House Styles
This style has a low pitch roof, large overhanging eaves, large picture window on facade, and is generally one story.
What is Ranch?
This is a small one story home with an overhang roof and covered porch
What is a bungalow?
This is a semicircular, round or oval window with fan shaped panes of glass.
What is a fanlight?
These are bundles of reeds or straw used for roofing in early English homes
What is thatch?
This is a small house built with blocks of snow by the Inuit
What is an igloo?
This is the clay from which _____ bricks were made to create pueblos.
What is adobe?
This house style has a low pitched roof, and overhanging eaves of the Ranch house but added a second story at mid-height and shows a variety of wall-cladding materials, often mixed on a single house.
What is a split-level house?
This style has wall cladding and roofing of continuous wood shingles, asymmetrical facade, and commonly has extensive porches.
What is Shingle?
This is Lacy looking cut out wood trim.
What is gingerbread?
These are structures projecting through a steeply sloping roof.
What are Dormers?
This is a cone-shaped tent usually of skins used as a home especially by American Indians of the Great Plains
What is a tipi?
This house style has low-pitched roofs, close eaves, and front-facing gable entry.
What is Minimal Traditional?
This style has a steeply pitched roof, facade dominated by one or more prominent cross gables, decorative half-timbering, and tall, narrow windows.
What is Tudor Revival?
This style has a low-pitched roof, usually hipped with wide overhanging eaves and is two stories with one story porch.
What is Prairie?
This is a tall open porch supported by columns, over the front entrance
What is a portico?
This is a roof with four sloped sides
What is a hipped roof?
This is made of wooden frames covered with woven mats and was built by Eastern Woodland tribes
What is a wigwam?
These are Triangular end walls created by pitched or gable roofs
What are Gables?
This style has porches with spindlework detailing or flat jigsaw cut trim, a symmetrical facade, and cornice-line brackets.
What is Folk Victorian?
This style has an accentuated front door with a decorative pediment supported by pilasters, doors have overhead fanlights or side lights, and windows are in adjacent pairs.
This is an extension built on to a home at right angles to the length of the home.
What is an Ell?
This is a two sided roof with a steep angle
What is a pitched roof or gable roof?
These are curved at the top and built from wooden poles fastened with leather straps, with bark, hides, woven grasses and sticks covered the poles.
They were built by Indigenous tribes of the Northeastern United States
What is a Longhouse?
These are houses built on top of each other into cliffs and caves.
What are pueblos?
This style has a steeply pitched roof, with steep cross gables, no eave or trim beneath gable, and a one story porch supported by flattened Gothic arches.
What is Gothic Revival?
This style has a distinctive Mansard roof with dormer windows on steep lower slope and molded cornice normally bound the lower roof slope.
What is Second Empire?
This is a decorative strip where the wall and roof meet.
What is a cornice?
This is a roof with two slopes on all sides
What is a Mansard Roof?
This is a large, usually rectangular house constructed of timber planks, built and used by Native American tribes in the Northwest Coast from Northern California to British Columbia
What is a Plank House?
This house style is identified by a flat roof without ledge at roof line, windows set flush with outer wall, smooth, unornamented wall surfaces, and an asymmetrical facade.
What is International?
This style has a steeply pitched roof of irregular shape with dominant front-facing gable, asymmetrical facade, and often has a tower.
What is Queen Anne?
This style is identified by smooth wall surfaces (stucco), a flat roof, horizontal grooves or lines in walls, a horizontal balustrade elements, an asymmetrical facade, and curved corners.
What is Moderne?
These are Decorative flattened columns & the Triangle above doors. TWO WORDS
What are pilasters and pediments?
This is a roof with two slopes on each side, the upper being flatter than the lower.
What is a Gambrel roof?
This is a one-room Navajo home with a door facing east and a smoke hole in the roof, but no windows. It is created by laying wooden poles or logs on the ground in a circle in layers on top of each other.
What is a Hogan?
This house style has a low-pitched gable roof with wide unenclosed eave overhang, exposed roof rafters, decorative beams under gables, and porches supported by tapered square columns.