Architectural Styles

ARCHITECTURAL STYLES

Arts & Crafts style: 1880 - 1920 Colonial Revival Style: 1880 - Craftsman style: 1890 - 1945

This style maintains a steep-pitched roof and minimal 1945 This style often exhibits a side-gable roof, widely ex- eaves. These houses often have multiple gables, as tended eaves, knee braces or brackets, and an open well as possible telescoping or pairing. Some houses This style typically exhibits a symmetrical façade. These soffit with rafter tails. Windows are double-hung or have conical roofs on a circular tower. Roofs often houses often have Palladian feature windows, espe- casement and often found in a series. Cantilevered include dormers. Overall, they are typically rambling, cially centered on gable ends, that are half-elipsed bays are common at the upper level. These homes complex, and asymmetrical. They are often composed (semi-circular) or circular. Windows are often paired often exhibit a Four-square (2-stories) or Bungalow (1 of a stucco, brick, or stucco and brick combination and 6/6 or 6/9 double-hung. Sometimes there are bay to 1.5) typology. Some have Chalet or Tudor influences. with wood or board-and-batten siding. The windows or oriel window features. Roofs are commonly hipped. “Chalet” Craftsman homes are typically 2 stories and are multi-light, casement with little or no trim and often These houses also have closed soffits, and sometimes rectangular with a balcony cut-out pattern and a exist in a series. These houses also typically have mas- an enclosed side porch. “decorated” bargeboard. A combination Craftsman/ sive chimneys. Colonial style exhibits gable or gambrel roofs but no wide overhang, and normally has a porch within the roof volume. Doric columns or piers are common, with double-hung windows.

Georgian Revival Dutch Colonial style is a sub-style of Co- style houses are also lonial Revival. These houses a sub-style of Colonial are rectangular, symmet- Revival and are easily Prairie School style: 1910 - 1925 rical, and typically com- identified by their posed of brick with stone, gambrel roofs. This style of house typically exhibits flat, gable, or hip stucco, or wood decora- roofs that sometimes have brackets and generally tion. The main entrance Neo-Classical style: 1895 - 1950 have wide overhangs and closed soffits. These houses exhibits a portico with classical motifs. Windows often have massive rectangular piers. Bands of case- These properties are typically two stories in height, are almost always ment windows are most predominant in this style, but but a one-story variant typically has columns up to double-hung. double-hung windows are also very common as well. the main roof. The main façade exhibits a full-height These types of houses sometimes have a balcony at colonnaded porch and either a broken or unbroken the second story. The main entrance is typically a glass pediment at the entry. door entry with sidelights. ARCHITECTURAL STYLES

Tudor Revival style: 1910 - 1940 English Cottage style: 1920 - World War II Era Cottage style:

This style is asymmetrical, and can have an 1940 1935 - 1950 overhanging upper floor. It exhibits a steeply pitched cross-gabled roof, sometimes with a jerkin head or This style has a steep or medium-pitch gabled roof, or This style is primarily identified by their one-story com- rolled edges. It has a wide decorated bargeboard. Its sometimes hip-roofed, and can have rounded “thatch” pact size, with low-pitched hipped roof. Cladding is windows are typically tall and narrow double-hung or edges and/or jerkin heads (or clipped gables) at its limited to one or two materials, often wood clapboard casement. gables or dormers. These houses are typically asym- or cedar rake shingles, and brick veneer. A short, pro- metrical and 1 to 2 stories in height. They have narrow, jecting wing is common at the front, with the entrance multilight casement windows in bands, often a round- on the side or next to it, within a recessed porch. Win- head arch door, and large chimneys on end-walls. dows are typically wood multi-pane fixed and dou- They are usually composed of a stucco exterior and ble-hung, often with corner windows. Garage were clinker brick. mostly detached and fully set back from the house.

Mediterranean Spanish Revival style: Revival style: 1910 - 1930 1910 - 1930

This style exhibits a hipped This style has a low- roof that is most typically pitched hip or gabled tile tile. Its exterior walls are roof, exterior stucco walls, Minimal Traditional style: 1930 - Ranch style: 1940 - 1970 predominantly stucco or and is typically 2 stories in 1950 This style is more a form than a style, having a very concrete. Windows are height. A bell tower and simple rectangular footprint and shallowly pitched casement, double-hung, balconies with wrought This style is characterized by small, often symmetrical hipped or gable roof. Garages are always attached and often have arched iron are often common in houses with medium-pitched gabled roofs with little to and face the street. Entrances feature a large multi- fanlights. A portico at the these types of houses. no overhang. Cladding is generally wood clapboards pane fixed wood window close to the main entrance. main entry and terraces or shingles, and windows are typically wood Many houses include up to four different types of are very common. (Italian double-hung, sometimes with multi-pane divisions on cladding that varies from wood clapboards, vertical Renaissance Revival and the front. Garages are sometimes detached and set boards, vertically-grooved plywood, and brick and French Renaissance back, or in many cases attached but completely set stone veneer that usually extends to chimneys and Revival styles are sub-styles back from the front plane of the house. It is not yet integrated planters. of Mediterranean horizontal in form. according to the SHPO).