18th Century Housing

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18th Century Housing

• Mrs. Wagner
• Fashion Interior Design

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Georgian Period

• Georgian Style King of England George I, II
  III
• 1700 - 1780
• Characteristics
• - 2-3 Stories
• - Formal Symmetrical Design
• - Gable or Hip Roofs roof with four sloped
  sides
• - Large windows with small panes
• - Pilasters decorative flattened columns on
  each side of the doorway
• - Topped with a Pediment triangular or arched
  decoration
• - Decorative panels in door

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• Cornice decorative strip at the area where the
  roof and wall meet
• Central Chimney or at each end
• Contrasting Materials red brick with white trim
• Square or rectangular wings were added
• Interior
• - Plaster ceiling
• - Wood Paneling/wall paper
• - Fireplace with mantel focus pt.
• - Central Staircase

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Pediment Pilasters
Pilasters
Pediment
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Federal Period

• 1770-1830
• Finished American Revolution turned away from
  English style
• Sought architectural styles that expressed
  Americas newly won freedom and independence
• Named federal after the new government
• 2 styles Adam Early Classical Revival
• Adam borrowed from English but Americanized
• Early Classical thoroughly American but share
  many of the same characteristics

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Adam Style

• 1780-1820
• Named after English architects James and Robert
  Adams took Georgian features and combined with
  elements from Greece Rome
• Features
• - Rectangular Design 1 or 2 stories may have
  wings
• - Gable Roof
• - Decorative Cornice

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• Symmetrical Windows many panes
• Fanlight semicircular, round or oval window
  with fan-shaped panes of glass is often above
  the door or in the pediment
• Decorative interiors plaster and wood carvings
  in classical design on walls and ceilings
• Mantels decorative

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Adam Style
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Early Classical Revival Style

• 1770-1830
• Ancient Rome design
• Thomas Jefferson architect, President,
  statesman inventor
• Designed Monticello buildings for University of
  Virginia
• Used for lots of government buildings
• Similar to Adams Style

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• Rectangular Shape symmetrical windows
• Fanlight
• Portico Tall, open porch, supported by columns
  over the front entrance topped with a triangle
  pediment
• Porch may be built on foundation and extends to
  roof

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Georgian Style
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Adam Style
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Early Classical Style
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Roof Styles

• High/Low Pitched Gable
• - 18th
• - Immigrant
• - Georgian
• - Adam
• - 19th
• - Greek Revival
• - Gothic Revival
• - Queen Anne

• - 20th
• - Tudor
• - Craftsman
• - Contemporary
• - Chateausque
• - Ranch

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• Gambrel
• - 18th Immigrant
• - 19th Dutch
• - 20th Colonial Revival
• Hip
• - 18th Georgian Early Classical
• - 19th Italianate
• - 20th Colonial Revival, Mission, Prairie,
  Craftsman, Ranch

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• Mansard
• - 19th Mansard Style
• Flat
• - 18th Immigrant
• - 19th Italian Renaissance
• - 20th International Contemporary