Assignment #5 Housing Styles

Housing Styles





Tudor 
-The Tudor house is one of the most easily recognizable architectural styles in the world. While the style has been popular in England for centuries, the Tudor revival in America began around the turn of the 20th century. Most of these homes were lavishly built by the wealthy, although many of the homes from the latter part of the 20th century are quite modest.

Neo-Classical(Greek Revival)
-The Neoclassical Revival style is defined by a commanding facade with a full height porch, its roof supported by classical columns. The columns are often fluted and the capitals are usually ornate Ionic or Corinthian. Like the Colonial Revival, which is comparatively simple, the Neoclassical Revival is also symmetrical with its entry centered and flanked by a balanced array of windows.

Queen Anne
-A style of architecture and furniture reviving elements of Queen Anne design, popular especially in England in the late 19th century.

Bungalow
-A low house, with a broad front porch, having either no upper floor or upper rooms set in the roof, typically with dormer windows.

Ranch/Split Level
-Ranch-style houses peaked in popularity by the 1960's, when middle-class families were settling into suburban areas. The style of home provided space needed for growing families to live comfortably. Ranch-style houses were one of the first in American history to begin attaching garages to the family home.

Prairie Style
-This Frank Lloyd Wright design was to be available for the average person. Note wide overhangs, hipped roof, and bands of casements windows.

Colonial Revival(Georgian)

-This 20th Century Georgian demonstrates a symmetrical facade (spoiled only by the attached garage). Note the front door surround with it's suggestions of pillars. Front door features sidelights. This style lacks a central chimmney.

International School
-This house "floats" on pillars and is an exercise in geometrical lines and space.

Cape Cod Style
-Note the large central chimney, gabled dormers, and shingled facade. The front door uses wood trim to hint at classical pillars.

Colonial Revival (Dutch)
-Gambrel roof with front shed dormer. This house was available by mail order from Montgomery Ward in 1927.

Neo-Eclectic
-This contemporary house features a Palladian window motif, decorated font gables suggestive of a Queen Anne style, and a front porch.