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Originally Posted by VApeople
The hip roof is the main feature in a Cracker style house like those in The Villages. It is based on the chickee huts used by the Native Americans.
Read the book "Classic Cracker" written by professor Ronald Haase, who was originally from New England but now teaches at the University of Florida, or at least he did when he wrote the book..
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did a google search and some chickee huts and some had the sloped roof on only two sides. Pretty sure houses in old England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland had many thatched roofs with 4 sloped sides