This “five-bay Georgian” style was built over and over again, well into the 19th century. A back, or sometimes side-kitchen ell, often was added. Five equally-spaced windows on the second floor are located directly above the first- floor openings. On the first floor of these local Georgian-style houses, there are two windows on either side of an often highlighted, decorated door leading into a central hallway. Regardless of the building materials used, the style tended to be repeated: small, simple one room deep, 1 or 1 ½ story folk houses with little extra trim and larger 2 or 2 ½ story symmetrical structures, with the roof ridge line running parallel to the road, often with additional details in their design. Architectural materials used in early Watershed examples included log, plank, stone and brick, drawing from the abundance of trees, fieldstone, and nearby deposits of clay for making bricks, available within a close distance to the building sites.
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