The Shingle style is an American architectural style that became popular with the rise of the New England school of architecture, which avoided the highly ornate patterns of the Eastlake style in Queen Anne architecture. Shingle in English means shingle or shingle and its name is explained by the wooden slats that cover its facades, the result of the fusion of English influence with the renewed interest in colonial architecture in the United States after the 1876 Centennial. smooth shingle surfaces of colonial buildings and their grouping was emulated.

In addition to being a design style, the style also conveyed a sense of the house as a continuous volume. This effect, of the building as an envelope of space, rather than a large mass, was reinforced by the visual tension of the flat surfaces and the general emphasis on horizontal continuity, both in the exterior details and in the flow of the interior spaces.

McKim, Mead and White and Peabody and Stearns") were two of the notable firms of the era that helped popularize the shingle style, through their large-scale commissions for "seaside cottages" by the rich and well-to-do in such places as Newport "Newport (Rhode Island)"), in Rhode Island and the town of East Hampton,_New_York&action=edit&redlink=1 "East Hampton (town), New York (not yet drafted)") on the southeastern tip of Long Island.[1] Perhaps the most famous shingle-style house built in the United States was "Kragsyde")" (1882), the summer home commissioned by Bostonian G. Nixon Black, of Peabody and Stearns. Kragsyde was built on the rocky coastline near Manchester-By-the-Sea, Massachusetts, and embodied every possible principle of the Shingle style. The William G. Low House"), designed by McKim, Mead & White and built in 1887, is another notable example.

Many of the concepts of the Shingle style were adopted by Gustav Stickley and adapted to the American version of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Additionally, there are several other notable styles of Victorian architecture, including Italianate, Second Empire, Folk, and Gothic Revival.

Some concentrations of Shingle style architecture are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Important historic districts listed include.[2].

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