Wrangell’s famed Three-Frog Totem on Shakes Island is no more. The clans involved in the pole’s history decided its purpose ...

The Cape Cod-style house is a classic American home style. Learn its key design characteristics, potential disadvantages, and ...

On the top of that list: the Cape Cod-style house. With their small footprint and sublimely simple design, Cape Cods are one ...

Additional Cape Cod house style characteristics include: • A cedar shingle or cedar shake roof. Moderately or steeply pitched in a side-gable form with little-to-no overhang, it’s typically ...

The property changed hands last year and is now in the midst of a makeover. Old cedar shake shingles have been taken down from part of the facade at the northwest corner of Main and Front streets.

Q. The declaration for our single family common interest community association requires that all roofs be either hand split cedar shakes or slate shingles only. An owner wants to replace his split ...

Q. We want to replace our cedar siding, and you wrote about not using cedar. Is that just for decks, or also for siding? Our ...