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Some of the well-known and most common architectural styles that have gained popularity in America include: The colonial style, ranch style, beach house, Mediterranean style, cabin style, classical style, craftsmen style, and country style, among others.

Log Cabin

Dates:up to 1850s. Features:Log walls; one- to three-room layout, sometimes with a center passage (called a dogtrot). The earliest settler houses went up quickly, using the most abundant material around—wood—to protect against the harsh weather. Log cabins were common in the middle Atlantic colonies, like this Appalachian house. thisoldhouse.com

Saltbox

Dates:1607 to early 1700s Features:Steeply pitched (catslide) roof that reaches to first story in the back; massive central chimney; small windows of diamond paned casements or double-hung sash with nine or 12 lights. Most saltboxes existed in and around New England. Their steep roof pitch is a holdover from the days of thatching, but early settler

Georgian

Dates:1700 to 1780 Features:Symmetrical facade; double-hung windows with nine or 12 lights in each sash; paneled door with pilasters, transom lights, and sometimes a pedimented crown; brick in the South, clapboards in the North; dentil molding at the cornice. American Georgian architecture is based on earlier European styles (not the British Georgi

Federal

Dates:1780 to 1820 Features:Symmetrical facade; 6-over-6 double-hung windows with shutters; paneled door with elaborate surround (pediment, pilasters, sidelights, and fanlight); dentil molding or other decoration at cornice. Based almost entirely on the English Adamesque style, the American Federal (or Adam) style took its cues from ancient Roman a

Greek Revival

Dates:1825 to 1860 Features:Pedimented gable ends, portico or full-width porch with classical columns, 6-over-6 windows with pediments. Americans, newly enamored with Greek democracy, built civic buildings that looked like Greek temples. The fashion for columns and pediments seeped into residential architecture as far as the most rural farmland, po

Gothic Revival

Dates:1840 to 1880 Features:Steeply pitched roof with decorated bargeboard and cross gables, arched gothic windows and doors with arched panels, first-floor porch. The Gothic Revival is another trend that started in England and made its way to the U.S. The style mimics the shapes found on Medieval churches and houses, and is almost always found in

Italianate

Dates:1840 to 1885 Features:Hip roof with deep, bracketed eaves; arched 1-over-1 or 2-over-2 windows with elaborate crowns; paired-door entryway with glass in the doors. Again modeled after a fashion started in England, the Italianate style rejected the rigid rules of classical architecture and instead looked to the more informal look of Italian ru

Second Empire

Dates:1855 to 1885 Features:Mansard roof (hipped with two pitches) with dormers set into it and patterned shingles, deep eaves with decorative brackets, 2-over-2 or 1-over-1 windows with elaborate hoods or pediments. The style is closely related to Italianate, but is always characterized by its mansard roof, named for the 17th-century French archit

Queen Anne

Dates:1880 to 1910 Features:Asymmetrical house shape with intersecting roof lines, turrets and bay windows; first floor porch; patterned shingles and decorative trim. The Queen Anne style—what most people would call “Victorian”—is the first product of the American Industrial Age. After the Civil War, munitions factories converted to make metal hous

Shingle

Dates:1880 to 1900 Features:Exterior walls and roofs of wood shingles; asymmetrical house shape, often organic to the landscape around it; large porches; intersecting roofs of different shapes, including gambrel. A style mostly popular along the coast in the Northeast, Shingle houseswere usually large architects’ masterpieces, free-form mansions bu

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