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Cape Cod
Colonial & Georgian
Colonial
English Tudor
Four Square
Gothic Revival
Greek Revival
Italianate
Neoclassical
Mediterranean
Victorian & Victorian
Gothic
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The concern and care given to details of an Arts & Crafts house
has given rise to a planned decor of a home with built-in furniture,
stairways, windows doorways, walls, ceilings, and floors, all constructed
in the same carved and polished wooden aesthetics. Natural materials,
such as redwood, tile, stone and earth colors are commonly employed.
These homes portrait an overall effect of a natural, warm, livable
home. 
One
of New England’s most significant contributions to American
architecture is the “Cape Cod” house. Which feature
a steep roofline, with side gables. Linear floor plan. Typically
1 1/2 stories to allow attic to be a living space. Made of wood
and covered in wide clapboard or shingles. Multi-paned, double-hung
windows with shutters lower and 2 dormer windows above. Symmetrical
appearance with door in center, small roof overhang and a large
central chimney.
A
revival of eighteenth century colonial architecture and one of many
revival styles popular in the early twentieth century. Symmetrical
massing. Commonly used details include Palladium windows, quoins,
garlands, heavy dentils, pedimented dormers, classical columns or
pilasters. Multi-paned windows with shutters. Entrance with fanlight
and sidelights.
Revival
style modeled on English manor houses and cottages. Light stucco
wall surfaces and dark half-timbering. Steeply pitched roof with
prominent gables. Leaded glass windows, often with diamond-shaped
panes. Tudor-arched entrance. Usually built of brick or stone and
stucco.
This
style features flat, undecorated wall surface of brick or weatherboard;
low-pitched gable roof; end chimneys; and large multi-paned windows.
The place of entry (the front door and center hall) is always given
special attention: light enters the hall through a delicately carved
elliptical fanlight over the door and narrow sidelights flank the
door. Slender columns hold a semicircular, classically designed
entablature over the entry. Interior stairs are sometimes carved
and always delicately detailed.
Square
or rectangle house plan with two full stories, imparting box-like
appearance. Large attic under hipped roof, usually with hip-roof
dormers and wide, projecting eaves. Balanced and plain facade of
brick, clapboard or stucco. Windows often arranged in pairs, with
multi-paned upper sashes. One-story porch spans front facade.
French
Provincial 
Emphasis
on verticality, typified by steeply pitched roof, pointed arches,
and vertical board-and-batten siding. Straight-headed and hooded
openings. Bargeboard trim at gable. Later examples distinguished
by enriched wall surface created through the use of materials of
contrasting color and texture. Though Gothic Revival ceased to be
favored as a style of house by the 1870s, it remains popular as
a style of religious architecture well into the twentieth century.
Inspired
by classical Greek temple forms, with heavy cornice and Doric, Ionic
or Corinthian columns and pilasters. Customarily of smooth-faced
stone, brick or wood. Sidelights and transom at entrance. Popular
for custom homes, courthouse and churches.
Predominate
style in Indiana during the late nineteenth century, loosely derived
from Italian villas. Vertical composition. Tall, narrow, slightly
arched windows with segmental or round arched hoods. Low-pitched
hipped roof supported by decorative brackets and often topped with
a cupola.
These
homes are bold and symmetrical in form and lavish in detail, sometimes
embellished with sculpture. Elaborate Greco-Roman classical details
such as freestanding columns, heavy moldings, pediments, and balustrades
applied to facade.
The
two dominant influences of Mediterranean architecture are those
of Spain and Italy. The use of architectural elements and designs
indigenous to the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea as
a fundamental trend began to take hold in the late-19th century
wrought iron balconies, court yards and arched windows. Spanish
Mediterranean is less ornamental. It’s crisper and more masculine.
The Italian Renaissance influenced a more deliberately shaped massing,
often into symmetrical expressions. The Spanish Mediterranean’s
massing is likely to be more haphazard and freeform. 
With
the emphasis of a large porch and turrets, these homes feature arches,
pointed windows with decorative tracery, and other details derived
from late-nineteenth century styles, usually Queen Anne or Italianate.
Steeply pitched roof, grouped chimneys, pinnacles battlements and
shaped parapets, leaded glass, quatrefoil and clover shaped windows,
a verandah, oriel windows, and an asymmetrical floor plan set this
architectural style apart from others. Most detailing is manufactured
wood elements applied at cornice and on porch, such as gingerbread
trim in gable, spindle friezes and turned porch posts.