Columns As We See 'Em

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If one-storey porch columns are nice, pillars that rise to the second level must be twice as good, right? The rest of house appears to be an early 20th-century bungalow, an inherently cozy house type that usually looked something like the one at the right. Slapping mammoth supports on such a modest faade is akin to those Rolls Royce grilles sometimes seen on vintage Volkswagen bugs. The Indianapolis, Indiana, reader who sent us this Remuddling notes other Colonial-style enhancements: the door surround, black cast-iron porch lamp, cornice and capital-like moulding on the columns. Neoclassical houses with full-faade porches were the height of style between 1925 and 1950. In those cases, however, porch columns were usually round with roofline balustrades or other elaboration, and a slight incline from the vertical known as batter. Perhaps this is Umpire style?

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