Architectural Styles from 1700
Georgian
Federal
The georgian archetecture style was popular from 1714 to 1830. It was built symmetric. If you cut the house in half it would still be exactly the same.
The Federal, or Adam, style was popular from 1780 to 1840. Having evolved from Georgian it was the comparatively progressive European ideas about architecture that prompted this American change in taste.
Greek Revival
Italianate
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was most popular in Northern Europe and the United States.
The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase. It drew heavily for its motifs on the buildings of the Italian Renaissance
Victorian
Colonial Revival
Victorian architecture style was popular in the mid-to-late 19th century. Victorian refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901).
Colonial Revival architecture was and is a nationalistic design movement in the United States and Canada. It was popular in the late 19th century.
Prairie
Craftsman
Prairie style was exemplified by the low-lying “prairie houses� such as Robie House (1908). They were for the most part built in the Midwest between 1900 and 1917
Craftsman home plans are cozy, often with shingle siding and stone details. Open porches with overhanging beams and rafters are common.
Ranch
Shed
The 20th century ranch house style has its roots in North American Spanish colonial architecture of the 17th to 19th century. They have single story floor plans and native materials in a simple style to meet the needs of their inhabitants.
Shed Style refers to a style of architecture that makes use of single-sloped roofs. The style originated from the designs of architects Charles Willard Moore and Robert Venturi in the 1960s. They became very popular in the 1970s and 1980s
A-Frame
Geodesic
A Frame features an A shaped roof. They are very current. The roof is steeply angled.
The principles of geodesic construction were developed by the pioneering American architect and engineer R Buckminster Fuller in the middle of the last century as part of his efforts to use science and technology to address universal issues.