Useful information: In the late 19th century wealthy families from Boston and the Northeast built summer "cottages" on Cape Cod and the Maine coast. These often voluminous shingled houses celebrated the porch and gave birth to the American Shingle Style. They remain inspirational today. See Vincent Scully's The Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory from Downing to the Origins of Wright (Yale University Press), and Michael Dolan's The American Porch: An Informal History of an Informal Place (The Lyons Press).
