American Period Styles of Housing
By: Mandi and Gina
Brick Row House & Brownstone
Also called brownstone front. a building, especially a row house, fronted with this stone.
Adam/Federal
The Adam style was found from the late 1760s in upper-class and middle-class residences in 18th-century England, Scotland, Russia (where it was introduced by Scottish architect Charles Cameron), and post-Revolutionary War United States
Romantic Revival-Greek Revival
Greek Revival is a style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevalent in the U.S. and in parts of Europe in the first half of the 19th century, characterized by a close imitation of ancient Greek designs.
Romantic Revival-Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival is a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London in the 1840.
Romantic Revival-Italianate
Romantic Revival-Italianate style is noting to a mid-Victorian American style remotely based on Romanesque vernacular residential and castle architecture of the Italian countryside.
Victorian-Mansard Style
Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. Victorian refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), called the Victorian era, during which period the styles known as Victorian were used in construction
Victorian-Queen Anne
The Victorian era, during which period the styles known as Victorian were used in construction
Tudor (Elizabethan)
The Tudor architectural style is the final development of Medieval architecture in England during 1485–1603 and beyond. It followed the Perpendicular style
Neo-Classical
Neo-Classical is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century. In its purest form it is a style principally derived from the architecture of Classical antiquity. the Vitruvian principles and the architecture from the Italian architect Andrea Palladio
Bungalow (Craftsman)
Bungalow is a type of building and a across the world, the word bungalow has different meanings. Common features of many bungalows include verandas and being low-rise.
Ranch
Ranch is a domestic architectural style originating in the United States. The ranch house is noted for its long, close-to-the-ground profile, and minimal use of exterior and interior decoration. The houses fuse modernist ideas and styles with notions of the American Western period working ranches to create a casual living style.
Prairie
Prairie was a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style and is mostly common in the Midwestern United States.
Mission
Spanish mission style houses include smooth stucco siding,
roof parapets, large square pillars, twisted columns, arcaded entry porch, round or quatrefoil window, and red tile roof
International
The International Style is the name of a major architectural style that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s which was the formative decades of modern architecture.
Colonial Revival-Southern Colonial
Southern Colonial is an American architectural style which evolved in the Southern Colonies during the Colonial period. It is defined to be a large, early American style, 2- or 3-story frame house with a characteristic colonnade extending across the front. The roof extends over the colonnade.
Colonial Revival-Dutch Colonial
Dutch Colonial is a style of domestic architecture, primarily characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves along the length of the house. Modern versions built in the early 20th century are more accurately referred to as Dutch Colonial Revival.
Colonial Revival-Spanish Colonial
a style of architecture with characteristics of Spanish America.
Colonial Revival-New England Cape Cod
A Cape Cod cottage is a style of house originating in New England in the 17th century. It is traditionally characterized by a low, broad frame building, generally a story and a half high, with a steep, pitched roof with end gables, a large central chimney and very little ornamentation.
Colonial Revival-New England Saltbox
It is a Colonial style of architecture which originated in New England. Saltboxes are frame houses with two stories in front and one in back, having a pitched roof with unequal sides, being short and high in front and long and low in back. The front of the house is flat and the rear roof line is steeply sloped.
Colonial Revival-Georgian
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1830. The style was revived in the late 19th century in the United States as Colonial Revival architecture and in the early 20th century in the Great Britain; referred to as Neo-Georgian architecture
Neo-Eclectic
Neo-eclectic architecture is a name for an architecture name that has influenced residential building construction in North America in the later part of the 20th century and early part of the 21st.
Contemporary
Contemporary architecture is defined as the building style of the present day. The style varies
Traditional
Traditional architecture is a design that is "traditional" meaning the style of the home/building. It does not go out of style
Post Modern
Split-Level
Emerged as a popular variant of the ranch style during the third quarter of the 20th century. It has a room or rooms higher than others by less than a whole story.
Shed Style
Shed Style refers to a style of architecture that makes use of planar angled roofs as commonly called "shed roofs" as opposed to the common gable roof, and a heavy overall use of exposed wooden surfaces. Such structures are often inspired by traditional mountain lodge architecture.
Innovative-A-Frame
An A-frame house is an architectural house style featuring steeply-angled sides (roofline) that usually begin at or near the foundation line, and meet at the top in the shape of the letter A. An A-frame ceiling can be open to the top rafters.
Innovative-Geodesic Dome
A geodesic dome is a spherical or partial-spherical shell structure or lattice shell based on a network of great circles on the surface of a sphere.