# Is there a name for this type of porch?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-type-of-porch/242343
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 27, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-type-of-porch/242343 "2004-04-27T20:23:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@mmmiiikkkeee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmmiiikkkeee)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-type-of-porch/242343/1 "2004-04-27T20:23:27Z")
The wrap-around type porch seen [in](http://www.bnblist.com/mi/sherwood/newhouse.jpg) [these](http://www.lowcountrytours.com/images/gallery/plantation/house5.jpg) [four](http://www.greatrentals.com/IA/563/hansenInn.jpg) [photos.](http://www.johnsgate.com/images/house2_sm.jpg) I don’t know my architecture and these pics may well show totally different styles, but it’s the common front-and-sides old-fashioned open porch seen on older type houses that I’m looking for a name on.
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### Author:  [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-type-of-porch/242343/2 "2004-04-27T20:41:41Z")
A [veranda](http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/TF.HTM)?
“In architecture, a veranda is an open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out- of-door sitting room.”
A [portico](http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/TB.HTM#PORTICO)?
“. . . a portico is a colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture. It is usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building.”
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-type-of-porch/242343/3 "2004-04-27T21:13:10Z")
I’ve always heard them called verandas.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-type-of-porch/242343/4 "2004-04-27T21:25:06Z")
In the reading I’ve done, the style of house in 3 of the pix is a _farm house,_ and the porch is a farm house porch. You get to sit in the sun or shade at any time of the day, and if it’s raining, you can walk laps around the house without getting wet.
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### Author:  [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2004, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-type-of-porch/242343/5 "2004-04-28T11:57:43Z")
I think the term you used in your OP is correct. [Wrap-around porches.](http://www.houseplanguys.com/wrap-around-porch-house-plans.php)
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-type-of-porch/242343/6 "2004-04-28T13:42:15Z")
Around here, they’re called Farmer’s Porches. Why Farmer’s? I have no idea.
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### Author:  [@Bangiadore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bangiadore)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-type-of-porch/242343/7 "2004-04-28T14:19:12Z")
I’ll second **Finagle’s** assertion that they’re called farmer’s porches, at least as far south as the Rhode Island and Connecticut shores. Me, I calls 'em _paradise_.