saltbox

noun salt·box \ ˈsȯlt-ˌbäks \

|Updated on: 21 Jun 2018

Definition of saltbox

: a frame dwelling with two stories in front and one behind and a roof with a long rear slope

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Recent Examples of saltbox from the Web

The saltbox-style house, built in 1906 on 1,020 acres, has three bedrooms, one bath and 2,452 square feet ($2,936 a square foot).

— janet eastman, OregonLive.com, "The most expensive homes in each of Oregon's counties (photos)," 12 June 2018
Consisting of two saltbox houses and four outbuildings overlooking the rest of Salvage, its harbor, and the rugged coastline that surrounds it, the Pickersgill Premises is an official Registered Property of Newfoundland and Labrador.

— elizabeth finkelstein, Country Living, "This Property for Sale in an Old Canadian Fishing Village Is the Most Romantic Place on Earth," 30 Mar. 2018
Although the three cottages look like 18th-century saltboxes, while renovating them Romualdez found newspapers from the 1930s used as insulation, as well as a photograph from that time showing the three structures attached to the windmill.

— bob colacello, Vanities, "A Visit to Fisherman’s Cove, Designer Daniel Romualdez’s Montauk Escape," 2 Aug. 2017
Although the three cottages look like 18th-century saltboxes, while renovating them Romualdez found newspapers from the 1930s used as insulation, as well as a photograph from that time showing the three structures attached to the windmill.

— bob colacello, Vanities, "A Visit to Fisherman’s Cove, Designer Daniel Romualdez’s Montauk Escape," 2 Aug. 2017
Although the three cottages look like 18th-century saltboxes, while renovating them Romualdez found newspapers from the 1930s used as insulation, as well as a photograph from that time showing the three structures attached to the windmill.

— vanityfair.com, "A Visit to Fisherman’s Cove, Designer Daniel Romualdez’s Montauk Escape," 10 July 2017
His saltbox there is also awash in neutrals, with furniture in a different mix of periods, from Swedish antiques to midcentury modern.

— nancy hass, ELLE Decor, "Creative License: Inside the Home of C. Wonder's Creative Director," 21 Sep. 2012
One sports a gambrel roof, another a saltbox shape, a third the shape of a whimsical birdhouse.

— denise coffey, Courant Community, "Pretty Potties: A New Idea In Portable Potties," 6 June 2017
The background of Ohio's settlers affected very different aspect of their lives, from speaking to styles of housing - New England saltboxes v. saddlebag houses.

— robert higgs, cleveland.com, "Why is Cleveland different than Cincinnati? It all comes down to history," 17 May 2017

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