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French Provincial -- Balance and symmetry are the ruling characteristics of this formal style. Homes are often brick with detailing in copper or slate. Windows and chimneys are symmetrical and perfectly balanced, at least in original versions of the style. Defining features include a steep, high, hip roof; balcony and porch balustrades; rectangle doors set in arched openings; and double French windows with shutters. Second-story windows usually have a curved head that breaks through the cornice. The design had its origins in the style of rural manor homes, or chateaus, built by the French nobles during the reign of Louis XIV in the mid-1600s. The French Provincial design was a popular Revival style in the 1920s and again in the 1960s. "Reprinted from REALTOR® Magazine January, 2004  (http://www.realtor.org/realtormag) with permission of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®. Copyright 2004. All rights reserved."         FRENCH SECOND EMPIRE (c.1865-c.1885) Shard Villa, 1872-74, Salisbury, VT Photograph taken by Thomas Visser "Lura" Keith Traylor House Museum 808 Live Oak Street - Columbus, TX 78934 (409) 732-5135 - 1-877-444-7339 This home, constructed in 1873 and described as a "valentine," is reminiscent of the French provincial farmhouse style, perhaps because the builder, John Wilbur Keith moved to Columbus from Beaumont near the Texas-Louisiana border. It was there that he met his bride-to-be, Haseltine Vanderville Long. The romantic effect of the house proved itself when James Long Keith Sr., who was born in the house, returned to Columbus for visits and fell in love with Clara Traylor, eldest of Charles Traylor's daughters, also born in the house. They were married November 25, 1896, in the very bedroom of the house where both had been born. Website: www.columbustexas.org Hours: Tours by appointment and during Magnolia Homes Tour (3rd Weekend in May) For information on buying or selling east bay homes, please contact me at 510-429-4800 or send me a note on the Contact Joanne form. Thank you, Joanne P.S.  Be sure to add us to your favorite places. ~ Joanne L. Gardiner, Broker, e-PRO Realtor Advantage Realty 3205 Whipple Road - Union City, California 94587 (510) 429-4800 San Francisco Bay Area  ~ San Francisco East Bay Real Estate web site: http://www.joannegardiner.com   Our primary realty service areas in the San Francisco Bay Area: Hayward, Castro Valley, Fremont, Newark, Niles, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, San Ramon, Sunol, Oakland, Foster City, Burlingame, and San Mateo. The types of real estate in which we specialize are:  single family homes, detached homes, attached homes, duets, condominiums, townhomes, garden homes, PUDs, manufactured homes, mobile homes,  income property, investment property, tri-plexes, four-plexes, apartment property, and special use properties such as churches for sale.

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