• Well-wishers Applaud Vision at Lewis-Gale Imaging Center Groundbreaking
• Lewis-Gale prepares to break ground
• Four Square is sittin' pretty
• SW Virginia's first traditional neighborhood is born
• Central business district is taking shape

The Cottage is based on a simple European medieval rural architecture (Postmedieval), brought to the
American South in the 1600s.

Essential Elements

• Simple, straightforward volumes with side wings
  and porches added to make expressive and balanced compositions
• An orderly, symmetrical relationship between doors, windows and building mass
• Steeply pitched, side gable roof with little or no rake
  or eave overhang
• Simple cornice detailing
• Useful porch areas, most often on the front but also
  on the sides or rear
• Massive end chimneys
• Roof dormers
• Simple entry detailing

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Silk Reed Cottage • Click here for the Floor Plan (PDF)