Arch Styles Project

 

 

 

 

 

The architectural style of the house I created was Colonial Revival. Colonial Revival buildings have symmetrical facades like the one above. They have front door sidelights with a columned porch and have double hung windows with shutters on the front face. Most also have cornice which I decided to include on the home. Most Colonial Revival houses have gabled roofs, but on the one story wings there are flat roofs with balustrades. These homes have fireplaces as well so I added one to both the floor plan and exterior. Even though the exterior is symmetrical, the interior is more open and unsymmetrical. Also, the bedrooms are upstairs in the home and the living area is downstairs in the home, like the floor plan I created.

Architectural Styles - Colonial Revival

·         Characteristics

o   Columned porch or portico

o   Front door sidelights

o   Dormers

o   Symmetrical Facade

o   Double-hung windows, often multi-paned

o   Bay windows or paired or triple windows

o   Wood shutters often with incised patterns

o   Decorative pendants

o   Side gabled or hipped roofs

o   Cornice with dentils or modillions

o   Interior is not symmetrical and more open than historic examples

o   One-story wings, usually with a flat roof and commonly embellished with a balustrade

o   Fireplaces

·         Time Period and History

o   1880 – 1960  

o   Based on Georgian and Federal buildings

o   Postwar (Civil War) decades wanted to build a sense of national unity

o   The Philadelphia's 1876 International Exhibition celebrating 100 years of American independence instigated the Colonial Revival movement and this was promoted again at the Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago

·         Area of the country it is usually found in

            o   Located all over the United States