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Dec 1, 1400
Native American (1400-1500)
The main types of Native American Houses are teepees. They are pointy, tent-like homes. They are cone shaped witha wooden stick in the middle of them. -
Dec 1, 1550
Half Timbered (1550-1603)
The second story overhang was supported by wooden brackets. The house also has exposed wood framings. As well as plaster and masonry filing between timbers that could not closed. -
Cape Cod (1600-Present)
The roof is pitched allowing for a second floor. There is a large central chimney in the house. Also the house shape is a low broad building. -
Garrison (1600-Present)
A garrison is an architectural style of house, typically two stories with the second story overhanging in the front. The traditional ornamentation is four carved drops (pineapple, strawberry or acorn shape) below the overhang. Garrisons usually have an exterior chimney at the end -
Southern Colonial (1600-1800)
The house ia a form of the Greek Rivival style. There is usuaklly a porch that wraps around the whole house. ANother identifying feauture is birck and symmetry of the house. -
French (1620-1760)
They have decorative half-timbering. A round tower at entryway Also have an arched doorway -
Georgian (1695-1750 Early and 1750-1790 Late)
There are multi-pane windows and fenestrations arranged symmetrically (whether vertical or horizontal), usually 5 across. The chimney's are usually on the side of the home. The roofs are side-gabled. -
Saltbox (1700-1760)
This style is colonial New England farm home. There is one story in the back and two stories in the front. The roof is pitched up and slopes down to the back. -
Federal Adam (1780-1820)
Adam houses have two-stories, a rectangular construction, and a side gable or low-hipped roof. There is usually semi-circular or elliptical fanlights over front entry -
Federal – Classical Revival ( 1785 - 1815)
Typically, a Federal style house is a simple square or rectangular box, two or three stories high and two rooms deep. -
Greek Rivival (1820-1865)
The houses are usually white with pillars on the front porch. Usuually the houses are made out of stucco and wood. The details are simples but inspired from the Roman Greeks. -
Italianate (1840-1885)
Italianate houses have large eave brackets dominate cornice lines arranged singly or in pairs. The windows are tall and narrow. Bay windows are also common. -
Gothic Revival (1840-1880)
The windows are square-topped with hood molds. There are doors with pointed arches or gothic motifs and decorative crowns; some batten doors. Porches are commonly supported by flattened gothic arches. -
Mansard (1852-1870)
Mansard's have a one story porch. They also have a patterned-shingle roof. Also they have decorative windows. -
Log Cabin (1880-1920)
A log house (or log home) is structurally identical to a log cabin (a house typically made from logs that have not been milled into conventional lumber).Log houses which settle require slip joints over all window and door openings, adjustable jacks under vertical elements (such as columns and staircases) which must periodically be adjusted as the building settles, allowances in plumbing, wiring, and ducting runs, and fasteners for the walls themselves to prevent uplift -
Arts and Craft (1880-Present)
The homes are built with real stone, wood, and brick. The ceiling is low pitched with beams hanging down. The rooms are typically open following the open floor plan layout. -
Queen Anne Victorian (1880-1910
Queen Anne houses have circular towers, decorstive windows, and also sometimes a front porch. -
Bungalow (1900’s-1930)
A low house, cabin or cottage of one or one-and-a-half stories, with a low-pitched gable or hipped roof, often with dormer windows, overhanging eves, and exposed rafters and beams. -
Dutch (1900-1930)
he gambrel style allowed an almost complete second floor without the expense of two-story construction. The Dutch Colonial Revival style is distinguished by its gambrel roof, with or without flared eaves, and the frequent use of dormers -
Praries Style (1908-1920)
Pririe houses are usually one or two-stories. They have a low-pitched roof. Also they have broad, overhanging eaves. -
Spanish (1915-1931
The red clay roof tops give the homes a warm, earthy, rustic look. They usually have curves or archways. Also they have tower like chimneys. -
German (1930-60's)
A simple, clear structure with white walls resting on a stone foundation, and with narrowly overhanging roof fits perfectly into the landscape. -
International (1932-Present)
Usually a square or rectangular footprint. Possessed a simple cubic "extruded rectangle" form. The windows run in broken horizontal rows forming a grid.
