Gambrel

A gambrel roof is a pitched roof with two slopes. A steeper slope at the lower part capped with a shallow upper slope.

Gambrel Media

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  A cross-sectional diagram of a mansard roof, which is a hipped gambrel roof

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  Dwelling with gambrel roof in Amityville, New York, made famous by The Amityville Horror

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  If the date of construction and the roof of the Henry Bull House was original to the circa 1639 date this would be the oldest known example of a gambrel in America.

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  Another candidate for oldest gambrel roof, said to be from 1666, Alexander Standish House

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  The first Harvard Hall, Harvard University, credited to be the oldest known example of a gambrel roof in North America, built c. 1677, burned 1766

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  Gambrel roof seen on an East Toledo home in approximately 1937