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Architecture

Explore the development of American architectural styles from the traditional New England Saltbox and Georgian/Federal Colonial designs to the elaborate Victorian Queen Anne and the modern-day McMansions. Discover the features, materials, and influences that shaped each style throughout history.

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Architecture

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  1. Architecture

  2. Saltbox 1650 New England Clapboard Central Chimney Sloping back roof line

  3. Georgian/ FederalColonial • Brick-often with contrasting brick coins or detailing • Symmetrical—center door • Duel chimneys • Palladian influence • Vernacular form in clapboard—also called I-house

  4. Georgian/ Federal Colonial

  5. Palladio

  6. Greek Revival1820-1850 • Antebellum • Columns • Pediment porch • Temple effect • Painted white • In the North, may have pilasters instead of columns

  7. Cape Cod • Cottage • 1 ½ story • Dormers • Shingle or clapboard

  8. Dutch Colonial • Gambrel or “barn” roof • Often dormers in the roof line

  9. Carpenter Gothic • Any material • Gothic ornamentation • Balloon framing

  10. Carpenter Gothic

  11. Victorian Style • Victorian Time Period • Victorian Styles • Victorian • Queen Anne • Second Empire • Gothic Revival

  12. Queen Anne Typically wood • “gingerbread”-contrasting shingles, Unusual features such as octagon rooms, towers, bays • Typically asymmetrical • porches

  13. Queen Anne

  14. American Four Square • Any material • Square box • Sometimes porch, lower roof line • Midwestern, but found all over America

  15. Times Change • Houses began to have plumbing & electricity therefore, became more expensive to build • Consumerism increases - Labor saving devices, clothes, & stuff • Family size decreases b/c of 2nd Industrial Rev. • Servants choose jobs in factories

  16. Bungalow/Craftsman 1910-1930 • One or 1.5 stories • Any material • Low roof with overhanging eaves • Planned suburban neighborhoods • More compact, circular floor plan • Only basic rooms

  17. Sears kit homes

  18. Other brand

  19. Prairie Style • Strong horizontal lines • Brick, rock or stone with heavy wood detailing • Frank Lloyd Wright influenced • Deep overhanging eaves

  20. Prairie Style

  21. The Ranch House • Brick • Suburban neighborhoods • One story • Long and low—horizontal lines • Porches on the back of house

  22. The Split Level • Main level entry, kitchen, living • ½ story up bedrooms • ½ story down den and garage • Any material or combination

  23. Contemporary • Flat roof or shed • Elements of “Moderne” or International style—glass walls, concrete, steel

  24. The Neo’s • Georgian, colonial, French, Tudor • McMansions • Faux Chateaux

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