Architecture

Saltbox 1650

•New EnglandClapboard•Central Chimney•Sloping back roof line

Georgian/ FederalColonial

• Brick-often with contrasting brick coins or detailing

• Symmetrical—center door• Duel chimneys• Palladian influence• Vernacular form in clapboard—

also called I-house

Georgian/ Federal Colonial

Palladio

Greek Revival

1820-1850• Antebellum• Columns• Pediment porch• Temple effect• Painted white• In the North, may

have pilasters instead of columns

Cape Cod

• Cottage

• 1 ½ story

• Dormers

• Shingle or clapboard

Dutch Colonial

• Gambrel or “barn” roof

• Often dormers in the roof line

Carpenter Gothic

• Any material

• Gothic ornamentation

• Balloon framing

Carpenter Gothic

Victorian Style

• Victorian Time Period

• Victorian Styles– Victorian– Queen Anne– Second Empire– Gothic Revival

Queen Anne

Typically wood

• “gingerbread”-contrasting shingles, Unusual features such as octagon rooms, towers, bays

• Typically asymmetrical

• porches

Queen Anne

American Four Square

• Any material

• Square box

• Sometimes porch, lower roof line

• Midwestern, but found all over America

Times Change

• Houses began to have plumbing & electricity therefore, became more expensive to build

• Consumerism increases - Labor saving devices, clothes, & stuff

• Family size decreases b/c of 2nd Industrial Rev.

• Servants choose jobs in factories

Bungalow/Craftsman 1910-1930

• One or 1.5 stories

• Any material

• Low roof with overhanging eaves

• Planned suburban neighborhoods

• More compact, circular floor plan

• Only basic rooms

Sears kit homes

Other brand

Prairie Style

• Strong horizontal lines

• Brick, rock or stone with heavy wood detailing

• Frank Lloyd Wright influenced

• Deep overhanging eaves

Prairie Style

The Ranch House

• Brick

• Suburban neighborhoods

• One story

• Long and low—horizontal lines

• Porches on the back of house

The Split Level

• Main level entry, kitchen, living

• ½ story up bedrooms

• ½ story down den and garage

• Any material or combination

Contemporary • Flat roof or shed

• Elements of “Moderne” or International style—glass walls, concrete, steel

The Neo’s

• Georgian, colonial, French, Tudor

• McMansions

• Faux Chateaux