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
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