1. HOUSING STYLES

2. Agenda 10/3/11
EQ: Distinguish different Housing Styles in American History Warm-up Look at the Venn Diagram on your table and complete it Lecture on Housing Styles

3. Native American Homes
The WIGWAM is made by the eastern woodland Indians who carried reed mats which were wrapped around wooden frames to create a domelike structure.
The TEPEE is one of the most familiar styles that the plains people lived in. It was made of buffalo hides.

4. Native American Homes
The tribes of the North East lived in homes called LONGHOUSES. These homes reached lengths of 100 feet.
The Tribes of the Southwest lived in homes called PUEBLOS. These homes were made of clay that was made into sun dried bricks called ADOBE. Later on Spanish immigrants brought the Adobe bricks and cut stones to the US to use a building materials.

5. English Settlements
Many of the English’s first permanent dwellings were called HALF-TIMBERED homes. The roof was constructed of thatches (Bundles of straw or reeds). Some of the half-timbered houses we covered in either shingles (thin oblonged pieces of wood. Clapboards were boards that laid in over lapping rows that protected the exterior walls .

6. English Settlements Cont..
Cape Cod Style Home
A simple rectangular design, a central chimney and a Pitched roof (often called a Gable Roof) because it forms triangular end walls known as gables. Sometimes Cape Cod homes were built with Gambrel Roofs.

7. English Settlements Cont…
The Saltbox House began as a two story, pitched roof house. The extension built to lengthen the house is called an Ell.
A Garrison House can be recognized by a second story that over hangs or projects from the first story. This over hang was first used on forts to prevent attackers from scaling the walls

8. German and Dutch Settlements
The Dutch and Germans came up for the idea of DORMERS. A dormer is a structure that projects through a steeply sloping roof.

9. Homes of the 18th Century
Georgian style homes were named after king George of England,
had a central chimney or one on each end,
were 2-3 stories and symmetrical, very formal,
the front door was greatly emphasized by pilasters, and pediment.

10. Homes of the 18th Century Cont..
Georgian style homes had many distinguishing features.
Hip Roof Style, pilasters (decorative flattened columns),
Pediment (A triangular arched decoration that sits on top of the door)
Cornice (A decorative strip of molding at the area where the roof and the walls meet).

11. Pilaster (pi LAS ter)

12. The Federal Period Adam Style
Named after two furniture design brothers.
Rectangular design with one or more stories. Some have a center section with a wing on both sides.
Gable roofs . A decorative cornice that often extends across the front and back of the house.
Symmetrically placed windows
A FANLIGHT-a semicircular, round, or oval window with fan shaped panes of glass often above the door or in the pediment.

13. Federal Period Cont… EARLY CLASSIC REVIVAL STYLE
Thomas Jefferson helped developed this style. Very similar to the Adam’s style. The one feature that distinguishes EARLY CLASSIC REVIVAL Style is the PORTICO- tall open porch supported by columns over the front entrance.

14. GREEK REVIVAL STYLE
The Greek Revival Style flourished from about ending around the time of the Civil War. Its features were linked to the temples of ancient Greece. Many Southern Plantations homes were built in this style.

15. Porticos
Tall, open porch, supported by columns over the front entrance

16. Turrets
Small circular tower that extends the entire height of building. Originally used to store grain.

17. Victorian Style Period
Mansard Style
(Sometimes called the Second Empire Style)
*Had French Influence
*Was most popular between
*Most notable feature was the boxlike mansard roof-a roof that has two slopes on all sides, with the lower sloping being steep and the upper slope almost flat.

18. Victorian Period Cont…
Queen Ann Style
*Most fanciful of housing styles
*Had wrap around porches with railings and columns
*Had a variety of decorative word work and Gingerbread-lacy-looking cutout wood trim
*Had a circular tower that extends the entire height of the building

19. Gingerbread examples

20. Beginning of the 20th Century
Prairie Style
Was designed by the famous architect named Frank Lloyd Wright. He believed that architecture should create a natural link between mankind and the environment.
His most notable designs was the Prairie Style home that was characterized by horizontal lines (that reflected the prairie that they sat on), low pitched roof with overhanging, and wide porches.

21. Common Characteristics of Prairie Style Home Plans:
Uniquely American style
Made famous by Frank Lloyd Wright and Prairie School
Low-pitched roof, usually hipped
May be either symmetrical or asymmetrical
Very wide overhanging eaves
Two stories with one story porches or wings
Eave and trim and siding details emphasize horizontal lines
Often with massive square stone or wood porch supports
Smaller windows grouped in geometric patterns

22. Prairie Style

23. Mid 20th Century Styles to Today
RANCH Style( 1935)
Long, low one story house that resembles that rambling one-story houses built by the early settlers of the West. This style of house offers economy in materials, ease of maintenance, and low heating cost.

24. Mid 20th Century Styles to Today
Split-Level
Has three levels of living space each connected by short flights of stairs. One main feature of this style of house is that the entry is separated from the rest of the house.
A-frame
The A-frame is a design in which the gabled roof continues to ground level on two sides.

25. Influences on Housing CLIMATE Earth Sheltered home
Home that is 90% underground. These types of homes are characteristic of ALASKA

26. Influences on Housing CLIMATE Flat Roof Style
This roof style is not appropriate for damp wet climates.
You see this roof style in the desert region of the US.

27. Influences on Housing Tudor Style Home Building Materials (EXTERIOR)
*Brick- Type of exterior building material that requires the least maintenance.
*Stucco- A plaster material made with cement, sand, and lime. Used to build Tutor style Homes.
*Vinyl/Siding- Used to cover, modular and tract homes, and custom built homes.
Tudor Style Home

28. Resources Housing Decisions, pages 156-172
Housing and Interiors, pages
(List of Housing Styles)
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