Architectural House Styles
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American Period Styles of Housing
Chaithra Katamaneni - Interior Design - Period 4
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- modest scale and simple architectural ornaments that are inspired by Greek and Roman architecture
- 2-3 stories big with basement and attic 1/2 story with dormer windows with stone window sills and paneled lintels
- roof: metal or slate peaked
- brownstone base with brick upper facade
- 6 over 6 double hung wood windows (sometimes with wood panelling on the sides) with classical wood cornice with dentils, modillions, and moldings
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Romantic Revival
Greek,Gothic, and Italianate
- characterized by simple and bold architectural elements that imitate Greek motifs
- three to three and one-half stories high with basement (sometimes has an attic story below the cornice)
- brownstone base with brick upper facade laid in English bond
- medium height stoop with wrought or cast- iron handrails, fence, and newels.
- vertical paneled wood door
- grand entrance plaster, sidelights, and stone enframements
- structured with 6 over 6 double hung windows, 6 over 9 often on parlor floor, an sometimes small attic windows
- modest molded stone window lintels and sills
wood dentiled cornice
Gothic Revival
1840-1860
- inspired architectural elements by organic and natural forms, medievalism, and picturesque
- bold, projecting ornament
- flat roof
- brick with brownstone trim or full brownstone facade
- medium sized stoop with case iron handrails, fence, and newels with elaborate gothic motifs
- recessed doorway with paneled wood for with pointed arches and occasional trefoils or quartefoils
- horizontal hood molding or low Tudor arch or combination of the two with foliated spandrel carving around the door
- stone window lintels: picturesque hood
- multi-pared double hung windows or multi-pared wood casement windows
- plain Greek Revival style or boldly projecting Italiante style cornice
- characterized by bold, elaborate, projecting ornaments that emphasize receptive forms
- 2 to 4 stories high with brownstone basement
- full brownstone facade
-high, wide stoop with elaborate cast-iron handrails, balusters, fence, and newels
- deeply recessed doorway with heavily protruding door hood and console brackets
- round-headed double-leaf doors with heavily molded arched panels
- large-double-hung two-ver-two or one-over-one windows with heavy munitions to imitate casement windows
- heavy, projecting stone window lintels and sills or full window enframements
- heavy, imposing, projecting cornice that s embellished with molding and supported by rectangular or scroll-shaped brackets
Victorian
Mansard Style and Queen Anne
Mansard Style
Queen Anne
Tudor (Elizabethan)
Neo-Classical
Bungalow (Craftsman)
Ranch
Prairie
Mission
International
Colonial Revival
Southern, Dutch, Spanish, New England Cape Cod & Saltbox, Georgian
