what style of architecture is this?

Shannombu

last year

Is this an American Foursquare?

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cpartist
last year
It's a Foursquare.

BTW: the shutters don't belong on that style.
Shannombu
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last year
They didn’t have shutters?
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palimpsest
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Foursquares were built around the turn of the 20th c. and into the 1930s and by then shutters would have had no functional value and would have been considered "old-fashioned" more than anything else, on a functional style like this.

And since your house has double windows and the shutters clearly would not close over the windows, it lessens their decorative appeal too.

I have nothing against obviously decorative shutters on houses from the 1950s and such when they started putting them on as pure decoration even though they made no functional sense. But I feel like foursquares with double windows tend to look better without.
Shannombu
Original Author
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It’s not my House. What a shame. I adore this look, lol.
Shannombu
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last year
Fantastic! It still looks adorable without shutters.

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