Some attributed a cause of the fire to be worsen to the cheap construction materials and the gingerbread decorations in hoping other cities would heed the warning. That didn't last very long, the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 destroyed many of those buildings. The style lived on and flourished in the residential areas of Chicago in the 1860s. He also pointed out that the vergeboard of the Rural Gothic gable should have been carefully carved in thick and solid plank to appreciate its beauty instead of an ornamental part which was "sawn out of thin board, so as to have a frippery and 'gingerbread' look which (degraded), rather than (elevated), the beauty of the cottage." He argued that the lower-cost cottages which were small in size and had simplistic style should not be ornamented with elaborated embellishment of a villa. He classified homes in the United States into three types: villas for the wealthy, cottages for working people and farmhouses for farmers. Andrew Jackson Downing, a prominent advocate of the Gothic Revival criticized this style in his Architecture of Country Houses in 1852. Not everyone agreed with this architectural style. At the time, standard sized gingerbread elements were manufactured at low cost in the East Coast. By the middle of the 19th century, with the invention of the steam-powered scroll saw, the mass production of thin boards that were cut into a variety of ornamental parts had helped builders to transform simple cottages into unique houses. The early designs started with simple stickwork such as vertical sawtooth siding. History ĭuring the 1830s and 1840s, American home builders started interpreting the European Gothic Revival architecture, which had elaborate masonry details, in wood to decorate American timber frame homes. It was loosely based on the Picturesque period of English architecture in the 1830s. It is more specifically used to describe the detailed decorative work of American designers in the late 1860s and 1870s, which was associated mostly to the Carpenter Gothic style. ![]() ![]() Gingerbread is an architectural style that consists of elaborately detailed embellishment known as gingerbread trim. ![]() Gingerbread trim on a Victorian-era house in Cape May, New Jersey For the model house dessert, see Gingerbread house.
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