List of House Styles

The term "house style" also means the body of conventions followed by a publisher. See house style.

This is a list of styles in residence construction.

This list predominately refers to American architectural styles. Such styles as Tudor, Palladian, Georgian can only be found in their true form in Europe. Many older American houses started as one style, but later additions and renovations can disguise if not completely mask their origins. A Federal house may end up with Greek Revival and/or Queen Anne veneers. It may also end up with vinyl-siding hiding all aspects of style except the basic structure. To muddy the waters further, revival styles sometimes have revivals. Many homes will not fit into a single style category. The contemporary “McMansions” – large, developer-built houses of varied appearance – might be considered an adulterated revival of the Queen Anne style. The Queen Anne style was, itself, an adulteration of previous styles — a 19th-century version of Post-Modern. Thus this list is not definitive, and lacks full representation of earlier prehistoric and historic times:

  • A-frame
  • Adirondack Architecture
  • American Craftsman
  • American Foursquare
  • Antebellum architecture
  • Arcachon villa
  • Art Deco
  • Bay-and-gable
  • Broch
  • Bungalow
  • California bungalow – sometimes two-story, technically not a bungalow; in Australia, almost invariably single storey
  • Cape Cod
  • Castle
  • Catslide cottage
  • Chalet
  • Châteauesque
  • Colonial
  • Central-passage house
  • Colonial revival
  • Conch house
  • Creole cottage
  • Dingbat (apartment building style)
  • Dutch Colonial
  • Farmhouse
  • Federal
  • Federation (Australian Style, Circa 1901)
  • French Colonial
  • French-Canadian colonial
  • Georgian Colonial
  • Garrison
  • Georgian
  • Gothic revival
  • Greek Revival Style architecture
  • Hall and parlor house
  • Hut
  • Igloo
  • I-house
  • Indian veranda style
  • International
  • Italianate
  • Log house
  • Longhouse
  • Manor house
  • Mansion
  • Mar del Plata style
  • Mediterranean Revival Style architecture
  • Mid-Century modern
  • Mobile home
  • Moderne
  • Neoclassical architecture
  • New Old House
  • Neo-eclectic
  • Octagon
  • Pacific lodge
  • Palladian
  • Patio home
  • Populuxe
  • Portuguese Baroque
  • Post-modern
  • Prairie style
  • Pueblo style
  • Queen Anne
  • Queenslander
  • Rammed earth house
  • Ranch
  • Richardsonian Romanesque
  • Rumah Gadang (traditional style of the Minangkabau in Indonesia
  • Rustic architecture
  • Saltbox
  • Second Empire (architecture)
  • Semi-detached
  • Sod dug-out
  • Sod house
  • Souterrain
  • Shingle style
  • Shophouse (combination of residential and business space developed in Southeast Asia)
  • Shotgun House
  • Southern plantation
  • Spanish colonial
  • Split-level garrison
  • Split level home, also called split-level ranch
  • Stone Ender
  • Storybook house
  • Stick style
  • Swiss chalet
  • Tipi
  • Tudor, aka Elizabethan and Jacobean
  • Tudor revival
    • aka Elizabethan Revival, Tudorbethan, Jacobethan, Banker's Tudor
  • Victorian house
  • Villa

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