Dates: ca. 1870 to 1910 Features: Simple house forms decorated with elaborate spindlework, jigsaw-cut bargeboards, and other decorative trim.
As the industrial age made machine-cut wood details affordable and available to the average American, homeowners added mass-produced decorative trim (called gingerbread) to their small, simple folk cottages to dress them up in the style of the day.
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