Some types of house are associated with certain parts of the country. New York City, for instance, is famous of its brownstones, tall, narrow buildings named after the material used to build them. New England has clapboard houses, and in some cities there are row houses,similar to British terraces. In the Midwest there are many wooden farm houses with pointed roofs. The South has large wooden houses built before the Civil War in the antebellum style. But all over the US houses are built in may different styles.