'Home Styles' Category

The greatest of the Modern/International-style homes are truly work of arts that have come into creation when a wealthy owner commissioned an architect to produce a masterpiece. They first appeared in the United States during the 1930s and 40s. One of the best examples of a true International-style home is the late architect Philip Johnson’s Glass House which is a see-through box of glass with a steel frame that he built for himself in 1949 in New Canaan, Connecticut. [...] Read More

Split-level homes built mainly in the 1950s, 60s and 70s are an outgrowth of the ranch-style home. They usually feature a staggered set of three levels, each only a half flight of stairs away from the other. One single-story side typically holds the living room, dining room and kitchen. [...] Read More

Many Tudor-style homes were built in the first half of the 1900s as the first ‘streetcar suburbs’ sprang up outside major cities thus allowing the financially comfortable to escape the city yet keep their in-town jobs. The hallmarks are heavy exposed half-timbering in the frame, steeply pitched roofs, tall and narrow windows as well as prominent chimneys (not to mention the prominent hearths at the base of those chimneys. [...] Read More

The original detached houses and townhouses built in the Victorian/Gothic style date back to the latter half of the 1800s. The most striking element of these homes is that they are teeming with ornamentation, with arches and frills made of wood or stone extending from the front door to the eaves beneath the roof, even further up to, perhaps an elaborate finial topping the peaked roof of a tower. [...] Read More

Colonial-style homes have been built in the USA since before the Boston Tea Party back in the early days of the 1600s and 1700s as the name implies. The style has never really gone out of favor. One of its nicest variations is the center-hall colonial which has a roomy area inside the front door for receiving guests. [...] Read More