If you ever decide to do a quick Google search of “American house styles,” amongst the ranch-style homes, farmhouses, and Colonials you’ll find an American mainstay: the Cape Cod house.

"The classic Cape Cod house style is a 1.5 story home with pitched roof that typically has a slope of 7 on 12," explains Treff LaFleche, principal architect at Boston-based studio LDa Architecture.

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