Understanding "Heritage Buildings"
- Types of buildings in Wells
- houses
- cabins
- stores
- warehouses
- workshops
- barns
- Materials used
- logs
- hand sawn lumber
- milled lumber
- shakes and shingles
- metal roofing
- Comparison of architectural features of residences of prominent citizens, stores and hotels and abodes of ordinary miners
- lumber or log
- siding
- paint colours
- number and style of windows
- roof pitch and covering, eaves
- ornamentation
- style vs. practicality
- interior furnishings
- Use of the addition
- Cariboo "tack-on" architecture
- Terms
- board and batton
- clapboard
- shakes
- shingles
- false front
- dovetail notch
- saddle notch
- hewn
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