The Shingle Style is an unusually free form and variable style. It has remained primarily a high fashion architectural style, rather than becoming widely adapted to mass vernacular housing. Fine examples of the style remain in Cohasset MA, Newport R.I., coastal Maine, Long Island N.Y., and spread throughout the country. Notable New England architects who made the style famous were H.H. Richardson and the firm of Mead, McKim and White. Interior emphasis was toward comfortable, convenience.
Rooms flow into each other to serve the family and guests in a more casual relationship.
Kitchens are closer to the diners. What seems natural today was a sharp departure from the rigid Victorian styles preceding and influenced the low slung lines of the Prairie style captured by Frank Lloyd Wright.