Eyebrow houses, shotgun houses, Conch Victorians: Key West is an architectural treasure trove of wooden houses built in the 19th century. Many of Key West's houses were built by ship's carpenters. They built strong, tight houses, mostly without plans and relying on memories of vessels and seaside homes of their childhoods. They borrowed widow's walks from New England, eyebrows (long, overhanging eaves)from the West Indies, and added touches of the latest architectural styles -- Greek Revival columns, Gothic Revival gables, Victorian gingerbread, Creole trellises, Italianate eave brackets and Queen Anne turrets.
Other Key West houses are examples of practical vernacular architecture inhabited by the industrial workers who settled here.
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