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1400
Hogan
- Built out of logs and mud
- Navajo believed it had to face the east to let good spirits in their house
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1400
English-Half Timber
- Wooden beams showing in the brick and plaster walls in the inside and outside
- Upper floors projected out over the lower level
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1500
Adobe
- Very thick walls
- Bricks made of clay, soil, sand, and straw
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1500
French Manor
- Hip, steep roofs -Balanced, symmetrical proportions Brick exterior
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Swedish Log Cabin
- Gable roofs, logs and cement walls
- Small windows and a fireplace
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English-Saltbox
- Two stories in the front
- Roof (catslide) slopes down to make one story in the back
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Frech-Provincal
- Inspired by the rural manor homes of the 1600s
- Most often have balanced and symmetrical proportions. Arched windows and doors. Brick exterior.
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Southern Colonial
-A large, two or three story frame house with symmetrical design.
-The roof is hip or gable shutters and a small room on the roof of the house (lookout) is called the belvedere. -
English-Cape Cod
- Normally found in New England and Northeastern states
- steep roof, a center chimney, windows, shingle sides, and an unornamented look
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Spanish-Stucco
- Designed to keep cool in hot climates
- Coated with stucco on outside walls
- Flat or gently sloped red-tile roofs, arches over doors and windows, asymmetrical exterior design, and iron detailing
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Georgian
- Symmetrical design, classic proportions, decorative elements, and side-gabled or hipped roof
- Most houses are being torn down
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Gothic Revival
- drew its inspiration from medieval architecture
- pointed arch used for windows and doors.
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Adams
- Classical Roman decorative motifs, such as framed medallions, vases, urns and tripods, arabesque vine scrolls, sphinxes, griffins, and dancing nymphs. -Flat grotesque panels, Pilsters, Painted ornaments, such as swags, and ribbons. Complex pastel color schemes.
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Early Classic Revival
-Inspiration directly from Greek and Roman ancient building styles
- Full height entry porch with pediment and columns -
Tidewater South
- Designed for hot weather
- Hipped roofs and large wrap around porches
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Greek Revival
- inspired by Greece housing
- Painted white to imitate expensive marble. It frequently contained intricate details and pillars out front of the house.
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Italianate
-Two or more stories
-Box with a centered gable -
Tudor
Steeply pitched gable roofs
-decorative half-timbering
-wood framework -
Victorian
-Sash windows: these functioned by sliding the bottoms half of the window upwards
-Style: Most housing was either built in the form of terraced housing or detached buildings -
Dutch Colonial
- Door divided half-horizontally
- Gambrel roofing, central entrance, off-center chimney, and windows with small panes
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Prairie Style
-typically two story houses with single story wings
-horizontal line, ribbon windows, big, bulky chimneys, sloping roofs, overhangs, and gardens. -
Bungalow
-often have the windows close to the roof.
-They have a living space on the first floors and bedrooms on the upper level. -
English-Garrison
- 2 stories/second story overhang
- Small panes of glass or double hung windows
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French Normandy
- Hipped and mansard roof, arched doorways, half-timbering, round towers
- Home magazines began to feature these houses
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Ranch Style
-long and low, consisting typically of only one level (and then the basement)
-attached garages, open floor plans, and a basic exterior -
Split-Level House
-Innovative in use of spacing
-Organizes rooms according to use -
International Style
-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 -
Earth Sheltered
-Consists of energy efficient features.
-The architecture blends the home into the earth and its surrounding environment. -
Solar
-Panels installed on the roof, fans and pumps
- Active Solar and Passive Solar -
German
- One story house with one big room and partial walls
- White outer walls and pieces of black-brown wood running across geometrically
