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Wednesday, September 21. 2011

American architecture: Name the date and style - if possible

I understand that many buildings do not perfectly fit a label, and are often modified over time. A pic I took in Newport:


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Yesterday's quiz was too hard
Yesterdy's American archiecture quiz was was too hard. I honestly had no idea how to categorize it. It was a highly pleasing pastiche, and thus an unfair question. Our expert tells me this: That one was a bit of a mishmash, I imagine.
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Federal style - c. 1820?
#1 Stella on 2011-09-21 11:32 (Reply)
Victorian - 1850/60?
#2 Tom Francis on 2011-09-21 11:50 (Reply)
I crave an observation room / "widow's walk" like that . What a great place to read a mystery book on a dark and stormy night.
#3 Ralph Thayer (Link) on 2011-09-21 12:06 (Reply)
Federal style heavily influenced by Tidewater. Probably built by a New England captain who plied the coast down to Charleston and/or Savanna.

Antebellum period, call it 1830-1850.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
#4 Knucklehead (Link) on 2011-09-21 12:42 (Reply)
I'm sold.
#4.1 DrTorch on 2011-09-21 15:11 (Reply)
I'd call it Pretty Style. Just plain pretty. Looks Southern to me.
#5 Park Slope Pubby on 2011-09-21 12:45 (Reply)
My Style??
#6 D on 2011-09-21 14:30 (Reply)
Being from Canada and working on a lot of historic homes, to me,it has an element of Italian villa in it given the large overhanging eaves and the belvedere. The windows however give it something else I'm not too sure of. [Georgian?]
#7 Paul Kuster on 2011-09-21 16:16 (Reply)
Federal Wedding Cake, from the late 1880's or early 1890's?

I'm not an architecture freak, but I think I remember that style from a History Class, way back in the day.
#8 jefferson101 on 2011-09-21 21:12 (Reply)
Lovely house and I've seen many just like it in the Garden District in New Orleans.

Marianne
#9 Marianne Matthews on 2011-09-21 21:32 (Reply)
Can we get a side view?
#10 MikeinAppalachia on 2011-09-22 02:08 (Reply)
To me it looks like it is an early American rooming or boarding house. The front door opens into the dining and a lounging area with the kitchen close behind and the rest of the house is small individual rooms for let with a community bathroom at the end of the hall. I lived in a similar one for a few months many years ago.
#11 Bob Devine on 2011-09-22 16:27 (Reply)

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