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Strange house decorations?

Does anyone know what religion/organization might have rooftop carved designs; and elsewhere on storage buildings and such. The top of the house had about five wooden white things about two feet tall and pointed. There was a white star inscribed in a circle painted on the shed. In the yard there were stone pillars abut 2 ft tall in a rectangle and some others scattered. He also had wood-carved gnomes in his yard with tin caps. The yard had wooden gateways/doorways here and there that led to nowhere just randomly there. The man who previously owned it was supposedly a preacher and the house is very old. We were thinking masons maybe. Is this just a case of creativity or something else? Thanks for your answers.

Without a photo to say otherwise, it just sounds like a old house with lots of “gingerbread”. (Ornate, usually carved wood decorations applied to a house for ornamentation.) It was very popular through most of the 19th century, and up until the Great Depression. The garden as described sounds like a typical “English” garden, also popular in the late 1800′s and early 1900′s.

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