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The architecture of the United States demonstrates a broad variety of architectural styles and built forms over the country's history of over two centuries of independence and former Spanish, French, Dutch and British rule. Architecture in the United States has been shaped by many internal and external factors and regional distinctions.
Colonial architecture in the United States (7 C, 126 P) Colonial Revival architecture in the United States (5 C, ...
America's Favorite Architecture" is a list of buildings and other structures identified as the most popular works of architecture in the United States. In 2006 and 2007, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) sponsored research to identify the most popular works of architecture in the United States.
Architecture in the United States by city (14 C, 17 P) Architecture in the United States by period or style (93 C) Architecture in the United States by state (53 C)
Said to be the oldest continuously inhabited houses still occupied. Buildings have been within the United States since the Mexican Cession of 1848. [2] Acoma Pueblo: On top of a 367-foot (112 m) sandstone mesa in Cibola County: NM 1000 – Built between 1000 and 1200 Residential Said to be the oldest continuously inhabited site in the United ...
Adirondack Architecture; Airplane Bungalow; American colonial architecture; American Craftsman; American Foursquare; American Renaissance; Antebellum architecture; Art Deco in the United States; Asylum architecture in the United States
Federal-style architecture is the name for the classical architecture built in the United States following the American Revolution between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was influenced heavily by the works of Andrea Palladio with several innovations on Palladian architecture by Thomas Jefferson and his contemporaries.
The four national parks and protected areas spanning the border between the United States and Canada contain the world's largest non-polar ice field and numerous large glaciers. The area, shaped by glacial and continuous tectonic activity, comprises different types of habitats, from high mountains above 16,000 ft (5,000 m) to ocean, coastal ...