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Old-House Journal
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HOUSING TYPES & STYLES
Learn about styles of old houses in these articles from Old House Journal.
American Houses, Spanish Styles
While English buildings were the font of the Colonial Revival, Iberian- influenced houses seeded parallel styles in the West and Southwest.
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Architectural Styles: Colonial Charm
Just outside Washington, D.C., the Virginia waterfront town of Alexandria manages to preserve its architectural heritage amid a bustling contemporary setting.
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Architectural Styles: Italianate
Paralleling America's Industrial Revolution, the Italianate offered homeowners an aesthetic that was at once romantic and practical.
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Dallas Stars
Dallas has more to offer than just the fictional Ewing family - it's also a hotbed of historic homes in a range of styles. The Spanish Eclectic house opening our story on clay roof tiles, designed by local architect Clifford Hutsell for his own use in the 1920s, is but one grand eary 20th-century example.
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Germanic Houses in the New World
From Pennsylvania farmsteads to Texas stonework, German-speaking immigrants melded old and new building traditions to play a subtle but significant role in the evolution of American houses.
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Have You Seen This House?
While many early mail-order homes often sprung up side by side, making them easy to find and identify, our historians have tracked down one plan that's proved puzzlingly exlusive to locate in the field. We'll tell you how you can help them solve this mystery.
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Modern for the Masses
How progressive architects and builders brought high-concept houses to the postwar burbs.
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Ranch Days
Ranch houses, those omnipresent postwar dwellings, just hit the mid-century mark, and in doing so, garnered historic status and a new troop of admirers.
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Refreshing Rooms-in-the-Round
Restoring and decorating circular spaces requires making the most of what you've got--and having a few tricks up your sleeve.
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Stick Style
Novel carpentry creates the first Modern house of the Victorian age.
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