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The family's ordeal finally ended in August, when a trailer truck carrying a hip-roofed house with yellow shingles pulled up on the site of Anderson's burned-out home.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old yellow hip-roofed house was about one hundred and sixty years old when it was moved away to make room for modern improvements.

From Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng

It is an oblong structure of brick, with marble and white wood trim, two stories high, hip-roofed and surmounted in the center by a well-proportioned, octagonal open cupola.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

It is a low, hip-roofed house, studded with enormous beams, and lighted with tiny diamond window-panes.

From The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 by Various

The structure comprises three parts; a large central building with hip-roofed wings for offices connected with the main building by open arcaded loggias.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank