List of house styles

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: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 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 Colonial revival 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 Hut Igloo International Italianate Lanai (style) Log house Longhouse Manor house Mansion Mediterranean Revival Style architecture Mobile home Moderne

Neoclassical Architecture Colonial Revival New Old House[citation needed] 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 Saltbox Second Empire Semi-detached Sod dug-out Sod house Souterrain Shingle style Shotgun House Southern plantation Spanish colonial Split-level garrison Split level home, also called split-level ranch Stick style Swiss chalet Tipi Tudor, aka Elizabethan and Jacobean Tudor revival aka Elizabethan Revival, Tudorbethan, Jacobean Revival, Banker's Tudor Victorian house Villa

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• List of house types