Ontario Gothic

If you visit Southern Ontario you will see many Ontario Gothic houses like this one. Most are single-storey cottages with a window each side of the central door and a gable above. This is a grander version, and there are grander ones yet. I have read that the gable was in part intended to keep snow from falling on the doorstep; in these days of insulation it also serves to increase the area of the roof and lessen the strain from snow. The style takes its name from a 19th-century style book.