Housing Styles
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 Many
current home designs are
modifications of Early American styles.
 As the country has grown, styles have
spread across the continent.
 Styles have been modified to fit weather
conditions, terrain, local available
materials and the economy.
 Today, technology has made it possible to
adapt many housing styles.
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 All
houses of a certain style do not look
identical
 Architects and builders often add their
personal stamps
 Look for an overall “feeling” of a style
and design details
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 Architectural
 Each
history divided into periods
Period
• Historical events
• Characteristic styles
 One
period may flow into another and
may overlap
 Historical homes that remain were built
of durable materials
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 1640-1720
 American
architecture dates back to the
colonial times.
 English settlements looked very much
like the homes left behind in England
(Half Timbered homes).
 North eastern colonies consisted of many
Cape Cod Style homes.
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 Rectangular
Design
 Central chimney
 Pitched roof
 Interior divided into one large room
(great room) and one or two small rooms
 If 2 stories, limited space on 2nd floor
 Prompted the invention of the gambrel
roof
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 Began
as a two-story pitched roof house
 Additional set of rooms was built along
the back side of the house
 Roof line brought down to cover the
added rooms
 The roof slope resembled the cover of
the wooden salt boxes of that time
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 The
second story projects out over the
first story
 Taken from Elizabethan houses in the late
1500s
 The overhang was used for protection
back then to prevent intruders from
scaling the wall
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 House
built of adobe, brick or stucco
 Stucco – plaster material made with
cement, sand and lime
 Rounded archways and windows
 Tiled roofs; often mission tile
 Inner courtyards
 Balconies and porches that went around
the outside of the house
 Similar to the Mission Style
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 High, steep
roofs
 Wood or stone
 Porch covered by a broad roof
 Many doors and windows to allow for the
flow of air
 Galleries or roofed balconies added
 Posts supporting balconies were made of
wood or ornamental iron
 French Quarter, New Orleans
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Photo taken in the
French Quarter, LA.
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 Much Variation
• Frontier-Rough shelters
• East coast- Elegant homes and furniture
• Immigrant Style English/timber, sawed into boards,
 Dutch/stone & brick,
 German/wood & quarry stone,
 Swedes/squared logs,
 Spanish/cut stone and adobe brick
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 Georgian
Period
• Link to England
• Prosperity
• Formal Style popular in England
 Federal
Period
• Attitude toward England changed
• Won American Revolution
• Styles that expressed America’s Independence
• Adam Style and Early Classical Revival Style
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 Style
that was popular in England named
after King George I, II and III
 Constructed of brick and stone
 Contrasting materials (red brick and
white wood)
 Central chimney or chimney at each end
of the house
 Formal balanced design
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 2-3
stories high
 Pitched roof with gable or hip roof
 Symmetrically placed large windows
(with many small panes)
 Front door focal point of house (with
pilasters and a pediment)
 Door with decorative panels
 Distinctive cornice
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 Square
or rectangular
 Central section with at wing on each side
(kitchen/offices and guest wing)
 Central hall with wide staircase
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 Built
by factory owners for renting to
their employees
 Continuous line of two- or three-story
homes that share a common wall
 Also called Brownstone or town homes
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 Made
up of two periods:
 Romantic Revival Period
• More frequent travel prompted styles from other
areas
• Greek Revival Style – Southern Plantation style;
used in many public buildings
• Gothic Revival Style - Pointed arches and
circular windows with ornamental carved stone
• Italianate Style – Square two-stories with wide
overhanging hip roofs; long narrow windows
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 Victorian
Period
• 1860-end of century
• Very elaborate homes
• Detail taken from medieval and European styles
• Mansard and Queen Anne - popular styles in this
period
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 1870-1880s
A
popular Victorian style
 Irregular steep roof
 Ornamental gables
 Decorative wood shingles for siding
 Wraparound porches with railings and
columns
 Circular tower that extends the entire height
of the building
 Gingerbread detailing (lacy-look cutout
wood trim)
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 Period
Revival Styles
• Brought back Georgian, Saltbox, and Cape Cod
 Modern
Styles
• Architects wanted to create something different
• Prairie, Craftsman and International
 Postwar
Modern Styles
• New innovative styles
• Contemporary, Split-Level and Shed
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 1890-1940
 Features
a half timbered look
 Steeply pitched gables at the front and
sides
 Tall, narrow windows placed in groups
with many small panes
 Massive chimneys
 Stucco, brick and stone exteriors
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 Distinctive
door and window features
 Prominent door with pediment and
pilasters (entry porch)
 Symmetrical windows in pairs
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 20th
century design
 Originated with Frank Lloyd Wright
 Horizontal lines
 Low pitched roofs with overhanging
eaves
 Wide porches
 Row of leaded glass windows
 Rooms flow into each other (open
spacious feel)
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 Early
1950s-1960s
 Low long, one-story house
 Low pitched gable or hip roof
 Decorative shutters
 Decorative wooden or iron porch roof
supports
 Picture windows
 Outdoor living areas in the rear
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 Popular
in the 1950s
 Modification o f the Ranch-Style homes
 Horizontal lines, low pitched roof
 Three levels of living space connected
with short flights of stairs
 May have a basement
 Takes advantage of a sloping lot
 May be built on a level lot
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 Environment
 History
 Political
Conditions
 Economic conditions
 Social Conditions
 Past used as inspiration
 Elements of styles combined to create
new styles
 New forms and shapes
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