I've got a peaked roof lid on a Langstroth hive in my backyard.  I
acquired it with a purchase some years ago, then chose to keep it
with the hobby hives I've got.  Utterly impractical in a commercial
sense (stacking hives two deep on the truck???) but it looks OK in
the garden...
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