Housing Styles

Tudor Housing

They may have overlapping gables, parapets, and patterned brick or stonework. Tudor style houses often feature striking decorative timbers as well.

                                                                      Neo-Classical

This style of a house has symmetrical and well-proportioned, and usually has centered doors, balanced windows, and matching wings.











Bungalow housing

this house is a small house or cottage usually having a single story and sometimes an additional attic story.
                                                                                                       Cape Cod Housing

a style of cottage developed mainly on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, typically a rectangular one- or one-and-a-half story wooden cottage covered by a gable roof and having a central chimney.











       Colonial Housing

the homes are symmetrical, or square, and feature an entry door that can be found in the middle of the front of the home. The style also features two windows on either side of the entry door, with five windows on the second floor, with one directly above the entry door. Other characteristics include paired chimneys, a medium pitched roof to provide drainage in rainy weather and a stairway that is directly behind the entry door and leads to a hallway that bisects the middle of the second floor.











                                                                                                                     Dutch Colonial
 



 The early houses built by settlers were often a single room, with additions added to either end  and very often a porch along both long sides. Typically, walls were made of stone and a chimney was located on one or both ends. Common were double-hung sash windows with outward swinging wood shutters and a central double Dutch door.














Neo-Electic

Neo-eclectic architecture combines a wide array of decorative techniques taken from an assortment of different periods of historical house styles. It is a response to the clean unadorned modernist styles, such as the Mid-Century modern and Ranch-style house that dominated North American residential design










                                                                                                        Prairie Housing

 An early-twentieth-century-style house with a long, low roof line, continuous row of windows, and an unornamented exterior. Designed to satisfy the physical and psychological needs of the inhabitants, it is unlike the traditional concept of a house that is a box subdivided into smaller boxes (rooms), each with some doors and windows




              

                 Queen Anne

A nineteenth-century-style house that is unique-looking, multi-story, and irregular in shape with a variety of surface textures, materials, and colors. The term Queen Anne has come to be applied to any Victorian house that cannot be otherwise classified.









                                                                                                              Ranch-Split

 A traditional Ranch Style house is only one story, but a Raised Ranch raises the roof to provide extra living space.