typical of the Cape Cod home: • Small in scale and low to the ground. • Roof pitched at about 8″ to 12″ to keep the weather out. • Small roof overhang so strong winds can do less damage. • Large chimney centered over the front door. • Roofs and walls covered in wooden shingles or clapboards. The stormy weather of Massachusetts’ Cape Cod region was the inspiration for this house style. According to This Old House Online, 17th-century settlers “drew on a shipwright’s skills to build a tight house that was almost a ship upon land, able to withstand the fiercest Nor’easter.” The
