Catskills Folk Architecture on WIOX

Tonight, Tuesday, September 9, 2014, on Catskills Folk the program will focus not on high style buildings constructed and decorated for the elite few, but on the buildings constructed by and for ordinary people.


Because the Catskills Vernacular Architecture Challenge #1 (see below) is a residence, our topic will be confined to types or forms of residential buildings in the Catskills.  Here are a few of the older residential house types you might see in the Catskills:

One story, center door, long side to the road

One and half stories, center door, long side to road

Note two windows to each side of the door

One and a half stories, center door, long side to road

Note pilasters (flat columns) on corners of house

One and a half stories, long side to road

Note off center door and "eye brow" windows

Two full stories, long side to road

Center door with two windows to each side

Two full stories in main house; short side to road

Greek Revival pilasters, pediment, and architraves

One story wing may be as old as main house

Note porch indented into house.

Clue about whether or not one story wing is original.

If the yellow house is too stylish to call "folk",

 then this upright and wing is the folk version of it.

Have fun looking at architecture in the Catskills and don't forget the Challenge!

Ginny