ARCHITECTURE IN CP 1929

•  Facade dominated by full-height porch with roof support by classical columns.
•  Facade shows symmetrically balanced windows and center door.
•  Unadorned roof line.
•  Sparing application of ornamentation.
•  After 1925, very slender, unfluted (often square) columns used.
 

• Central dormers with hipped roof.
• Colonnaded porch either full-or partial-width and may be included under the same roof or have a separate, flat, or shed roof.

 
 

•  Doorways are accentuated, normally with decorative crown supported by pilasters, or extended forward and supported by slender columns to form entry porch. Doors often have sidelight or even overhead fanlights.
•  Symmetrically balanced windows and center door.
•  Windows are double-hung sashes, usually with multi-pane glazing.
•  Exterior veneer pre-1920, wood.  After 1920, masonry was used.
 

•  Generally Cape Cod cottages are loosely patterned after early wooden folk houses usually with addition of Georgian or Adam-inspired doorways.

•  Steeply pitched roofline.
•  Side-gables (usually).
•  Large, elaborate chimneys, commonly crowned by decorative chimney pots.  Placed in prominent locations on the front or side of the house.
•  Tall, narrow windows, usually in multiple groups.

This style expanded explosively in popularity during the 1920s and 1930s.

•  One story houses with low-pitched roofs.
•  Broad, rambling facades loosely based on colonial precedents.
•  Made possible by automobile replacing street cars and buses after WWII.

•  Originated in the 1920s and flourished in the 50s and 60s, and still popular today.
 

•  Roof pitches are low or intermediate, rather than steep, as in the preceding Tudor style.
•  Usually, not always, a large chimney with at least one front-facing gable.
•  Built of wood, brick, stone or a mixture of these wall-cladding materials. 

•  Box-shaped with one or two stories and two rooms deep.
•  Windows are strictly symmetrical, typically larger, numerous and highly decorated.
•  Doorways are somewhat elaborate front entrances, with an entablature above front door.
•  Rooflines are hipped, gabled, or gambrel.
•  Most long-lived style of American buildings.