HOUSE STYLES

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

• HOUSE STYLES

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Architectural Style Periods

• Colonial
• Mid-19th Century
• Late Victorian
• Late 19 th Early 20th Century
• Modern Movement

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COLONIAL 1680-1790

• French Colonial
• Spanish Colonial
• Dutch Colonial
• Elizabethan
• Tudor
• New England (Cape Cod, Saltbox, Garrison)
• Georgian (Southern Colonial)
• Flemish Colonial
• Mexican Baroque

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Spanish Colonial

• 1 2 stories
• Spanish clay roof tiles
• Plain white stucco walls
• Often has arched openings with wooden beams

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Dutch Colonial

• Major distinction is the Gambrel roof
• Roof style allows for more space on upper floor

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Elizabethan

• High pitched roof
• Massive chimney
• Exterior stonewalls
• Small windows

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TUDOR

• High pitched roof
• Massive chimney
• Major feature half timber siding
• Small windows

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Cape Cod Colonial

• Typically 1.5 floors.
• Gable roof
• Center staircase to upstairs
• Center chimney

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Saltbox

• Rear has a sloping roof to the first floor
• Originated from a 2 story colonial
• Back part was added for more space.

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Garrison

• Cantilevered 2nd level
• Usually ornamental work under overhang
• 2nd floor windows usually smaller than 1st floor
• Symmetrical design

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Georgian 1700-1800

• Classical symmetry
• 4 over 4 floor plan
• Central or end chimneys
• Classical detailing

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Federal 1780-1820

• Fan light over door
• Palladian windows
• Greek detailing of entryway
• Symmetrical rooms as Georgian style
• Double hung sash windows

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MID-19th CENTURY

• Greek Revival
• Gothic Revival
• Early Romanesque
• Moorish Revival
• Octagon Mode

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Greek Revival 1800-1850

• Gable or hipped low pitch roof
• Porches w/ square or round columns
• Fancy corner work

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Gothic Revival 1840-1880

• Steeply pitched roof
• Gothic window above entryway
• Porches with gothic arches
• First appearance of asymmetrical floor plans

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Early Romanesque 1880-1900

• Round arches over doors windows
• Cavernous entryways windows
• Thick masonry walls
• Rounded towers w/ conical towers

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LATE VICTORIAN

• Victorian
• Victorian Gothic
• Queen Anne Revival
• Second Empire
• Stick
• Italian Renaissance
• Second Gothic Revival

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Victorian

• Features
• Arose during Industrial Revolution
• Intricate house design
• Ornate in materials craftmanship

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Victorian Gothic1840-1940

• Steeply pitched roofs
• Based on medieval castles cathedrals
• Came in time with romantic movements in the arts

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Queen Anne Revival 1880-1900

• Steeply pitched irregular roofs
• Dominant front facing gable
• Decorative ornamentation
• Different wall textures are trademark

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Second Empire 1860-1880

• Basic Italianate style with Mansard roof
• Dormer windows
• Floor plan often includes pavilions (outward
  projection of buildings center or side)

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Stick 1860-1890

• Major feature small horizontal/vertical or
  diagonal planks placed on top of exterior walls
• Often associated with Swiss Chalet type

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LATE 19th EARLY 20th Century

• Sullivanesque
• Mission
• Italianate
• Bungalow/Craftsman
• Western Stick
• Bungaloid
• Prairie
• Beaux Arts Classicism

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Mission 1900-1940

• Originated in California
• First style to diffuse eastward from west
• Exposed rafters
• Red-tiled roof
• Stucco walls
• Arched windows doors

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ITALIANATE 1850-1880

• Features
• Arches
• Low pitched roofs
• Ceramic or stone roof
• Fancy entrances
• Rooftop cupola
• Defining element are decorative L-brackets under
  overhang

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Bungalow/Craftsman 1900-1920

• Low pitched gable roof
• Long overhangs
• Incised porch (beneath main frame)
• Square/round columns supporting roof

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Prairie 1900-1950

• Developed at the beginning of 20th century by
  Chicago architects (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• 2 story rectangular structure
• Hipped roof
• Overhanging eaves
• Casement windows

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MODERN MOVEMENT

• California Ranch
• Post-Modern
• Wrightian
• Art Deco
• Art Moderne
• Neo-Expressionism

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California Ranch

• Long rectangular
• shaped
• Low pitched or hip
• roof
• Single story or split
• level

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Post Modern

• Architecture appearing after 1970
• Referred to neoeclectic representing a revival
  period style

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Art Deco 1925-1940

• Emphasis on future rather than past
• Uses a style of decoration
• Not used often in homes