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\| Chronology of Architectural Styles Classical to Eclecticism to Modern | |
| For a further discussion on regional styles, see; New York Architecture Images Chronology of Architectural Styles & Sydney Architecture Images Chronology of Architectural Styles. | |
| Classical | |
Egyptian Ancient Egyptian Greek Ionic Doric Corinthian | Roman Tuscan Composite Roman 0 Corinthian Roman 0 Late Roman 0 Early Christian Roman 0 Roman Classical 0 |
| Mediaeval architecture | |
| Byzantine | Tudor and Jacobean |
| Sassanid | Mediaeval Italian Vernacular 0 |
| Romanesque | Gothic |
| Norman | ItalianGothic 0 |
| Hanseatic Brick Gothic | |
| Chinese architecture | |
| Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) | |
| Islamic architecture | |
| Islamic | |
| Moorish, Persian, Timurid, Ottoman Turkish, Fatimid, Mamluks, Mughal, Sino-Islamic, Afro-Islamic | |
| Renaissance architecture | |
| Early | |
| Elizabethan (England) | |
| Cinquecento (Italy) 0 | |
| Plateresque (Spain) 0 | |
| Later | |
| Italian Rennaisance 0 | |
| French Renaissance | |
| English Renaissance 0 | |
| German Renaissance | |
| North Renaissance | |
| Dutch Renaissance | |
| Polish Renaissance | |
| Hungarian Renaissance | |
| Spanish Renaissance | |
| Renaissance | |
| Mannerism | |
| Baroque architecture | |
| Baroque | |
| Italian Baroque 0 | |
| French Baroque | |
| German Baroque 0 | |
| Dutch Baroque | |
| English Baroque | |
| Rococo | |
| The Seventeenth Century. | |
| Palladian | |
| Nineteenth Century | |
| NeoClassical | |
| Georgian | |
| Federal | |
| Regency | |
| Victorian Academic Classical 0 | |
| Victorian Free Classical 0 | |
| Gothick Picturesque 0 | |
| Victorian High Gothic / Ruskinian Gothic 0 | |
| Gründerzeit (German late Victorian) | |
| Late Victorian Free Style 0 | |
| Victorian Industrial 0 | |
| Edwardian 0 | |
| Art Nouveau | |
| Jugendstil 0 | |
| Revival styles in 19th-century architecture | |
| Classical Revival 0 | |
| Directoire and Empire | |
| Regency Revival | |
| Egyptian Revival 0 | |
| NeoGrec / Greek Revival 0 | |
| NeoRomanesque / Romanesque Revival 0 | |
| Richardsonian Romanesque 0 | |
| Rundbogenstyl (German round-arched neo-Romanesque) 0 | |
| NeoByzantine | |
| Russo-Byzantine | |
| Muscovite Revival | |
| NeoGothic / Gothic Revival | |
| Scottish Baronial | |
| Tudorbethan / Tudor | |
| Muscovite Gothic | |
| Moorish Revival 0 | |
| Indo-Saracenic | |
| Renaissance Revival / Neo-Renaissance | |
| North Italian Renaissance 0 | |
| Italianate 0 (also neo-Palladian) | |
| Second Empire | |
| Chateauesque | |
| Jacobethan | |
| NeoBaroque 0 and 18th century | |
| Beaux-Arts | |
| Wrenaissance | |
| Queen Anne 0 | |
| Anglo-Dutch / Flemish Revival 0 | |
| Dutch Colonial Revival | |
| Georgian Revival / Colonial Revival 0 | |
| Spanish Revival 0 | |
| Spanish Mission 0 | |
| Historicism 0 | |
| 19th cent. House Styles | |
| Stick Style 0 | |
| Carpenter Gothic 0 | |
| Shingle Style 0 | |
| Craftsman | |
| American Four-Square | |
| Victorian Worker's Cottage | |
| Early Modern architecture | |
| Arts and Crafts Movement | |
| California Bungalow 0 | |
| Art Deco | |
| Art Moderne 0 | |
| Stripped Classical 0 | |
| Skyscraper Gothic 0 | |
| Early Modern 0 | |
| Dutch Expressionist Modern 0 | |
| Bauhaus | |
| Constructivist | |
| Chicago School | |
| Prairie School 0 | |
| Sullivanesque 0 | |
| De Stijl | |
| Futurist architecture | |
| Late Modern architecture | |
| Stalinist Architecture | |
| Fascist Stripped Classical (German) | |
| Italian Fascist | |
| Socialist realism (art) | |
| Socialist Moderne / Socialist Brutalism | |
| San Diego Modernism | |
| International Style Mid-century modern | |
| Corbusian | |
| Functionalist 0 | |
| Brutalist 0 | |
| Postmodern | |
| Modern 0 | |
| High-Tech Modern | |
| Deconstructivist | |
| American House Styles | |
