Historical Housing Style Timeline Allen

By kallen
  • 3800 BCE

    Adobe

    Adobe
    -Environmental based
    -Mud walls
  • 1453

    German

    German
    -Symmetrical
    -"All-In-One Home"
  • 1500

    English Half-Timbered House

    -Internal walls are constructed of timber frames and filled with brick, plaster, or wattle and daub.

  • English Saltbox

    English Saltbox
    -Flat front with asymmetrical roof
    -Named after salt container in colonial times

  • Swedish Log Cabin

    Swedish Log Cabin
    -one room, and often has a stone fireplace

  • English Garrison

    English Garrison
    -2nd Story over hangs the first
    -Dense walls with boxlike structure

  • Spanish Stucco

    Spanish Stucco
    -Originated in Mexico
    -Stucco on walls, and often have courtyards

  • French Normandy

    French Normandy
    -Turret, arched door, steep roof
    -Stone/brick walls

  • Hogan

    Hogan
    -used by Navajo people
    -many shapes, built in banks

  • French Provincial

    French Provincial
    -french provinces, country manor based, symmetrical

  • Georgian

    Georgian
    -Simple exterior lines, symmetry, small panes, gable/hip roofs

  • Adams

    Adams
    -Boxlike shape
    -Flat Roof with Balustrade

  • Early Classic Revival

    Early Classic Revival
    -made of brick, stone, or wood
    -4 front columns with long porch

  • Tudor

    Tudor
    -Fell out of style in 1900s due to Americans wanting to have more patriotism in their homes.
    -gable roofs and groupings of windows

  • Bungalow

    Bungalow
    -2nd story built into roof and over porch
    -Low roof lines

  • French Manor

    French Manor
    -proportional
    -steep roofs
    -tall windows

  • Southern Colonial

    Southern Colonial
    -Based in south
    -Gable roofs, shutters, and framed doorways are common characteristics

  • Earth Sheltered

    Earth Sheltered
    -environmental friendly and solar powered
    -Half underground

  • English Cape Cod

    English Cape Cod
    -steep roof, center chimney, windows go to roof lines

  • Gothic Revival

    Gothic Revival
    -pointed roofs, slim chimneys, mostly found in the northeast.

  • Greek Revival

    Greek Revival
    -mimicked greek design, large porches and greek looking columns

  • Italianate

    Italianate
    -ornamented windows, porches and doorways
    -2 story with hipped roofs

  • Victorian

    Victorian
    -Many Details
    -Small Tower

  • Dutch

    Dutch
    -Sidelights
    -Central Door/Grand Entrance
    -Basic

  • International Style

    International Style
    -"Architecture of the Machine Age"
    -Very Modern

  • Prairie

    Prairie
    -"married to the ground"
    -emphasis on horizontal lines and cherishes midwest land

  • Ranch

    Ranch
    -American-Western basd
    -Whole and Open Layout

  • Split Level

    Split Level
    -Staggered Floor Levels
    -Garage attached to the bottom

  • Solar Houses

    Solar Houses
    -panels on roof, designed to use maximum energy from the sun.,