This style of wood siding is easily identified by its distinct shadow lines.
Dutch colonial siding.
Dutch lap or german siding is a type of drop siding which unlike clapboards is non beveled and not lapped in installation.
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Revival colonials played up decorative crowns and formal entries while spanish colonial homes built in the southwest used tall ceilings and adobe exteriors for extra cooling.
Classic rambling shingle style asymmetric with a touch of dutch colonial influence by architect rudy ridberg on a promontory in old greenwich connecticut surrounded by the long island sound.
Specifically its trademark gambrel roof.
Dutch lap vinyl siding.
The universally distinguishing feature of a dutch colonial is not its siding material but its roof.
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Instead it is edge matched with a shiplap or less often tongue and groove so that it installs flat on wall framing even without sheathing.
While this may cause confusion it is clear however that its unique look inspired one of its numerous successors most popular profiles.
By name it is called dutch lap german lap or even novelty siding.