Historical Housing Timeline Tague

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  • Hogan
    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.
  • English Half Timber
    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.
  • Adobe
    1500

    Adobe

    Still being made today. Generally built in warmer climates. They include thick walls and adobe brick
  • French Manor
    1500

    French Manor

    Balanced, symmetrical proportions, Brick exterior, Steep roofs, Tall second-story windows that is often with arched tops.
  • Spanish Stucco

    Spanish Stucco

    Built for warmer climates. Tiled roofs that are typically red, Arched windows, doors, and entryways, and stucco walls.
  • French Provincial

    French Provincial

    Balanced and symmetrical, arched windows and doors, with a brick exterior.
  • Southern Colonial

    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

    Sweedish Log cabin

    Small windows, gable roofs, build with logs and cement on the exterior.
  • English Cape Cod

    English Cape Cod

    Includes a steep roof, center chimney, shingles sides, and has a unornamented look
  • English Saltbox

    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

    Early Classic Revival

    Includes columns, side gable or low pitched hipped roof, large windows and doors, elliptical fanlight(window) over front doors
  • Georgian

    Georgian

    Bricked exterior, small rooms, symmetrical design, and a side-gabled or hipped roof.
  • Gothic Revival

    Gothic Revival

    A Gothic Revivial house includes pointed arched windows, steep pitched roofs porches, dormers, and/or roof gables.
  • Adam's

    Adam's

    Adams style house is very decorative, includes classic roman decorative motifs, framed medallion vases, and more.
  • Tide Water South

    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

    Tudor

    Steeply pitched gable roofs, playfully elaborate masonry chimneys, embellished doorway, groupings of windows, decorative half-timbering, wood framework.
  • Greek Revival

    Greek Revival

    Usually painted white to imitate expensive marble, has intricate details and pillars.
  • Victorian

    Victorian

    Includes, flat roofs, a turret or tower room
    sash windows, terraced housing or detached buildings, and usually with bricks and stones.
  • Italianate

    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

    Dutch Colonial

    The front door is divided horizontally, gambrel roofing, central entrance, and windows with small panes
  • English Garrison

    English Garrison

    2 stories with the second story overhang and small panes of glass or double hung windows.
  • French Normandy

    French Normandy

    Includes, arched doorways, half-timbering, hipped and mansard roof, and round towers
  • Split level

    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

    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

    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

    Earth Sheltered

    Energy efficient features, partly covered in ground.
  • Prarie Style

    Prarie Style

    Two story houses with horizontal lines, bulky chimneys, sloping roofs with overhangs, ribbon windows, and single story wings
  • Solar

    Solar

    Has solar panels that power the house. Very modern and energy efficient.
  • German

    German

    white exterior walls with black wood running across geometrically with gable roofing.