Pueblo Styles Prehistory - Present. Inspired by the simple adobe structures built by ancient tribes, comfortable, eco-friendly pueblo style homes are especially practical in dry climates. Traditional pueblo architecture dates back to the dawn of history; Pueblo Revival houses became popular in the early 1900s and are still a favored style in the southwestern regions of the United States. Cape Cod House Style 1600s - 1950s. The Cape Cod house style originated in New England in the late 17th century. Today, the term refers to one-and-a-half story homes popular in the United States during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Georgian Colonial House Style 1690s - 1830. This symmetrical, orderly style became prominent in Colonial America. Log Cabins 1700s - present. Today's log homes are often spacious and elegant, but in colonial America, log cabins reflected the hardships of life on the North American frontier. French Creole House Styles 1700s - 1800s. Spanish, African, Native American, and other heritages combine to create the Creole houses in America's French colonies. Federal / Adam House Styles 1780 - 1840. Graceful details distinguish these homes from the pragmatic Georgian colonial style. 19th Century & Victorian House Styles Greek Revival House Style 1825-1860. Democratic ideals are reflected in the classical details of Greek Revival homes. Tidewater House Style 1800s. Built in coastal areas of the American South, these homes were designed for wet, hot climates. Antebellum Architecture 1830-1862. Antebellum is not a style so much as an era. These grand plantation homes reflect the wealth and power of plantation owners in the American South prior to the Civil War. Victorian Gothic House Styles 1840-1880. These buildings feature arches, pointed windows and other details borrowed from medieval Gothic cathedrals. Included are facts and photos for Gothic Revival, Carpenter Gothic and High Victorian Gothic architecture. Victorian Italianate House Styles 1840-1885. Old World ideals transplanted to the United States. Second Empire House Styles 1855-1885. With their high mansard roofs, these houses evoked European majesty. Victorian Stick House Styles 1860-1890. Trusses and stickwork suggest medieval building techniques. Eastlake Victorian Styles 1860 - 1880s. These fanciful Victorian houses are lavished with Eastlake style spindlework. Folk Victorian House Styles 1870-1910. Just plain folk could afford these no-fuss homes, using trimwork made possible by mass production. Shingle Style 1874-1910. Home designers rejected fussy Queen Anne ornamentation in homes that evoked rustic coastal living. Richardsonian Romanesque House Styles 1880-1900. Romantic, castle-like buildings, often constructed of stone, inspired by designer Henry Hobson Richardson. Victorian Queen Anne House Styles 1880-1910. Towers, turrets, wrap around porches and other fanciful details. Gilded Age & Early 20th Century House Styles Beaux Arts House Styles 1885- 1925. Swags, medallions, flowers, balustrades, balconies, grand stairways and other lavish features characterize this style, reserved for grandiose public buildings and homes for the very rich. Colonial Revival House Styles 1880-1955. These symmetrical houses combine elements of Federal and Georgian architecture. Mission & California Mission House Styles 1890-1920. Stucco walls, arches and other details inspired by the Spanish mission churches of colonial America. Tudor Revival House Styles 1890-1940. Decorative half-timbering and other details suggest medieval building techniques. Cotswold Cottage and English Country Styles 1890-1940. This subtype of the Tudor Revival style may remind you of a picturesque storybook cottage. Renaissance Revival House Styles 1890 -1935. A fascination for the architecture of Renaissance Europe inspired these elegant homes and villas. American Foursquare House Styles 1895-1930. This practical, economical style became one of the most popular in the United States. Prairie School House Styles 1900-1920. The low, linear style pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright. Craftsman Bungalow House Styles 1905-1930. From the Arts & Crafts movement, an American style popularized through mail order catalogs. Usonian Houses 1936-1960. When the United States was in an economic depression, Frank Lloyd Wright developed a simplified version of his Prairie School architecture. Designed to control costs, these homes had no attics, no basements, and little ornamentation. Spanish Revival House Styles 1915-1940. The opening of the Panama canal inspired a variety of