Historical Housing Styles Duhachek

English-Half Timber

1200

The wood is exposed on the outside. Often a white house with dark wood constrasting against it.

Hogan

1400

Built with logs and mud; Door faces East.

French-Manor

1500

Hip Roofs, balanced, symmetrical proportions, brick exterior, steep roofs, and tall second-story windows (often with arched tops).

Adobe

1600

Thick walls with sun-dried Adobe bricks made of clay soil, sand and straw. Very energy efficent.

Swedish-Log Cabin

1600

Gable roofs, logs, and cement runnings. Horzonatal stripes with small windows and a fireplace on the inside.

English-Saltbox

1600

Two stories in the front and then the house slopes downwards and only has one story in the back. The roof is known as a catslide roof. Helps people aviod paying taxes for a two story house.

French-Provincial

1600

Most often have balanced and symmetrical proportions, arched windows and doors, and brick exterior.

Tudor

1600

Wooden frame with sticks and wet clay filling the spaces. It had a "black and white" effect.

Spanish-Stucoo

1700

Stucco coated walls, instead of sliding, designed to keep cool in hot climates. Flat or gentky sloped red roofs.

English-Cape Cod

1700

Teep roof, a center chimney, windows, side shingles, and an unornamented look.

Georgian

1700

Symmetrical design, classic proportions, decorative elements, side-gabled or hipped roof.

Gothic Revival

1700

Pointed arch used for windows and doors. Some of the decorative elements include proches, dormers, and gable roofs. They also have steeply pitched roofs.

Southern Colonial

1700

A large, two or three story frame house with a symmetrical design. Two story columns extend across the entire front, covered by roof extension. The roof is hip or gable shutters and a small room on the roof of the house (lookout) is called the Belvedere.

Adams

1760

Very unique house with creative decoration and a very pastel color scheme.

Tidewater South

1800

Large wrap around porch, hipped roofs, and designed for hot weather.

Early Classic Revival

1800

Full height entry porch with pediment and columns, elliptical fanlight over the paneled front door, and symmetrically aligned windows and doors.

Greek Revival

1800

Painted white to imitate exspensive marble. It frequently contained intricate details and pillars out front of the house.

Victorian

1800

Sash windows: these functioned by sliding the bottoms half of the window upwards. Houses were built out of bricks or local stone with slanted roofs.

Italianate

1850

Two or more stories, hip roof, box with a centered gable, L or U plan, L plan with a tower and a front gable, wide projecting cornices with heavy brackets and they richly ornamented windows, porches, and doorways.

Prairie Style

1890

Pairie style homes were typically two story houses with single story wings. Important features of Prairie houses were horizantial lines, ribbon windows, big, bulky chimneys, sloping roofs, overhangs, and gardens.

Bungalow

1890

Bungalows often have the windows close to the roof. They have a living space on the first floors and bedrooms on the upper level.

English-Garrison

1900

2 stories/second story overhang. Small panes of glass or double hung windows.

Dutch Colonial

1900

Divided in half horizantally, Gambel roofs, central entrance, off-center chimney, and windows with small panes.

French-Normady

1900

Hipped and Mansard Roof, arched doorways, half-timbering and round towers.

International Style

1900

White, plain, modern look. Very sheek and syafisticated.

Solar

1930

Windows, walls, and doors designed to store and reflect solar energy. Panels on the roof and a very high tech house.

Split-Level

1940

Split-level houses are very innovative in its use of spacing. There is a main level with your basic rooms like a kitchen and living room and then a staircase that could lead to the bedrooms and another staircase leading down to the basement or laundry room.

Ranch

1950

Ranch houses are long and low, consisting typically of only one level (and then the basement). They offer attached garages, open floor plans, and a basic exterior. Which allows for owners to customize the home.

Earth-Sheltered

1970

Energy efficent and deisgned to blend into natural and its surronding. Lots of windoes and muted colors.

German

1990

One story house with a bog room and partial walls. White outer walls with dark wood running sideways across the exterior.