I got most of these images from a power point presentation created by Samantha Siker and found on this web-site:

http://www.uwec.edu/Geography/Ivogeler/w367/styles/index.htm

House Types

Italianate: 1840-1870s

•Low, hipped roofs

•Overhanging eaves

•Decorative brackets

Single Story Italianate or Italianate Cottage: 1865-1885

Gothic Revival: 1830-1880s

•Pointed arches

•Steep gable roofs

•Lacy bargeboard

Greek Revival: 1840-1890

•Temple-front

•2 stories

•Columns, pilasters

Colonial Revival (1880s-present)

Colonial Revival Cottage: 1895-1915

Neo-Dutch Colonial: 1900-

1940•Gambrel roof

•Dormers

•Symmetrical

Prairie: 1900-1950s

•Overhanging eaves

•Broad, hipped and/or flat roofs

•Horizontal appearance

Monterey Revival: (1925-1955)

Second Empire: 1870-1880s

•Mansard roof

•2 - 2.5 stories

•Dormers add light

Stick: (1870-1895)

New England Colonial: 1890-

1930•Symmetrical

•2.5 stories

•4 -over- 4 plan

Arts and Crafts: 1895-1920

•Steep gabled roofs

•Exposed beams

•Large front porches

Half Timber/Tudor

Revival: 1900-1930s

•Stucco and half-timbering

•Small leaded glass windows

•Complicated peaked roofs

French Provincial: 1900-

1930•French windows

•High steep hipped roof

•Expensive materials used

Bungalow: 1910-1930s

•Narrow, rectangular

•1 story

•Small front porches

Spanish Colonial: 1910-1930s

•Tiled roof

•Stucco

•Arched openings

American Foursquare” 1895 - 1930Simple box shape

Two-and-a-half stories highFour-room floor planLow-hipped roof, or pyramidal with deep overhangLarge central dormerFull-width porch with wide stairsBrick, stone, stucco, concrete block, or wood siding

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Queen Anne Cottage: 1880- 1890s

“practically consumed by an oversized gable. A veritable billboard for textural effect, the ornate gable may be clothed in decorative shingles, framed with intricate bargeboard, pierced by flashed glass windows, stamped with a sunburst”

cut-away corners

Queen Anne: 1880-1890s

•Eclectic, decorative

•Multiple gables

•2 - 3.5 stories

•Rounded tower

•Wrap around front porch

•Numerous balconies

Cape Cod: 1940-1950s

•Symmetrical

•1.5 stories

•Sometimes dormers

Garrison Colonial: 1935-

1955•Overhang

•Ornamentation (sometimes)

•Sub style of Colonial Revival

Art Deco: 1920-1940s

•Flat roof

•1 - 2 stories

•Stucco

California Ranch: 1950-1960s

•Long, rectangular

•Low pitched, hipped roofs

•Requires long lots