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In addition to general architectural influences, this progressive change in style resulted from several other factors. In the 1850s, the abolition of tax on glass and bricks made these items cheaper yet a suitable material and the coming of the railway allowed them to be manufactured elsewhere, at low cost and to standard sizes and methods, and brought to site.
Barrington Hall is one classic example of an antebellum home.. Antebellum architecture (from Antebellum South, Latin for "pre-war") is the neoclassical architectural style characteristic of the 19th-century Southern United States, especially the Deep South, from after the birth of the United States with the American Revolution, to the start of the American Civil War. [1]
An example of residential architecture in the Old West End District (Toledo, Ohio), a well preserved historic district full of Victorian architecture The extent to which any one is the "largest surviving example" is debated, with numerous qualifications.
The most prized architectural aspect of the house was the chimney. Large and usually made of brick or stone, the chimney was very fashionable at this time, specifically 1600–1715. During the Tudor period in England, which lasted up until around 1603, coal became the popular material for heating the home.
Polite architecture; Prairie Style 1900–1917 US; Pueblo style 1898–1990s; Shingle Style 1879–1905 New England; Queen Anne Style architecture 1870–1910s UK and US; Queenslander 1840s–1960s; Ranch-style 1940s–1970s US; Repoblación architecture 880s–11th century; Spain; Regency architecture; Richardsonian Romanesque 1880s US; Rococo
The house boasts three large, built-in closets, which was highly unusual in the 1800s. The downstairs closet features storage shelves and space for wooden racks to hang cloaks and hats.
A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and expensive architectural works today, though most were more utilitarian, working farmhouses.
The Cape Cod style homes were a common home in the early 17th of New England colonists, these homes featured a simple, rectangular shape commonly used by colonists. [3] Dutch Colonial structures, built primarily in the Hudson River Valley , Long Island , and northern New Jersey , reflected construction styles from Holland and Flanders and used ...