"Richard Maurer" wrote in message
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Pat Darken wrote:
Someone posted links to houses that had
"California roofs", but I wasn't able to
distinguish what makes them have the name.
And now, calling them Eichler roofs is not
clearing them up any further.


It is harder than I thought to find a good picture.

This is not what I think of as a classic Eichler roof,
which is one large wing rising at a low pitch, or has
two asymmetrical wings. Apparently Eichler, like Picasso,
went through periods. But it does match a drawing
that the original poster made.

www.actionproperties.com/ads/trophy952.html
(link is presumably time limited)

OK. Both examples of Eichler roof have a gable (peaked) roof, with a
low-pitched roof in contrast, and at a lower level. In both examples,
the more steeply pitched roof has been in the center, but I can
appreciate having it to one side, and even (correct me if I am wrong)
having the steeply pitched roof with a single slope (not a gable, but a
single pitch, like a leanto as opposed to a tent) and a contrasting
low-pitched section, or two.)

Thanks.