Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
Illustration: Tom Hennessy
DUTCH COLONIAL
Time: 1650-1710. Place: New York's Hudson Valley, New Jersey.
The gambrel roof built by Dutch settlers provided extra attic space.
SALTBOX
Time: 1670-1780. Place: New England.
The distinctive catslide roof sloughed off heavy snows and rain.
CAPE COD
Time: 1710-1850 Place: New England.
Abundant timber encouraged the expansion of a traditional one-room English cottage.
GEORGIAN
Time: 1720-1780. Place: East Coast to South
Builders copied from carpenter's manuals the classical designs favored in England.
FEDERAL
Time: 1780-1820 Place: East Coast to Midwest.
After the Revolution, Americans gave the Georgian style a simpler look.
GREEK REVIVAL
Time: 1825-1860. Place: East Coast.
Pride in democracy, first espoused by the Greeks, led to the popularity of ancient forms.
ITALIANATE
Time: 1840-1885 Place: Midwest.
Pattern books promoted this picturesque, informal design, a change from the classical trends.
SECOND EMPIRE
Time: 1855-1885 Place: Northeast to Midwest.
The French mansard roof gained the world's attention at exposition in Paris.
QUEEN ANNE
Time: 1880-1910 Place: All areas, especially the South and West.
This ornate style is what people most often refer to as "Victorian."
SHINGLE
Time: 1880-1900 Place: Seaside New England.
Today's architects have revived this hybrid of Colonial Revival and Queen Anne.
COLONIAL REVIVAL
Time: 1880-1955 Place: All areas.
The Centennial celebration of 1876 popularized the house forms of the country's founding days.
TUDOR REVIVAL
Time: 1890-1940 Place: All areas.
An asymetrical, English-manor look to counter its boxy Colonial Revival neighbors in suburbia.
PRAIRIE
Time: 1900-1920 Place: Midwest.
Low-slung designs by Frank Lloyd Wright and others echoed flat prairie landscapes.
CRAFTSMAN
Time: 1905-1930 Place: All areas.
The Arts and Crafts movement embodied simplicity, handiwork, and natural materials.
SPANISH REVIVAL
Time: 1915-1945 Place: California, Florida, Southwest
Romantic revivals celebrated Mediterranean and native heritages.
RANCH
Time: 1935-1975 Place: All areas.
California architect Cliff May's vision of Spanish ranches was simplified by suburban builders.
INTERNATIONAL
Time: 1930s-1990s Place: California, Northeast.
The unadorned geometry, too austere for housing, influenced public buildings.
POST-MODERN
Time: 1970s-present Place: All areas
An attempt to make modernist design more human by incorporating historic references.