Spanish Colonial Revival and Mediterranean styles. French-Inspired House Styles 1915-1945. French ideas are reflected in Normandy, Provincial, and a variety of other styles. Art Moderne House Styles 1930-1945. With smooth, white walls and a sleek streamlined appearance, these cube-shaped homes expressed the spirit of the machine age. Late 20th Century through Today Ranch Style Homes 1935 - Present. The rambling, no-nonsense Ranch styles became dominant in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. If you live in the suburbs, there's a good chance your home is a Western Ranch, American Ranch, or California Rambler. Raised Ranch (Split Level) House Styles 1935 - Present. A traditional Ranch Style house is only one story, but a split level, "Raised Ranch" house has room to grow. A finished basement with large windows creates extra living space below, while a raised roof leaves room for bedrooms above. A-Frame Homes 1957-Present. With a dramatic, sloping roof and cozy living quarters, an A-frame style house is ideal for wintery regions with lots of snow. Postmodern Homes 1965 - Present. Rebelling against minimalist modernist architecture, Postmodern houses tend to give the impression that anything goes - the impossible is not only possible, but exaggerated. Neoeclectic Homes 1965 - Present. Decorative details borrowed from the past and selected from a construction catalog create a mixture that can be difficult to define. Dome Homes Late 20th century. Monolithic domes and the innovative geodesic dome technology pioneered by Buckminister Fuller. Earth Homes From prehistoric times to the present. Cob, straw bale, earth bermed and underground homes are inexpensive, energy efficient and surprisingly comfortable. The list below primarily refers to American house styles. Such styles as Tudor, Palladian, Georgian, et al. can only be found in their true form in Europe. Many older American houses may have started as one style, but later additions and renovations can disguise if not completely mask their origins. A Federal house may end up with Greek Revival and/or Queen Anne veneers. It may also end up with vinyl-siding hiding all aspects of style except the basic structure. To muddy the waters further, revival styles have revivals. Many houses will not fit into a single style category. The contemporary “McMansions” – large, developer-built houses of varied appearance – might be considered an adulterated revival of the Queen Anne style. The Queen Anne style was, itself, an adulteration of previous styles — a 19th-century version of Post-Modern. Thus this list is not definitive, but simply indicates general trends in American housing styles. 01-A-frame 02-Adirondack 03-American Craftsman 04-Bungalow 05-California bungalow – sometimes two-story, technically not a bungalow; in Australia, almost invariably single storey 06-Cape Cod 07-Catslide cottage 08-Châteauesque 09-Colonial revival 10-Dingbat (apartment building style) 11-Dutch Colonial 12-Federal 13-Federation (Australian Style, Circa 1901) 14-French colonial 15-French-Canadian colonial 16-Georgian Colonial 17-Garrison 18-Georgian 19-Gothic revival 20-Greek Revival Style architecture 21-International 22-Italianate 23-Lanai (style) 24-Log house 25-Longhouse (traditional communal home of Borneo) 26-McMansion 27-Mobile home (or trailer home) 28-Moderne 29-Neo-classical revival 30-Neo-colonial revival 31-New Old House 32-Octagon 33-Pacific lodge 34-Palladian 35-Post-modern 36-Prairie style 37-Pueblo style 38-Queen Anne 39-Queenslander (Australian) 40-Ranch 41-Richardsonian Romanesque 42-Rumah Gadang (traditional style of the Minangkabau in Indonesia) 43-Saltbox 44-Second Empire 45-Semi-detached 46-Sod dug-out 47-Sod house 48-Shingle style 49-Shotgun House 50-Southern plantation 51-Spanish colonial 52-Split-level garrison 53-Split level home, also called split-level ranch 54-Stick style 55-Swiss chalet 56-Tudor, aka Elizabethan and Jacobean 57-Tudor revival 58-aka Elizabethan Revival, Tudorbethan, Jacobean Revival, Banker's Tudor 59-Victorian house | |
| For a further discussion on regional styles, see; New York Architecture Images Chronology of Architectural Styles & Sydney Architecture Images Chronology of Architectural Styles. | |
