Huning Highlands Historic Home Tour: SW Vernacular-Style
See Part I, Huning Highland Victorians...
What stands out in Huning Highlands is the finishing work: the faades & other details seem to pop & draw your attention as you walk by.
The variety of added styles is impressive. From the New Town Guide: "the uniqueness of the area was characterized by "various roof pitches & styles, including dormers, leaded windows, broad front porches with Doric columns, tall brick chimneys with a variety of capping patterns, warm stucco with Spanish tiles, and an array of decorative frieze boards, gable wall patterns and brick bracketry—most of which came to the area over the railroad from eastern mail order houses—add up to a housing neighborhood that is culturally & historically of great value to the city & worth conserving."
Below are Huning Highlands residences with Southwest Vernacular influences. Notice the unique "wavy" parapet SW Vernacular-style home, directly below, & the "stepped" parapet below that...
Directly above is another unique SW Vernacular-style home, north of Central Ave in Huning Highlands. It has a sweet half-moon front parapet & notice the half-moon overhang.
See a stone home near the home above...