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Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements architecture, Vernacular wood frame [2] 5: Greenfield Hill Grange No. 133: 1897 built 2008 NRHP-listed 1873 Hillside Rd. Fairfield, Connecticut: Queen Anne style architecture [2] 5.5
Mission Revival architecture at San Diego State University, California. Mission/Spanish Revival is an amalgam of two distinct styles popular in different but adjacent eras: the primarily late-19th-century Mission Revival Style architecture and early-20th-century (and later) Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. The combined term, or the ...
Vernacular architecture (also folk architecture [1]) is building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance. It is not a particular architectural movement or style, but rather a broad category, encompassing a wide range and variety of building types, with differing methods of construction, from around the world, both ...
A gablefront house, also known as a gable front house or front gable house, is a vernacular (or "folk") house type in which the gable is facing the street or entrance side of the house. [1] They were built in large numbers throughout the United States primarily between the early 19th century and 1920.
Julius Chambers Nellie Bly. The muckrakers would become known for their investigative journalism, evolving from the eras of "personal journalism"—a term historians Emery and Emery used in The Press and America (6th ed.) to describe the 19th century newspapers that were steered by strong leaders with an editorial voice (p. 173)—and yellow journalism.
Most dwellings within the district are rural examples of late-19th-century and early-20th-century architecture. There are several houses built in Victorian, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman styles, however the majority of houses are vernacular building forms with decorative elements of these popular national styles.
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 Eli R. Cooley House in Racine, Wisconsin, early 1850s. American Greek Revival was an architectural style popular in the United States and Canada from about 1800 to 1860. The unique American interpretation of a larger Greek Revival of the era allowed many rural and vernacular interpretations to flourish, and these further influenced the ...