The house is a story wood frame saltbox style house, sheathed in wooden clapboards. His experiments began in 1937 with steel siding in imitation of wooden clapboards. The house is clad in milled cypress clapboards. The walls are sheathed in wooden clapboards, and it has two chimneys. It is also commonly used for siding clapboards. The house is a story wood frame structure, sheathed in wooden clapboards. Modern clapboards are available in red cedar and pine. The building was sheathed in wood clapboards and survived two hurricanes. Coopers use oak clapboards to make barrel staves. They were simple homes with high-pitched roofs and overlapping weatherboards called clapboards. In North America clapboards were historically made of split oak, pine and spruce. Mills were built on the Mad River to grind grain or manufacture lumber and clapboards. Virtually all octagonal churches in Norway are constructed as log buildings mostly covered by clapboards. The exterior is finished in wooden clapboards. The outer walls were covered by clapboards.