Gablefront house

A gablefront house is an American vernacular house type in which the gable end, rather than the long side of the building, faces the street or entrance. The form spread after 1825 alongside the popularity of American Greek Revival architecture, whose builders treated the gable end as a pediment recalling a Greek temple front, and gablefront houses were built throughout the United States from the early nineteenth century into the 1920s. The narrow gable end typically faces the street on a rectangular lot, and smaller one or one-and-a-half story versions are known as gablefront cottages; the type was originally associated with simple, working-class dwellings, though examples often added ornamentation such as brackets near doorways or rooflines, and many included front porches. Gablefront houses appear across a range of architectural styles beyond Greek Revival, including Gothic Revival and Queen Anne, making the form a widespread and adaptable feature of American residential building.