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Architectural Styles - Second Empire
Information:
- Location: Reid Street
- Architect: Unknown
- Status: Restored
- Build Date: 1884
Style:
- c.1860-1890
- Brick construction (usually)
- Sloping mansard roof line, often shingle pattern and cast iron cresting
- Prominent dormer windows, tall double windows, bay windows, round "bull's-eye" windows, brick border details around windows
- Heavy wooden brackets under eaves
- Metal railing (crest rail) along roof line
- Inspired by French designs in Napoleonic period
