The particular manner of using wood shingles so that they appear to flow across surfaces, turn corners, and enclose deep loggias and entryways is the style's chief hallmark. However, similar qualities are also achieved in clapboard or cut stone. As a resort style it serves equally well for pretentious and utilitarian structures. The Shingle Style reduces the number and variety of motifs, enlarges their scale, and complicates massing. Colonial motifs survive as isolated elements such as shingles, broad gables or gambrels, and small window panes.
Fenestration is generally regular and windows are frequently grouped in horizontal bands.
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