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Pages in category "Houses completed in 1840" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 367 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Barrington Hall is one classic example of an antebellum home.. Antebellum architecture (from Antebellum South, Latin for "pre-war") is the neoclassical architectural style characteristic of the 19th-century Southern United States, especially the Deep South, from after the birth of the United States with the American Revolution, to the start of the American Civil War. [1]
During the 1830s and 1840s, American home builders started interpreting the European Gothic Revival architecture, which had elaborate masonry details, in wood to decorate American timber frame homes. This was also known as Carpenter Gothic.
Residential buildings completed in 1840 (2 C, 3 P) S. ... Pages in category "Buildings and structures completed in 1840" The following 56 pages are in this category ...
The Italianate style was popularized in the United States by Alexander Jackson Davis in the 1840s as an alternative to Gothic or Greek Revival styles. Davis' design for Blandwood is the oldest surviving example of Italianate architecture in the United States, constructed in 1844 as the residence of North Carolina Governor John Motley Morehead.
Through the 1840s, front porches and any decoration were primarily designed in the restrained Federal manner. The Greek Revival style was also used during the 1840s and 1850s. The I-house was also adapted to Gothic Revival and Italianate styles during the mid-19th century. [ 9 ]
The Millford Plantation, South Carolina, ca. 1840. The style was employed in ecclesiastical, institutional, and residential buildings. Virtually all the buildings in the style are characterized by the use of columns or pilasters, usually from the Greek orders. "Bilateral symmetry is the rule," with the main portion of the buildings being "block ...
Possibly dating back to the French and Indian Wars (1754–1763), used as barracks for Hessian mercenaries during the American Revolutionary War. On the grounds of the Maryland School for the Deaf. [101] McGulpin House: Mackinac Island: MI c. 1780 Residential Oldest residential home in Michigan. Built in French Canadian style. Biddle House ...