The Evolution of Architecture in Ipswich
Agawam Longhouse
First Cottages
First Period
Second Period
Federa
Greek Revival
Cape Cod Colonial
Greek Revival
Gothic Revival
Italianate
Second Empire
Painted Lady
Stick
Queen Anne
Shingle
Folk Victorian
Tudor Revival
Colonial Revival
Bungalow
Craftsman
American Foursquare
Neoclassical
Mid-Century Modern
Ranch style house
Starter Mansion
McMansions
Starter Castles
Glossary
3 bay facade
Adam
Agawam Longhouse
American Foursquare style
American practicality
arched entrance doorways
architectural history
architectural styles
Arts and Crafts movement
asymmetrical facades
balanced facade
Beaux-Arts style
belvedere
bold colors
braces
Bracketed Style
brackets
British Arts and Crafts movement
broken pediments
Bungalow
bungalow windows
Cape Cod Colonial
carved brackets
centered door
centered door with entablature
Chicago World’s Fair
chimney pots
classical decorative ornaments
classical symmetry
Colonial Revival
Colonial Revival homes
colorful patterns
concrete block
corner pilasters
corner quoins
cottages
Craftsman style
culture
decorative wood external woodwork
dentil
dentil cornices
dentils
dining room
dormers
elaborate cornice returns
end wall
English architecture
English-style timber frame house
entablature portico with pediment
expanded house
extended boxed eave
Federal
First Period
five over four windows
Folk Victorian houses
frame
front porch
full height porches
full-width porches
gable roofs
gambrel roofs
Georgian
girts
Gothic Revival
Greek Revival
Greek Revival door frame
Greek Revival portico
half house
half-houses
half-timbering
High-style Queen Anne
hip roofs
historic preservation
horizontal appearance
horizontal flush boarding
irregularly shaped roofs
Italianate
jigsaw trim
joists
jowled posts
large central hall
large chimneys
linear woodwork
living room
low-rise roof
masonry veneer
McMansions
Mid-Century Modern
mills
Mini McMansion
modillions
molded cornices
molding
moral responsibility
multi-colored paint schemes
multi-pane
multiple surface materials
National Style
natural materials
Neoclassical
Old World Post and Beam
open curved front stairway
open floor plan
original woodwork
ornamental corbels
overhanging eaves
Painted Lady
paired decorative brackets
paired windows and doors
Palladian windows
partial-width porches
patriotism
pegged in place
plates
post and beam construction
post-medieval cross style
Prairie style
principal rafters
prominent cross gables
purlins
Queen Anne
ranch style house
rectangular
roof line
round columns
rounded towers
scenic neighborhood
Second Empire
Second Period
shallow gable roof
Shingle
Shingle Style
shorter elevation
single large roof
slate roofs
sliding glass doors
space-efficient floor plan
spacious living rooms
Starter Castles
Starter Mansion
steep overhangs
steeply pitched gable roofs
steeply pitched roof
steeply pitched roofs
Stick
stone
stone foundation
studs
suburban tract housing
symmetrical structures
symmetrical windows
tall narrow windows
tapered square supports
temple front
textured walls
thatched roof
timber frame
towers and turrets
traditional construction methods
traditional materials
traditional tools
trim details
Tudor Revival
Victorian
Victorian trim
visible roof beams and rafters
water-sawn white oak boards
wattle and daub chimney
wide frieze board
wide window casings
wood frame
worker housing
wrap-around porch
Sources Cited
Historic Ipswich, “Architectural styles,” https://historicipswich.org/architectural-styles/. Last accessed January 24, 2021.
Key Facts
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