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Picture Dictionary of House Styles in North America and Beyond

From Jackie Craven, About.com

What style is your house? Browse our photo gallery for the most popular housing styles in North America. Click on the pictures below for larger images along with facts, diagrams, building plans, and other helpful resources. For more houses, also see our House Style Guide.

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  1. 1870 - 1910: Folk Victorian Folk Victorian House in New Hampshire
  2. 1880 - 1910: Queen Anne Victorian Queen Anne Homes often have towers, turrets, and wrap-around porches.
  3. 1860 - 1880s: Eastlake VictorianThese fanciful Victorian houses are lavished with Eastlake style spindlework.
  4. 1880 - 1900: Richardsonian RomanesqueThese grand stone houses have broad roman arches.
  5. 1874 - 1910: Shingle StyleRustic Shingle Style houses shunned Victorian fussiness.
  6. 1876 - 1955: Colonial Revival Colonial Revival houses romanticized North America's colonial past.
  7. 1885 - 1925: NeoclassicalNeoclassical homes romanticize the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome.
  8. 1885 - 1925: Beaux ArtsBeaux Arts Mansion
  9. 1890 - Present: Tudor Revival Heavy chimneys and decorative half-timbering give Tudor style houses a Medieval flavor.
  10. 1890-1940: Cotswold Cottage Variation on the Tudor Revival style
  11. 1890 - 1920: Mission Revival House StyleSpanish Colonial mission churches inspired the design of these stucco homes.
  12. 1893-1920: Prairie StyleThe Frederic C. Robie House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1909.
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