Home Styles

Identifying features:

• Asymmetrical facade
• Stucco wall surfaces
• Low-pitched roof, usually with little or no eave overhang
• Arches above doors and principal windows or beneath porch roofs
• Ornamental effects include patches of molded decoration, stained or otherwise darkened wood, and wrought-iron grillwork

Identifying features:

• Facade dominated by one or more prominent cross gables, sometimes with half-timbering
• Massive chimneys, commonly crowned by decorative chimney pots
• Tall, narrow windows, commonly in multiple groups and with multiplane glazing
• Steeply pitched roof, usually side-gabled
• Entry has rounded or flattened, pointed arch

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Identifying features:

• Unpainted wood shingles covering entire exterior
• Prominent roofs, either steeply-pitched or with long slopes
• Rough-surfaced stone or field rubble used as contrasting materials
• Turrets and verandas integrated into overall design
• Extensive porches

Identifying features:

• Low, horizontal silhouette
• Wide overhanging eaves extending from main house to emphasize horizontal lines
• Broad, low-pitched roof
• Massive square porch supports
• Walls of light-colored brick or stucco and wood
• Rows of small casement windows; stained-glass accents in stylistic floral or geometric designs
• Walls at right angles; no curves
• Large, plain rectangular chimney

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Identifying features:

• Low-pitched, gabled roof (occasionally hipped) with wide, un-enclosed eave overhang
• Roof rafters usually exposed
• Decorative beams or braces under gables
• Porch support bases extending to ground level (without break at level of porch floor)
• Porch supports usually squared and sometimes slanting inward

Identifying features:

• Front door accentuated with decorative crown and/or entry porch
• Facades with symmetrically balanced windows and centered door
• Windows with double-hung sashes, usually with multiplane glazing in one or both sashes
• Windows frequently in adjacent pairs or triples

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Identifying features:

• Asymmetrical one-story design
• Low-pitched roof, with the hipped version the most common
• Moderate or wide eave overhang
• Partially enclosed courtyards or patios
• Large picture windows
• Built of local materials (wood, stucco, brick, or stone)
• Shaped like an L or U and surrounds a patio
• Large expanses of glass

Identifying features:

• Steeped roof
• Story-and-a-half with single-gabled ends
• Multi-paned windows
• Ridge-centered chimney

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Identifying features:

• Square, symmetrical shape
• Hipped-roof
• Main entrance emphasized with columns, pilasters, and broken pediment
• Decorative crown over front door
• Decorative flattened columns on each side of door
• Paired chimneys
• Windows with double-hung sashes, typically with six to twelve small panes per sash
• Cornice emphasized by decorative moldings; most commonly tooth-like dentils

Identifying features:

• Gambrel roof
• Flaring eaves covering porch
• Wide overhangs
• Shed-type or gable-type dormers
• Cubic rooms
• Rounded windows in gabled attic area

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Identifying features:

• Partially submerged basement with living quarters
• Low-pitched gable roof
• Asymmetrical
• Large windows; double-hung, sliding, and picture
• Sliding glass doors leading to patio
• Lack decorative detailing, aside from decorative shutters and porch-roof supports

Identifying features:

• Huge front verandas and large French doors
• Stunning veranda
• Asymmetrical
• Regular rectangular floor plan

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