Houses consist of one-story cottages typical of vernacular architecture.

Last year, a 684-square-foot one-story cottage, built in 1930, with two bedrooms and 210 feet of river frontage sold for $240,000 after being listed for $299,999.

The one-story cottage is of teak, with a cedar-shingle roof.

In the 1950's, Florida homes were mostly compact one-story concrete cottages with low-pitched roofs.

The view from upstairs was not obstructed by the one-story cottage next door.

The dirt path the old man had taken to the river wound its way up to a modest one-story cottage nestled in the trees.

Those older communities include multifamily units and small, one-story cottages, which seem primitive compared with active-adult homes coming on the market now.

In 1996, he and his wife bought a lakeside home, a one-story cottage that they planned to use in the summers.

On the south side of the town I could see, over the low one-story cottages, what appeared to be warehouses or large workshops.

Most are unassuming, vernacular, frame or brick, single family, two-story dwellings or one-story cottages.