What's the most favorite style of home in your area: brick or frame? (houses)
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I know in the case of St. Louis, red brick is the material used for the vast majority of housing, although the suburbs of Kirkwood and Webster Groves are known for their frame style housing. In Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and Cleveland, the preferred style is frame. In Chicago it's a mixture of brick and frame. So what style of housing does your city primarily use?
Brick and brick/stone veneer on a slab foundation here in northeast Texas. Red brick is not as popular as brown-toned bricks. Limestone bricks are also popular here.
Here in New Mexico it is most often an adobe style or colored structure. Actual adobe is becoming rare in modern residential buildings so now it is stucco over frame construction. My house is frame/stucco but with some interior adobe walls (away from the elements). Within that context there are several current styles: Pueblo revival, Spanish revival, Territorial, pseudo-Tuscan, and a fusion of all 4 styles. With only 12 inches of rain, a flat roof is common though not universal. That adobe style was out of favor for a few decades so in older parts of the city you might see craftsman bungalows, folk Victorian, shotguns, or simple shingled frame houses...seldom brick.
This was our former house here in northeast Texas - it was new construction and typical of homes around here:
The last picture is our current house - also typical of this area. Our current house is twenty years old.
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