Shingle Style (Part 3)

The Shingle Style, its often claimed, is a wholly American style--the first wholly American style, inspired in large part by the humble cottages and outbuildings of New England fishing villages.

Typically the (cedar) shingles were meant to be left unpainted, and to age naturally.
Antithetically, this example (top) in Western Heights has painted shingles (albeit a verisimilar brown), and an utterly inappropriate light grey roof. The style is intended to be perceived as a whole, unified, rather than as highly contrasting planes.

In connection with the Shingle Style, many progressive turn of the century architects experimented with "rusticity," often adapting medieval forms. (Traces of which are visible in this marvelous Angelino Heights house.)