Styles and Types
Art Deco Style
Arts And Crafts Style
Beaux-Arts Classicism
Beaux-Arts Style
Bungaloid Houses
Bungalow Houses
Byzantine Revival Style
Central Passage Foursquare Houses
Central Passage House
Charleston House
Chateauesque Style
Chicago Style Office Buildings
Classical Revival Style
Classically-Inspired Tall Office Building
Eclectic
Eclectic Style
Eclectic Town Houses
Egyptian Revival Style
Fachwerk
Flounder Houses
Gable Front Foursquare Houses
Gable Front Houses
Galleried House
Georgian Plan
German Vernacular House Types
Gothic Revival Style
Greek Revival Style
Greek Revival Town Houses
Hall-and-Parlor Houses
High Style Houses
High Style Town Houses
I-House
International Style
Italian Villa Style
Italianate Town Houses
Italianate Vernacular Town Houses
Jacobethan Revival Style
Late Gothic Revival Style
Late Romanesque Revival Style
Late Victorian Design
Mission Style
Modern Gothic Style
Moderne Style
Narrow Front Houses
One-Room Houses
One-Room Row
Prairie Style
Queen Anne Cottages
Queen Anne Style
Queen Anne Town Houses
Raised Basement Houses
Renaissance Revival Style
Renaissance Revival Town Houses
Richardsonian Romanesque Style
Romanesque Revival Style
Romanesque Revival Town Houses
Rural House Forms
Second Empire Style
Second Empire Town Houses
Shingle Style
Shotgun Houses
Side Gallery
Story-And-A-Half One-Room House
Streamlined Gothic Style
Sullivanesque
Tall Office Buildings
The Back-To-Back Houses
Town Houses
Tudor Revival Style
Two-Room House
Vernacular Houses
Vernacular Residential Buildings
Vernacular Town Houses
Victorian Shotgun Houses
Glossary of Terms
arcade
arches
archivolt molding
ashlar
asylums
automobile showrooms
aviation
awning window
balcony
Baltimore chimney
baluster
balustrade
bank
bank buildings
basket arch
battlement
bay
bellcast roof
belt course
blind
block
board-and-batten siding
boxed cornice
brackets
breweries
bullnose brick
business district commercial buildings
buttress
capital
cartouche
casement window
cast iron buildings
catslide roof
cemeteries
central business district cast iron
central business district masonry buildings
civil rights activism
clapboards
clerestory
Colonial Revival Style
column
commercial structures
compound arch
concrete block houses
concrete bridges
concrete house types
concrete tall office building
corbel table
corbelling
Corinthian order
cornice
course
Coursed Limestone
crenellation
crocket
cruciform plan
cultural institutions
cupola
dentils
department store
detached houses
diaper pattern
Doric order
dormer
doublehung window
double-loaded corridor
eaves
elevation
enclosed stair
enframement
engaged column
entablature
entrance gates
facade
factories
false mansard roof
fascia
Federal Style
Federal Town Houses
Federal Vernacular Town Houses
filling stations
first arrivals
fishscale shingles
fixed window
flanking
flat arch
flat-iron building
flats
Flemish bond
foliated
Foursquare Houses
frame construction
freight & passenger stations
French Architecture
French colonists
frieze
front gambrel colonial houses
fur trade
gable
gable roof
gallery
gambrel roof
generating plants
German Immigration
gingerbread trim
gold rush
half-timber framing
head
header
helm roof
hierarchical
higher education
high-rise apartment buildings
hipped roof
historic preservation
home rule
honeycomb brick
hood
hospitals
hospitals and social service buildings
hotels
impost
incised ornament
industrial and manufacturing buildings
industrial buildings
industrial sash window
intake towers
interstate highways
Ionic order
jack arch
joint
keystone
label
libraries
light
light court
lintel
low-rise apartment buildings
mansard roof
merlon
military affairs
military ties
modillion
molded brick
molding
motif
mouse hole
movie palaces
mullion
multi-family buildings
multi-family flats
multi-family walk-ups
multi-light window
muntins
museums
music
neighborhood bank buildings
neighborhood commercial buildings
neighborhood movie theaters
Neo-Classic Revival Style
Neo-Tudor Revival Style
newspapers & publishing
nogging
notable architects
other commercial buildings
paired window
Palladian window
parapet
parking garages
party politics
pediment
peristyle
pier
pilaster
pillow capital
pinnacle
pointed arch
political crossroads
portal
portico
private schools
projecting bay
property type
Protestants
public art
public baths
public education
public housing
public markets
public schools
pyramidal roof
quoins
railroad architecture
railroad stations
railroad tunnel
reinforced concrete houses
religious architecture
restaurants
return
roofs
rose window
rough-cut
round arch
roundel
rubble stone
rusticated stone
sanitation
scroll-work
segmental arch
segregated housing
segregated schools
shaped parapet
shaped parapet single family houses
sheathing
sidelights
social clubs
spandrel
spirelet
steel suspension bridge
stoop
story
street car stations
street car structures
street railways
stretcher
string course
stucco
surround
symmetrical
taverns
temple front
tenement
terra cotta
the auto era
The Great Migration
the Jewish community
The Roman Catholic Church
theaters
tower
tracery
transept
transom
transportation
transportation structures
trefoil
truncated hip roof
turned
turret
Tuscan order
two-family flats
Two-story Victorian Houses With Side Entry
tympanum
U.S. Custom House
U.S. Post Office
urban renewal
utilities structures
variegated brick
veneer
verandah
warehouses
water
water table
water towers
windows
wing wall
writers
zoo structures