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Architectural Styles

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Architectural Styles

Architectural Styles
Gothic Revival & Carpenter Gothic

1830-1890


655 Hughes Street

HABS Drawing - Ewing


Character-Defining Features

  • Asymmetrical plan and vertical silhouettes
  • Small projecting central wing
  • Square tower

Examples

654 Hughes Street

513 Franklin Street

33 Perry Street


Paint Color - Recommendations

Dark and rich palette that evokes a sense of medieval architecture




Romanesque Revival

Renaissance Revival

Italianate

Exotic Revival

Second Empire

Stick Style

Queen Anne

Shingle Style

Colonial Revival

Tudor Revival

Spanish Revival

Bungalow Style