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2. Folk Victorian - Wikipedia

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   Folk Victorian is an architectural style employed for some homes in the United States and Europe between 1870 and 1910, though isolated examples continued to be built well into the 1930s. [1] Folk Victorian homes are relatively plain in their construction but embellished with decorative trim. [2] Folk Victorian is a subset of Victorian ...

3. Roy Grounds House - Wikipedia

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   The Roy Grounds House, at 24 Hill Street, Toorak in Melbourne, Australia, was designed by Sir Roy Grounds as his own home for his wife Betty and himself. It is celebrated as one of the most outstanding works of modernist domestic architecture of the mid 20th century in Victoria, a time of great experimentation, and one of the most notable designs by Roy Grounds, one of the most well known and ...

4. George Franklin Barber - Wikipedia

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   George Franklin Barber (July 31, 1854 – February 17, 1915) was an American architect known for the house designs he marketed worldwide through mail-order catalogs. Barber was one of the most successful residential architects of the late Victorian period in the United States, [4] and his plans were used for houses in all 50 U.S. states, and in nations as far away as Japan and the Philippines. [4]

5. Central-passage house - Wikipedia

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   Floor plan of a basic central-passage house. The central-passage house, also known variously as central hall plan house, center-hall house, hall-passage-parlor house, Williamsburg cottage, and Tidewater-type cottage, was a vernacular, or folk form, house type from the colonial period onward into the 19th century in the United States.

6. Ranch-style house - Wikipedia

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   The 20th-century ranch house style has its roots in Spanish colonial architecture of the 17th to 19th century. These buildings used single-story floor plans and native materials in a simple style to meet the needs of their inhabitants. Walls were often built of adobe brick and covered with plaster, or more simply used board and batten wood siding.

7. Vanna Venturi House - Wikipedia

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   The house was also specifically designed for her antiques and reproduction furniture, which she had collected over 50 years. [8] Robert lived in the house until a few months after his 1967 marriage to Denise Scott Brown. Vanna Venturi lived in the house from 1964 though 1973, often lecturing visiting architects on architecture and the architect.

8. Sears Modern Homes - Wikipedia

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   In 1908, Sears issued its first specialty catalog for houses, Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans, featuring 44 house styles ranging in price from US $360 (equal to $12,208 today) – $2,890 (equal to $98,003 today). The first mail order for a Sears house was filled that year.

9. List of house styles - Wikipedia

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   9 Victorian and Queen Anne. 10 American. ... This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., ... Modern and Post-modern. Art Deco.