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Anthony Hockman House, also known as the Hockman-Roller House, is a historic home located at Harrisonburg, Virginia. It was built in 1871, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame
I-house The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was so named in the 1930s by Fred Kniffen, a cultural geographer at Louisiana State University who was a specialist in folk archi ...
Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...
dwelling. It has a projecting central bay topped with a low gable and with the hipped-roof
cupola In architecture, a cupola () is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome. The word derives, via Italian, fro ...
. The house features applied " gingerbread" trim, including molded corner pilasters, a heavily bracketed cornice, an elaborate one-story front porch, and heavily molded regency garret windows. an
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National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 1982.


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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Italianate architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1871 Houses in Harrisonburg, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Harrisonburg, Virginia {{HarrisonburgVA-NRHP-stub