Historical Housing Styles Hanna

  • Hogan
    1400

    Hogan

    Built out of logs and mud, windows that face the west with one door facing east
  • English half timbered
    1500

    English half timbered

    External and internal walls are constructed of timber frames and the spaces between the structural members are filled with such materials as brick, plaster, or wattle and daub.
  • Adobe

    Adobe

    Very thick walls made, sun dried bricks made of clay, sand, soil and straw
  • French Manor

    French Manor

    hip roofs, balanced-symmetrical proportions, brick exterior, steep roofs, tall second-story windows
  • French Provincial

    French Provincial

    Most often have balanced and symmetrical proportions. Arched windows and doors. Brick exterior.
  • Swedish Log Cabin

    Swedish Log Cabin

    Gable roof, logs and cement running. Horizontal in stripes in the cabin, usually small windows and inside there’s usually a fireplace.
  • English saltbox

    English saltbox

    two stories in the front and then the house roof slopes downward to have one story in the back.
  • Southern Colonial

    Southern Colonial

    a large, two- or three- story frame house of symmetrical design. Two- story columns extend across the entire front, covered by roof extension. The roof is hip or gable. dormers, shutters and a small room on the roof of the house (lookout) is called belvedere.
  • Spanish-Stucco

    Spanish-Stucco

    Designed to keep cool in hot climates. Flat or gently sloped red-tiled roofs. Asymmetrical exterior design.
  • Georgian

    Georgian

    Symmetrical design. CLassic proportions. Decorative elements. Side-gabled or hipped roof.
  • Adams

    Adams

    Classical Roman decorative motifs, such as framed medallions, vases, urns and tripods, arabesque vine scrolls, sphinxes, griffins, and dancing nymphs, Flat grotesque panels, Pilasters, Painted ornaments, such as swags, and ribbons, Complex pastel colour schemes.
  • Eglish Cape Cod

    Eglish Cape Cod

    Steep roof, center chimney, windows, shingle sides, and unornamented look
  • Tidewater South

    Tidewater South

    large wrap around porches. Hipped roofs. designed for hot/wet climates. Raised foundations. raised in cases of flooding.
  • Early Classic Revival

    Early Classic Revival

    full height entry with pediment and columns. Elliptical widow over paneled from door. Symmetrical aligned windows and door. Side gabled or low pitched hipped roof. Large windows and doors.
  • Gothic Revival

    Gothic Revival

    pointed arch used for windows and doors. Steeply pitched roofs. porches, dormers, or roof gables.
  • Victorian

    Victorian

    sash windows, built in the form of terraced housing or detached buildings, built out of brick and stonemost of time, slanted roofs
  • Greek Revival

    Greek Revival

    painted white to imitate marble
    very intrigate pillars in the front of house
  • italianate

    italianate

    two or more stories. hip roof. box with a centered gable. L or U plan. L plan with a tower, and a front able. wide projecting cornices with heavy brackets and their richly ornamented windows, porches and doorways
  • bungalow

    bungalow

    Bungalows often have the windows close to the roof. They have the living space on the first floors, and the bedrooms on the upper level.
  • Tudor

    Tudor

    Steeply pitched gable roofs. Playfully elaborate masonry chimneys. Embellished doorway -groupings of windows. Decorative half-timbering. Wood framework
  • Split level

    Split level

    very innovative in its use of spacing. Reorganizes rooms according to use . main level with basic rooms such as kitchen and living rooms. stairs leading up to bedrooms and down to basement.
  • Ranch

    Ranch

    Long and low, consisting typically of one level (and then the basement). They offer attached garages, open floor plans and basic exterior. Allows for owners to customize the home.
  • Earth sheltered

    Earth sheltered

    Energy efficent features
    control of outside temps and activity, less outside maintenance, and soundproofing
    blends home into the earth
    types: bearmed and underground
  • Prairie

    Prairie

    two story houses with single story wings. horizontal lines, ribbon windows, big, vulky chimneys, sloping roofs, overhangs, and gardens
  • Dutch Colonial

    Dutch Colonial

    The door was the most unique part because it was divided in half horizontally. These houses have gambrel roofing. they alo have dormers, a central entrance, an off-center chimney, and window with small panes
  • German

    German

    One story with one big room with some partial walls. White outer walls and pieces of black-brown wood running across geometrically with gable roofing.
  • solar

    solar

    Panels installed on the roof, fans and pumps Active Solar: fans and pumps move heated air or liquid to stored area or wherever heat is needed.
  • English Garrison

    English Garrison

    2 stories, second story over hangs, small panes of glass or double hung doors
  • French normandy

    French normandy

    Hipped and Mansard roof. Arched Doorways. Half- timbering. Round towers.
  • International

    International

    The most common characteristics of International Style buildings are rectilinear forms; light, taut plane surfaces that have been completely stripped of applied ornamentation and decoration; open interior spaces; and a visually weightless quality engendered by the use of cantilever construction. Glass and steel, in combination with usually less visible reinforced concrete