Rustic style

Rustic style

A broad term applied to hunting lodges, ranger stations, or log cabins in mountainous areas, featuring log-cabin siding, peeled logs, and rough-cut lumber, a fieldstone chimney, a steep roof covered with hand-split shingles, and an overhanging roof with exposed rafters.

Rustic style

A vague term denoting an architectural mode rather than an architectural style, often applied to hunting lodges or log cabins in forested areas of the northeastern United States. Characteristics include: wall construction of logs (often peeled), saddle-notch corner joints, and rough-cut lumber; a fieldstone chimney; a moderately to steeply pitched roof covered by hand-split wood shingles, a roof overhang with exposed rafters; one or more balconies or porches with flat balusters having decorative cutouts or stickwork. Occasionally called Adirondack Rustic style or Teddy Roosevelt Rustic style.