These beautiful historic places have interesting architecture styles. Here is a quick explanation for the architecture language included with the sites.
Colonial Revival: This style features a symmetrical façade, usually with two or three stories. The house is rectangular with brick or wood siding and has simple details. It was a popular style from 1876 until the mid-1950s.
Greek Revival: This style was popular from 1825 to 1860. American architecture borrowed the Greek style because many believed the Greeks to have the spirit of democracy. This style features a symmetrical shape, elaborate, decorated corners, and an entry porch with columns.
English Vernacular Revival: This style was popular in the 1920s and 1930s. The features of this house are asymmetrical, steeply pitched, gable roof (the triangle formed by a sloping roof), and usually have masonry walls.
Queen Anne: This style became popular in the 1880s and 1890s. The style is recognized by its
steep roof, asymmetrical shape, one-story porch that extends across one or two sides of the house, round or square towers, and bay windows. Contrary to its name, this style has little to do with the real Queen Anne.
Folk Victorian: This style developed between 1870 and 1910. Its features are a square, symmetrical shape, brackets under the eaves of the house for design purposes only, and porches with decorative trim.
Italianate: This style was popular in the 1860s. The features are a flat roof, symmetrical rectangular shape, arches above windows and doors, wide, overhanging eaves with brackets and a square cupola (ornamental structure placed on the top of a larger roof or dome).