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1400
Hogan
Built making an octagon by the Navajo Native Americans. Typically build using logs and mud for insulation. Door faces East and window faces West. -
1400
English Half Timber
External and internal walls are constructed of timber frames and the spaces between the structural members are filled with such materials as brick, plaster, or wattle and daub. -
1500
Adobe
Still being made today. Generally built in warmer climates. They include thick walls and adobe brick -
1500
French Manor
Balanced, symmetrical proportions, Brick exterior, Steep roofs, Tall second-story windows that is often with arched tops. -
Spanish Stucco
Built for warmer climates. Tiled roofs that are typically red, Arched windows, doors, and entryways, and stucco walls. -
French Provincial
Balanced and symmetrical, arched windows and doors, with a brick exterior. -
Southern Colonial
Evolving from a Greek revival, a SOuthern colonial house includes a symmetrical design, two-story columns, a hip or gable roof, and a small room on the roof- belvedere. -
Sweedish Log cabin
Small windows, gable roofs, build with logs and cement on the exterior. -
English Cape Cod
Includes a steep roof, center chimney, shingles sides, and has a unornamented look -
English Saltbox
The roof slides down the second story to the first so the back is only one story. They did this so the residents did not have to pay tax for having two stories. -
Early Classic Revival
Includes columns, side gable or low pitched hipped roof, large windows and doors, elliptical fanlight(window) over front doors -
Georgian
Bricked exterior, small rooms, symmetrical design, and a side-gabled or hipped roof. -
Gothic Revival
A Gothic Revivial house includes pointed arched windows, steep pitched roofs porches, dormers, and/or roof gables. -
Adam's
Adams style house is very decorative, includes classic roman decorative motifs, framed medallion vases, and more. -
Tide Water South
Generally built as lake or beach houses. Large wrap-around porches, hip roofs, and are made for hot and wet climates. -
Tudor
Steeply pitched gable roofs, playfully elaborate masonry chimneys, embellished doorway, groupings of windows, decorative half-timbering, wood framework. -
Greek Revival
Usually painted white to imitate expensive marble, has intricate details and pillars. -
Victorian
Includes, flat roofs, a turret or tower room
sash windows, terraced housing or detached buildings, and usually with bricks and stones. -
Italianate
L or U plan with a tower, and a front gable., wide projecting cornices with heavy, brackets and their richly, ornamented windows, porches, and doorways. -
Dutch Colonial
The front door is divided horizontally, gambrel roofing, central entrance, and windows with small panes -
English Garrison
2 stories with the second story overhang and small panes of glass or double hung windows. -
French Normandy
Includes, arched doorways, half-timbering, hipped and mansard roof, and round towers -
Split level
very innovative in use of spacing. large garage. the main level has basic rooms, kitchen, living room etc. more room and a perfect house for families -
Ranch
allows owners to customize the house. Long and low, one level/basement, and offers attached garages, open floorplans, and a basic exterior. -
International Style
Very modern housing. Includes light, taut plane surfaces, open interior spaces, is visually weightless, glass, steel, and concrete are common materials used in the build. -
Earth Sheltered
Energy efficient features, partly covered in ground. -
Prarie Style
Two story houses with horizontal lines, bulky chimneys, sloping roofs with overhangs, ribbon windows, and single story wings -
Solar
Has solar panels that power the house. Very modern and energy efficient. -
German
white exterior walls with black wood running across geometrically with gable roofing.
