1. Homes Across America

2. Neocolonial

3. Interesting facts about a Colonial home
A Neocolonial, Neo-Colonial, or Builder's Colonial house is not colonial at all. It was not constructed during America's colonial times. Neocolonial is a modern, style that loosely borrows ideas from the past constructed in the late 20th century through present time. Key features may include a rectangular shape, 2 to 3 stories, center entry-hall floor plan, living areas on the first floor and bedrooms on the upper floors and a temple-like entrance.

4. Queen Ann Home

5. Interesting facts about a Queen Anne home
Victorian Queen Anne homes often have towers, turrets, onion domes, wrap-around porches, front-facing gables, bay windows, shingles, or other fanciful details such as arched windows. Some are made in wood, others in stone or brick masonry.

6. Cape Cod Style

7. Interesting facts about a Cape Cod home
The Cape Cod house plan is designed for practicality and comfort in a harsh climate. Originally developed in New England in response to harsh winters and the need for simple construction techniques, Cape Cod houses can be found anywhere residents want clean, symmetrical lines. Often featuring wood shingles or clapboard siding, Cape Cod homes utilize double-hung windows with shutters, with little roof overhang and a minimum of exterior ornamentation. The symmetrical design is mirrored in the interior, which often features a center hall layout. When present, the second floor is usually a half-story under the roof gable; dormer windows provide light and effective air circulation.

8. Log Cabin

9. Interesting facts about a Log Cabin
Log Homes have been built in North America for over 500 years. It was the log house that sheltered the Pilgrims from the weather when they first came to America. Early loggers and trappers built log homes for basic shelter. In the early days of log home building, only local materials were used, such as oak, maple, ash, cedar, and some pine. The log cabin actually marked the beginning of American architecture.

10. Front Hall Colonial

11. Interesting facts about a Front Hall Colonial
The Colonial home is one of the most popular styles of home in the United States, according to "Better Homes and Gardens." The Colonial style evolved from European influences, which started in the 1600s. Many colonists emigrated from Europe and brought those influences with them. Over time the Colonial style became distinct, recognizable for its use of geometry, and different regions of the United States added their own tweaks to provide relief from the climate. 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.

12. Craftsman/Bungalow

13. Interesting facts about a Bungalow
The Bungalow is an all American housing type, but it has its roots in India. In the province of Bengal, single-family homes were called bangla or bangala. British colonists adapted these one-story thatch-roofed huts to use as summer homes. The space-efficient floor plan of bungalow houses may have also been inspired by army tents and rural English cottages. The idea was to cluster the kitchen, dining area, bedrooms, and bathroom around a central living area.

14. Contemporary Solar Home

15. Interesting facts about a Contemporary Solar home
The techniques of solar building design were practiced for thousands of years, by necessity, before the invention of heating and cooling systems. Fully developed solar architecture methods were first used by the Greeks and the Chinese who oriented their buildings toward the south to provide light and warmth. In the United States, interest in solar building design was greatly stimulated by the 1973 oil crisis.

16. Greek Revival Home

17. Interesting facts about a Greek Revival home
Inspired by Greek architecture and democracy, the Greek revival style flourished in America in the 1830s and '40s. Tall columns and pediments, painted plaster exterior, horizontal transoms, symmetrical shape, bold moldings and embellishments are all key to the style. Large and imposing, this home style is commonly found on large estates and historic plantations.

18. Second Empire Home

19. Interesting facts about a Second Empire home
As its name implies, the Second Empire architectural style can be traced to France, specifically to the reign of Napoleon III,  As public architecture, the Second Empire style was meant to exude character and a sense of permanence. Residences designed in this style were, therefore, generally large and built for the affluent homeowner. The style was most popular in the Northeast and Midwest, less common on the Pacific coast, and rare in the South.  Decorative details included iron cresting on the roof, heavily bracketed cornices, quoins, and balustrades. The general effect is monumental and ornate, appropriate to the style's Napoleonic roots.

20. Gothic Revival Home

21. Interesting facts about a Gothic Revival home
The Gothic Revival style was often chosen for country homes and houses in rural or small town settings. The Gothic Revival style is part of the mid-19th century picturesque and romantic movement in architecture, reflecting the public’s taste for buildings inspired by medieval design. The most commonly identifiable feature of the Gothic Revival style is the pointed arch, used for windows, doors, and decorative elements like porches, dormers, or roof gables. Other characteristic details include steeply pitched roofs and front facing gables with delicate wooden trim called vergeboards or bargeboards.

22. Italian Villa

23. Interesting facts about an Italian Villa home
Built more out of a desire for ornamentation than functionality, the Italianate style is loosely modeled after the villas of Italy. Most of the homes were built between the mid-to-late 1800s. Decorative corbels, window cornices, doorways and porches can easily identify an Italianate home, as can the rounded windows, columned entryways and rectangular windows.

24. Saltbox

25. Interesting facts about a Saltbox home
A saltbox is a building with a long, pitched roof that slopes down to the back, generally a wooden frame house. A saltbox has just one story in the back and two stories in the front. The flat front and central chimney are recognizable features, but the asymmetry of the unequal sides and the long, low rear roof line are the most distinctive features of a saltbox, which takes its name from its resemblance to a wooden lidded box in which salt was once kept. The saltbox originated in New England, and is an example of American colonial architecture. One theory holds that the saltbox form was popularized by Queen Anne's taxation of houses greater than one story. Since the rear of the roof descended to the height of a single-story building, the structure was exempt from the taxes.