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There are many styles of historic homes built throughout the years, some very simple in design and others maximizing every possible detail. Here at OldHouses.com we will attempt to document architectural house styles and examples to inform and assist you when identifying a historical home.
4 de jan. de 2024 · There are iconic house styles that dot the American landscape and, whether you're buying an old or new house, you're sure to recognize some of these charming, grand, and modern homes. A few of the most popular styles include American Craftsman, Cape Cod, ranch, colonial, contemporary, and Victorian but there are numerous others.
- Log Cabin
- Saltbox
- Georgian
- Federal
- Greek Revival
- Gothic Revival
- Italianate
- Second Empire
- Queen Anne
- Shingle
Dates:up to 1850s. Features:Log walls; one- to three-room layout, sometimes with a center passage (called a dogtrot). The earliest settler houses went up quickly, using the most abundant material around—wood—to protect against the harsh weather. Log cabins were common in the middle Atlantic colonies, like this Appalachian house.
Dates:1607 to early 1700s Features:Steeply pitched (catslide) roof that reaches to first story in the back; massive central chimney; small windows of diamond paned casements or double-hung sash with nine or 12 lights. Most saltboxes existed in and around New England. Their steep roof pitch is a holdover from the days of thatching, but early settler...
Dates:1700 to 1780 Features:Symmetrical facade; double-hung windows with nine or 12 lights in each sash; paneled door with pilasters, transom lights, and sometimes a pedimented crown; brick in the South, clapboards in the North; dentil molding at the cornice. American Georgian architecture is based on earlier European styles (not the British Georgi...
Dates:1780 to 1820 Features:Symmetrical facade; 6-over-6 double-hung windows with shutters; paneled door with elaborate surround (pediment, pilasters, sidelights, and fanlight); dentil molding or other decoration at cornice. Based almost entirely on the English Adamesque style, the American Federal (or Adam) style took its cues from ancient Roman a...
Dates:1825 to 1860 Features:Pedimented gable ends, portico or full-width porch with classical columns, 6-over-6 windows with pediments. Americans, newly enamored with Greek democracy, built civic buildings that looked like Greek temples. The fashion for columns and pediments seeped into residential architecture as far as the most rural farmland, po...
Dates:1840 to 1880 Features:Steeply pitched roof with decorated bargeboard and cross gables, arched gothic windows and doors with arched panels, first-floor porch. The Gothic Revival is another trend that started in England and made its way to the U.S. The style mimics the shapes found on Medieval churches and houses, and is almost always found in ...
Dates:1840 to 1885 Features:Hip roof with deep, bracketed eaves; arched 1-over-1 or 2-over-2 windows with elaborate crowns; paired-door entryway with glass in the doors. Again modeled after a fashion started in England, the Italianate style rejected the rigid rules of classical architecture and instead looked to the more informal look of Italian ru...
Dates:1855 to 1885 Features:Mansard roof (hipped with two pitches) with dormers set into it and patterned shingles, deep eaves with decorative brackets, 2-over-2 or 1-over-1 windows with elaborate hoods or pediments. The style is closely related to Italianate, but is always characterized by its mansard roof, named for the 17th-century French archit...
Dates:1880 to 1910 Features:Asymmetrical house shape with intersecting roof lines, turrets and bay windows; first floor porch; patterned shingles and decorative trim. The Queen Anne style—what most people would call “Victorian”—is the first product of the American Industrial Age. After the Civil War, munitions factories converted to make metal hous...
Dates:1880 to 1900 Features:Exterior walls and roofs of wood shingles; asymmetrical house shape, often organic to the landscape around it; large porches; intersecting roofs of different shapes, including gambrel. A style mostly popular along the coast in the Northeast, Shingle houseswere usually large architects’ masterpieces, free-form mansions bu...
12 de set. de 2023 · These homes are in American Colonial, New England, English Colonial, Dutch Colonial, English Manor, Italian, Spanish, or Mission styles, assuring a wide choice in design as well as in size and materials.
12 de jan. de 2022 · Different house styles are defined by their architecture. The US has a whole host of house styles, often influenced by house styles of the UK, Europe and beyond, and all reflect the trends, level of wealth and sometimes just the general mood of the era in which they were designed and built.
26 de fev. de 2024 · Victorian Houses: Everything You Need to Know. Named for the famous 19th-century queen, this classic style of residential architecture has transcended her reign. By Morgan Goldberg.
22 de mar. de 2022 · Located across the US, Colonial style homes range from sought after historic homes to the more modern Colonial Revival properties. We've rounded up everything you need to know about Colonial style houses inside and out below.
