Sand Hills cottage architecture is a modified form of

Greek Revival architecture The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

which developed in the Sand Hills area of the U.S. state of Georgia. The form has symmetry, wide

entablatures An entablature (; nativization of Italian language, Italian , from "in" and "table") is the superstructure of molding (decorative), moldings and bands which lies horizontally above columns, resting on their capital (architecture), capitals. E ...

, and classic columns of the Greek Revival style. It may include Greek Revival front doorway details, such as having a rectangular

transom Transom may refer to: * Transom (architecture), a bar of wood or stone across the top of a door or window, or the window above such a bar * Transom (nautical), that part of the stern of a vessel where the two sides of its hull meet * Operation Tran ...

with side lights. But if it has a "one-story, high-pitched side gable roof, three gable dormers, and a full-facade porch" then it would be characterized as the Sand Hills variation. Seclusaval is "an excellent example" of this type. Examples include: * Seclusaval and Windsor Spring (1843) in Richmond County, Georgia with *

Brahe House The Brahe House, located at 456 Telfair St. in Augusta, Georgia, was built in 1850. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is a three-story cottage built by/for Frederick Adolphus Brahe. It is "a unique structure ...

(1850) in Richmond County * Cunningham-Coleman House (c.1830s) in Jefferson County * Meadow Garden (1791) in

Augusta, Georgia Augusta ( ), officially Augusta–Richmond County, is a consolidated city-county on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. The city lies across the Savannah River from South Carolina at the head of its navig ...

(now Augusta–Richmond County)

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