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Second-floor rooms on the right side of the house feature doorways into a central hallway. The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was so named in the 1930s by Fred Kniffen, a cultural geographer at Louisiana State University who was a specialist in folk architecture.
Pages in category "1920s architecture in the United States" The following 158 pages are in this category, out of 158 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Buildings and structures completed in 1920 (20 C, 133 P) Buildings and structures completed in 1921 (20 C, 130 P) Buildings and structures completed in 1922 (21 C, 115 P)
Lola Maverick Lloyd House; James Henry and Ida Owen Mays House; McAllister House (Seiling, Oklahoma) McBean Cottage; Noah McCarn House; Elmer V. McCollum House; McCurry-Kidd House; Johnson Camden McKinley House; McLean House (Little Rock, Arkansas) Memphis Tennessee Garrison House; Mira-Nila House; Morris Levenson Three-Decker; Myers House ...
C. Cadiz Downtown Historic District; California Theatre (Pittsburg, California) Camp Four (Fort Smith, Montana) The Cenotaph; Chatham Naval Memorial; Chattri, Brighton
Gilded Age mansions were lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack ...
The term "International Style" was first used in 1932 by the historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock and architect Philip Johnson to describe a movement among European architects in the 1920s that was distinguished by three key design principles: (1) "Architecture as volume – thin planes or surfaces create the building’s form, as opposed to a solid mass"; (2) "Regularity in the facade, as ...
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