Featured Series: Style 101
The Tudor Revival style seems to recall a romanticized image of village architecture and the picturesque beauty of England in the time of the Tudors (1485 to 1603) but in fact is very different from true Tudor period architecture. When the revival style became popular in America in the early 20th century, American architects introduced features that […]
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The Queen Anne style originates in late 19th-century England and was named by Richard Norman Shaw. It is unclear why he selected the term “Queen Anne” since the style’s aesthetic is not from the reign of England’s Queen Anne but rather from earlier Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
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The Minimal Traditional style often gets overlooked as a “non-style” but is in fact a deliberate style designed to be simple, economical, and mass-producible. These cost-effective, small houses came into vogue during the Great Depression since they could be built with Federal Housing Administration insured home loans. During World War II, Minimal Traditional houses could […]
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