As Wright explains, Cape Cod houses are often imagined as the classic American beach house.Traditionally, they’re small, single- or one-and-a-half-story homes with steeply pitched, side-gabled ...

One of the oldest houses in the region, the Atwood-Higgins house, is a Cape-style house that was built in the 1730s on a remote road in Wellfleet. In the classic edition of Monopoly, Cape Cod ...

A defining feature of a Cape-style house is the side-gabled roof, meaning the slopes of the roof face the home’s front and back, and the gables are on either side.