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Major American House Styles

Cape Cod

Cape Cod Houses usually have these features:

• 1 or 1½ stories
• Steep roof with side gables
• Small roof overhang
• Wide clapboard or shingles on sides
• Large central chimney linked to fireplace in each room
• Symmetrical appearance, with door in center
• Little exterior ornamentation

Colonial

Georgian Colonial homes usually have these features:

• Square, symmetrical shape
• Paneled front door at center
• Decorative crown over front door
• Columns on each side of door
• Three or five windows across front
• Paired chimneys
• Medium pitched roof
• Minimal roof overhang

American Federal

American Federal houses have many of these features:

Brick facades Low‐pitched roof, or flat roof with a balustrade Windows arranged symmetrically around a center doorway Semicircular fanlight over the front door Narrow side windows flanking the front door Extended symmetrical wings Circular or elliptical windows, arches, oval rooms, decorative swags & garlands Shutters

The American Foursquare

American Foursquare houses usually have these features:

• Simple box shape
• Two‐and‐a‐half stories high
• Four‐room floor plan

Low‐hipped roof with deep

• verhang
• Large central dormer

Full‐width porch with wide stairs

• Brick, stone or wood siding

Greek Revival

Greek Revival houses usually have these features:

Pedimented gable Symmetrical shape Wide, plain frieze Bold, simple moldings Entry porch with columns Narrow windows around front door

Victorian

Victorians homes often have these features: Dormer windows Brackets beneath eaves, balconies and bay windows Porches with spindlework or flat, jigsaw cut trim Large wrap‐around porches Irregular shapes Patterned slate on roof Tall windows Small entry porch

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Dutch Colonial

Dutch Colonial homes often have the following characteristics:

broad gambrel roof with flaring eaves that extend over the long sides, resembling a barn in construction porch along both long sides chimney was located on one or both ends double‐hung sash windows with

• utward swinging wood shutters

symmetrical floor plan with central hall entrance

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Semi‐Detached or Row Houses

Semi‐Detached or Row Homes (sometimes called condos or duplexes) usually

consist of pairs of houses built side by side as units share a wall in such a way that each house's layout is a mirror image of its twin have independent open spaces in front and rear of home

Mobile Home

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Mobile Homes are usually

prefabricated - built in factories, rather

than on site, and then taken to the place where they will be occupied placed in one location and left there permanently available in two major sizes, single-wides and double-wides *single-wides are 18 feet wide by 90 feet long or less in length *double-wides are basically two single-wides towed to their site in two separate units, which are then joined together

Ranch Style

Ranch style houses have many of these features:

Single story Low pitched gable roof Horizontal, rambling layout: Long, narrow, and low to the ground Rectangular, L‐shaped, or U‐ shaped design Asymmetrical Large windows: double‐hung, sliding, and picture Sliding glass doors leading out to patio Attached garage Emphasis on openness (few interior walls) and efficient use of space

Raised Ranch Style (Split Level)

Split Level style houses have many of these features:

• Two stories
• Attached garage
• Partially submerged basement

with living quarters

• Low pitched gable roof
• Asymmetrical
• Large windows: double-hung,

sliding, and picture

• Sliding glass doors leading out to

patio

Neoeclectic

A Neoeclectic home can borrow characteristics from any of the traditional styles and combine them all together

Other styles to recognize:

Tudor

Italianate

Postmodern Style

Antebellum Architecture

A‐frame Style

Spanish‐style House

Craftsman Bungalow