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An example of the Eastlake Style in Glendale, California. The Eastlake movement was a nineteenth-century architectural and household design reform movement started by British architect and writer Charles Eastlake (1836–1906).
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 ]
For this 1900s farmhouse galley kitchen, the homeowner went with a timeless cornflower blue paint for the ceiling and trim, while a green reproduction wallpaper covers the walls.
The American Foursquare or "Prairie Box" was a post-Victorian style, which shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright.. During the early 1900s and 1910s, Wright even designed his own variations on the Foursquare, including the Robert M. Lamp House, "A Fireproof House for $5000", and several two-story models for American System-Built Homes.
A list of these styles most commonly includes Second Empire (1855–85), Stick-Eastlake (1860–c. 1890), Folk Victorian (1870–1910), Queen Anne (1880–1910), Richardsonian Romanesque (1880–1900), and Shingle (1880–1900). As in the United Kingdom, examples of Gothic Revival and Italianate continued to be constructed during this period ...
The main style point was a large breezeway (instead of a hallway) through the center of the house to cool occupants in the hot southern climate. [1] [3] A dogtrot house built with a fully enclosed second floor is known as a "saddle bag". Architects continue to design variants of dogtrot houses using modern materials. [4] [dead link ]
6000BC–1000AD • 1000–1750 • 1750–1900 • 1900–Present Architectural style • Architecture timeline This timeline shows the periods of various architectural styles in a graphical fashion.
Nicknamed "Old State. War and Navy", it is one of the most famous, prominent and largest examples of Second Empire architecture in the United States and the world. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada is an architectural style that was popular in both nations in the late 19th century between 1865 and 1900.