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    Gingerbread (architecture) - Wikipedia

    • Gingerbread houses in the northern provinces of Thailand combined the Lan Na arts and crafts and Victorian-era architecture. Additionally, commercial buildings owned by Chinese settlers and Burmese logging workers incorporated elaborate gingerbread decoration as part of the unique half-wood half-concrete structure called Saranai (or Salanai).… See more

    Overview

    Gingerbread is an architectural style that consists of elaborately detailed embellishment known as gingerbread … See more

    History

    During the 1830s and 1840s, American home builders started interpreting the European Gothic Revival architecture, which had elaborate masonry details, in wood to decorate American timber frame homes. Thi… See more

    In Haiti

    Residential buildings of wealthy individuals in Haiti during the Gingerbread era, between the 1880s and the 1920s, had a unique architecture that combined the local traditions and adaptation of foreign influences. … See more

    In Thailand

    During the European colonisation of Southeast Asia in the 19th century, wood was in high demand. The British timber industry started logging in India for teak, a tropical hardwood native to south and southeast … See more

    Notable examples

    • Many Victorian-era buildings in the Cape May Historic District, New Jersey
    • Gingerbread cottages in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
    • Abhisek Dusit Throne Hall, a gingerbread house in Bangkok, Thailand … See more

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